Excessive use of land for agriculture

Conversion means habitat altered by human activities to such an extent that it no longer supports most characteristic native species and ecological processes.

1. Unsustainable agricultural development
2. Excessive land usage

1. Cultivation of marginal agricultural land

1. Vulnerability of world genetic resources
2. Soil degradation
3. Rival claims for conservation land
4. Environmental insecurity
5. Deforestation

1. Destruction of wetland environments
2. Defective land use planning

1. Food insecurity

1. Soil mismanagement
2. Deliberately unused farm fields

1. Using agro-ecosystems in conservation management
2. Reducing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations
3. Land use planning
4. Improving animal feed products
5. Ensuring comprehensive system of protected areas
6. Developing sustainable land use policy
7. Developing agriculture
8. Decreasing atmospheric nitrous oxide concentrations
9. Converting land to crops
10. Controlling growth of farm land

1. Inappropriateness
2. Excess
3. Uncontrollability