Globally, farmland abandonment has been a major phenomenon for eco-environmental and social landscape changes in the mountain regions. Farmland abandonment led to endangering the capacity of mountain ecosystems as well as variety of eco-environmental processes that play a pivotal role in regional as well local level eco-environment security.
arable land
Arable land, in agricultural statistics, is land worked (ploughed or tilled) regularly, generally under a system of crop rotation