Agrarian alternative for Yamal: Agriculture and indigenous population

Аграрная альтернатива Ямала: сельское хозяйство и коренное население

Gusakov, Timur (Гусаков, Тимур) ()
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Russian Peasant Studies, 2022, vol. 7, 106-150

Abstract: The current social-economic situation in Russia poses new challenges for industries, agriculture, and services. One of these challenges is the search for alternative sources of food supply in regions and the strengthening of food security under the import substitution policy. In agriculture, the emphasis is placed on the development of both main branches and those previously considered additional. At the same time, there are attempts to diversify economies of the single-industry regions in order to ensure their ‘sustainable’ development. One of the regions representing all the above trends is the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Region. Federal and regional authorities strive to reduce its budget dependence on the oil and gas rent and to invest in the traditional sectors of polar agriculture such as reindeer breeding and fishery. The article is based on the results of the author’s field studies in the summer of 2021 and describes the social-economic situation in Yamal. The author pays particular attention to agriculture and indigenous peoples of Siberia, to the history and main trends in the development of the nomadic and semi-nomadic groups of Yamal — to identify promising directions and main barriers for the development of regional agriculture.

Keywords: regional development; human geography; Siberian indigenous nations; migration; oil-producing regions; agriculture; reindeer breeding (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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