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Geography of Droughts and Food Problems in
Russia (1900-2000)
Report of the
International Project on Global Environmental Change and Its
Threat to Food and Water Security in Russia
February 2004
Genady Golubev and Nikolai Dronin
Department of Geography, Moscow State University,
Moscow, Russia
Published by the
Center for Environmental Systems Research,
Kassel, Germany
Geography of Droughts and Food
Problems in Russia (1900-2000)
Report A 0401, February 2004
Center for Environmental Systems Research,
University of Kassel, 34109 Kassel, Germany
Phone: +49- (0) 561 804 3266
Fax: +49- (0) 561 804 3176
Internet:
http://www.usf.uni-kassel.de
Please cite as:
Golubev, G. and Dronin, N. (2004) Geography of Droughts and Food Problems in
Russia (1900-2000), Report No. A 0401. Center for Environmental Systems
Research, University of Kassel, Kurt-Wolters-Str. 3, 34109 Kassel, Germany.
http://www.usf.uni-kassel.de.
Front and back cover:
Original photograph from Nikolai Dronin
Contents
Contents
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Acknowledgements
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Introduction
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Chapter 1.
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Geography of Russian agriculture
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1.1. Crop composition
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1.2. Division into “Consumption” and “Production” regions
...........................................10
1.3. Weather variability and agricultural production
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Chapter 2.
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Why has Russian agriculture been vulnerable to weather variability?
.........19
Chapter 3.
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Droughts and food crises in Russia
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Chapter 4. Conclusions
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To what extent should Russian agriculture be changed in order to
................25
cope with climate change?
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References
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Acknowledgements
We would like to express our thanks to the colleagues from the Center for Environmental
Systems Research of the University of Kassel, headed by Prof. Dr. Joseph Alcamo, who invited us
to participate in the project on “Modeling Climate Change and Its Impacts on Agriculture in
Russia”. Our research would not have been possible without this project. We are also grateful to
the team of the Open Society Archives of the Central European University (Budapest, Hungary)
for their permanent support in obtaining invaluable information and data. Thanks are due Barbara
Lübkert-Alcamo for editing this report with financial support of the Institute for Integrated
Systems Analysis (IISA).
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