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What is Agricultural Land

Handbook of Research on Globalized Agricultural Trade and New Challenges for Food Security
A land devoted to agricultural production which includes arable land, permanent cropland, and permanent pastures.
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Food Security Through Rational Land Management: Innovative Aspects and Practices
Yulia Elfimova (Stavropol State Agrarian University, Russia), Anna Ivolga (Stavropol State Agrarian University, Russia), and Ivan Ryazantsev (Stavropol State Agrarian University, Russia)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-1042-1.ch007
Abstract
Food security is challenged by the growth of the world population, intensification of agricultural production, depletion of scarce agricultural and environmental resources, and the consequent introduction of innovations to farming processes, one of which is land management. In this chapter, the authors discuss the role of innovative aspects and practices of land management in the establishment of food security and the provision of rational, sound, and effective administration of scarce land resources. In the case of Russia and other countries, the authors justify the necessity of rational land management focused on the innovative way of development of agricultural production.
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Detrimental Impact of Plastic Outcome on Agriculture: Biggest Threat to Environment
Agricultural land is typically land devoted to agriculture, the systematic and controlled use of other forms of life particularly the rearing of livestock and production of crops to produce food for humans. It is thus generally synonymous with farmland or cropland, as well as pasture or rangeland.
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