The given pie chart illustrates the prominent causes which make agricultural land less productive.

The tabular data depicts the reasons affecting the three distinct regions of the world in the year
1990. The data is calibrated in percentage.

Overall, it can be clearly observed that over-grazing and deforestation were the prime reasons for
land degradation compared to over-cultivation which was marginally behind. Noticeably, Europe was
ahead in deforestation, over-cultivation and also in total land degradation compared to other
regions.

Analysis of the pie graph reveals that more than a third of the agricultural land was destroyed by
over-grazing, following a similar trend, deforestation was 5% behind compared to over-grazing.
Nearly, less than a third was accounted for over-cultivation, and just 7% were registered for other
methods which caused land degradation.

Secondly, the statistics for different regions reveal that Europe noted higher proportion of
deforestation, over-cultivation and total land degradation compared to other regions which
accounted for 9.8%, 7.7% and 23%, respectively, barring over-grazing where Oceania which took the
lead and recorded 11.3%. Moreover, Oceania and North America registered less than two per cent of
deforestation which registered 1.7% and 0.2%, respectively. A similar pattern was noted in the total
land degraded where Oceania accounted for 13% and North America for 5% in 1990. However, 0%
was observed in over-cultivation in Oceania and 3.3% was recorded in North America.