Overgrazing typically increases soil erosion.
With continued overutilization of land for grazing, there is an increase in degradation. This leads to poor soil conditions that only xeric and early succession… See more

Overgrazing is used as an example in the economic concept now known as the Tragedy of the Commons devised in a 1968 paper by Garrett Hardin. This cited the work of a Victorian economist who used as an example th… See more

There have been overgrazing consequences in the region Sahel region. The violent herder–farmer conflicts in Nigeria, Mali, Sudan and other countries in the Sahel region have been exacerbated by land degra… See more

• Land degradation
• Desertification See more