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Russia’s soil cover amid global challenges

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The soil resources of Russia’s natural and agricultural landscapes are exposed to extremely unfavorable effects with difficult environmental consequences. The situation is aggravated by errors in agrarian transformations, inconsistent land rotation, and the resistance of production to scientifically justified schemes of adaptive landscape agriculture and intensity-differentiated agricultural technologies. The author of this article, based on a paper delivered at a meeting of the RAS Presidium, considers the model and functions of Russia’s land service, as well as the objectives of state accounting and monitoring of the state of the soil cover.

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    Andrei Leonidovich Ivanov

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Original Russian Text © A.L. Ivanov, 2015, published in Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, 2015, Vol. 85, No. 11, pp. 984–992.

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Ivanov, A.L. Russia’s soil cover amid global challenges. Her. Russ. Acad. Sci. 85, 495–503 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S101933161505007X

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