Yuliana Griewald

Russian agri-food system in a context of social-ecological change

An institutional analysis


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ISBN:

978-3-8440-5663-1

Series:

Institutioneller Wandel der Landwirtschaft und Ressourcennutzung - Institutional Change in Agriculture and Natural Resources
Herausgeber: Prof. Dr. Volker Beckmann and Prof. Dr. Konrad Hagedorn
Greifswald und Berlin

Subseries:

Allgemein

Volume:

Keywords:

resource economics; Russian agriculture; social-ecological change; Tyumen region; institutional economics; agriculture; agricultural resources; agricultural land management; grain marketing; land use; stakeholder participation; institutions; Russia; post-Soviet agriculture; sustainable land management; scenarios

Type of publication:

Thesis

Language:

English

Pages:

176 pages

Figures:

13 figures

Weight:

240 g

Format:

21 x 14,8 cm

Bindung:

Paperback

Price:

28,00 € / 35,10 SFr

Published:

December 2017

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Abstract

Post-Soviet institutional change, climate change, and the self-sufficiency orientation of the present Russian policies confront the rural areas of Russia with the immense challenges of finding a development path that can endure in the long run. This book explores some aspects of the current social-ecological change by focussing on the institutions in the contemporary agri-food system. In particular, two distinct action situations are contrasted: agricultural land management, which continues to be influenced by the state, and grain marketing, characterised by the early state withdrawal. In-depth institutional analysis was conducted based on qualitative research in Western Siberia. It reveals that the current institutions in both land management and agricultural marketing pose challenges for the long-term development of agricultural production. To explicate the diversity of future implications stemming from a particular development path, four stakeholder-supported scenarios of future land use are proposed. The scenarios show that adaptation in both the social and the environmental dimension of the agri-food system will be required to successfully tackle the current and the upcoming challenges.