If you take a photo of the agriculture around here, you can see all the land around the site. That's what it used to look like, beautiful pristine land and this is what it's turned into, a massive disaster that will have to be resolved somehow.

The most common reason is that they simply don't want to pay school fees and taxes.

I couldn't even guess (at the number).

To spend part of the revenue from land use fees on agriculture is a practical way to increase investment in the countryside.

It is possible, I think, to say that... a Christian agriculture [is] formed upon the understanding that it is sinful for people to misuse or destroy what they did not make. The Creation is a unique, irreplaceable gift, therefore to be used with humility, respect, and skill.

Land degradation did not start with chemical agriculture. But chemical agriculture offered new tools for annihilation.