Urbanization Human beings tend to locate where the resources are. A NASA scientist talks about how most centers of population are located on good farmland. But still for the most part the general trend is that we are urbanizing our best agricultural land. He says that urbanization is affecting our planet's ability to feed us. This is a natural process.
Human beings are like any other biological entity.
We tend to locate where the resources are, and our centers of population grow out from that point. Imhoff uses satellite images to study human impacts on the planet. He says farmland losses are especially noticeable at the local level, where economic development is seen as more important than agriculture. If you look at it locally it's very true that the best soils are usually used for development. And so that's a concern, especially since populations are increasing and the need for agricultural productivity is high.