The more people that are migrating to urban areas (urbanization) needs more crops for the citizens which causes more people to grow crops and without crop rotating or methods to prevent soil degradation. More likely answer is that more industry grows in the urbanized areas and they have poor management of the soil which causes soil degradation<span />
Iraq it has boundarys that are arbitrarily drawn, with no real common bondage among the people.
All the answers are correct look at a map.