Climate Change and its Impact on Land Degradation

Anthropogenic climate change is recognized as one of the major factors contributing to land degradation. Land degradation means reduction in the potential of the land to produce benefits from a particular land use under a specified form of land management and is considered to be one of the major problems of the world in recent times. Land degradation encompasses change in chemical, physical andbiological property of the soil. Such a change in soil properties alter and reduce the soil ability to sustain a peculiar quality and quantity of plant growth. 

Soils are also crucial to food security and change in climate has threatened the food security by affecting the soil property. Understandings of the effects are required to know how climate and soils interact and to understand changes in soil due to change in climate. At regional, ocean basin and continental scales, numerous long-term changes in climate have been noticed. These admit changes in ocean salinity, far-flung changes in precipitation amounts, changes in Arctic ice and temperatures, changes in wind patterns, change in the intensity of tropical cyclones and changes in heat waves and heavy precipitation. Read more..................