[A] The belief that all degraded agricultural land can be restored to its original fertility merely through increased application of chemical fertilisers.

[B] The assumption that land without trees or dense vegetation is necessarily barren, degraded or unproductive, leading to inappropriate afforestation of naturally treeless ecosystems.

[C] The tendency to classify land as barren solely on the basis of its low annual rainfall and consequently exclude it from conservation programmes.

[D] The belief that forests growing on fertile agricultural land necessarily reduce agricultural productivity and should therefore be cleared.