<Li> Action in the land's capacity to provide resources for human livelihoods . This can be measured from a base line of past land use . </Li> <Li> Loss of biodiversity: A loss of range of species or ecosystem complexity as a decline in the environmental quality . </Li> <Li> Shifting ecological risk: increased vulnerability of the environment or people to destruction or crisis . This is measured through a base line in the form of pre-existing risk of crisis or destruction . </Li> <P> A problem with defining land degradation is that what one group of people might view as degradation, others might view as a benefit or opportunity . For example, planting crops at a location with heavy rainfall and steep slopes would create scientific and environmental concern regarding the risk of soil erosion by water, yet farmers could view the location as a favourable one for high crop yields . </P>

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