Strategies being used in Sub-Saharan Africa to reverse land degradation include <span>reduced use of chemical agents. These chemical agents are not only harmful for the soil but also for the immediate environment where agriculture occurs. Organisms that depend on the soil are also affected, as a result people are now finding more organic ways to lessen the effects of agriculture to the land.</span>
Coca eradication is an example of a strategy promoted by the United States government in 1961 as part of its "War on Drugs." It consists of eliminating the cultivation of coca, the drug crop whose leaves are used in the manufacture of cocaine.
