Abstract Eastern Europe and Central Asia is a major food producer and exporter. Almost a
quarter of world wheat exports come from the region, and especially from Kazakhstan …

The article analyses the contradiction between the high biomass resources and low level of
bioenergy utilization in Russia. The article presents the total estimation of bioenergy …

Further cropland expansion might be unavoidable to satisfy the growing demand for land-
based products and ecosystem services. A crucial issue is thus to assess the trade-offs …

Russian agriculture has shown stable growth since 1999. The food trade balance steadily
improves and the share of imported food in retail markets is decreasing due to the …

Much of the world's temperate grasslands have been converted to croplands, yet these
trends can reverse in some regions. This is the case for the steppes of northern Kazakhstan …

Abstract During the Soviet Virgin Lands Campaign, approximately 23 million hectares (Mha)
of Eurasian steppe grassland were converted into cropland in Northern Kazakhstan from …

Cropland expansion and intensification are the two main strategies for increasing food
production. Here, we investigated the spatio-temporal patterns of global cropland expansion …

The activation of nitrogen and phosphorus for food production has caused the transgression
of the safe operating space of the Earth system. However, countries differ in the use of their …

The recent rise in agricultural commodity prices and the expectation that high price will
persist have triggered a wave of farmland expansion in regions where land resources are …

Cropland area has long been used as a key indicator of food security. However, grain yield
is not solely controlled by the area of the cropland. Therefore, we proposed a new indicator …