It is a degenerative process that reduces the current or future capacity of soils

Soil degradation already affects a quarter of the world's population. Erosion grows and affects 20% of agricultural land, 15% of grasslands and 30% of forests.
1.5 billion people depend on these soils to survive. Erosion brings with it hunger, migration and damage to the ecosystem.

soil acidification due to intensive industrialization and the burning of fossil fuels

Soil erosion is a discontinuous and slow phenomenon that consists of the mobilization of landslides from the surface and that, in the long term, generates changes in the appearance of the land.

destroys the structure and collapses or diminishes the pores, which limits the space
for the storage or movement of air and water in the soil

occupation of land for the creation of housing, infrastructure and equipment.

The concentration of these contaminants in the soil above certain levels entails a large number of negative consequences for the food chain and as a consequence for human health as well as for all types of ecosystems and other natural resources.