The pie chart below shows the main reasons why agricultural land becomes less productive.

The table shows how these causes affected three regions in the 1990s

Information is presented by a pie chart which illustates the causes of worldwide land degradation and the table
shows the causes of land degradation by region in the 1990s. Overall, it can be clearly seen that overgrazing was
responsible for more global land degradation than the other causes and Europe made up by far the highest
proportion of degraded land compared to North America and Oceania.

Turning to the first main feature, according to the pie chart, in the 1990s, overgrazing accounted for the highest
percentage (35%) closely followed by deforestation (30%) with overcultivation making up 28% and other causes
representing a modest 7%, which was precisely five times lower than category of overgrazing.

Turning to another main point, the table highlights that Europe made up the highest ratio of degraded land (23%).
Deforestation made up 9.8%, clearly way higher than North America (0.2%) and Oceania (1.7%). Europe also
accounted for 7.7% overcultivation and 5.5% overgrazing. It is interesting to note that Oceania making up a total
of 13%, recorded a rate of 11.3% just for overgrazing, which was clearly the leading cause of degraded land in
that region. A final point is that the region of North America made up the lowest ratios in all three causes
recording a very modest 5.0%, which was almost five times lower than Europe and just over two times lower than
Oceania.

Mark Cruwys IELTS Trainer

Sample Answer for Task 1