what is the linkage between agricultural activities, biodiversity loss and sediment and nutrient fluxes into water systems and the overall impact of environmental degradation on the survival of humankind?

Agricultural production is a predominant activity of the majority of the rural poor in Sub-Saharan Africa. However, due to land degradation as a result of inappropriate farming techniques, there is continued loss of Biodiversity and soil fertility through soil and water erosion and these eroded materials (sediments and nutrient fluxes) end up choking water systems, this is evident in the network of rivers that feed into lake Victoria in East Africa.

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