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Excessive grazing to an extent that the land is damaged.
The law was intended to reduce overgrazing by cattle, but its impact would be to further curtail land for Africans.
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Overexploitation — Atlantic cod stocks were severely overexploited in the 1970s and 1980s, leading to their abrupt collapse in 1992.[1] Overexploitation, also called overharvesting, refers to harvesting a renewable resource to the point of diminishing returns.… … Wikipedia
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Desertification — Lake Chad in a 2001 satellite image, with the actual lake in blue. The lake has shrunk by 95% since the 1960s.[1] Desertification is the degradation of land in drylands … Wikipedia
