Is Russia the Emerging Global ‘Breadbasket’? Re-cultivation, Agroholdings and Grain Production

Oane Visser, Max Spoor and Natalia Mamonova

Europe-Asia Studies, 2014, vol. 66, issue 10, 1589-1610

Abstract: Expectations of Russia becoming a global ‘breadbasket’ have been nurtured by its rise to the top group of global wheat exporters, the abundance of abandoned land, assumed yield gaps and the apparent ‘success’ of agroholdings. It is argued here that becoming a global breadbasket is hindered by substantial costs of re-cultivating abandoned land, management and financial problems of megafarms and agroholdings, lack of infrastructure for exports and increased domestic demand for feed grains as input for the meat sector. Furthermore, as Russian wheat production is extremely volatile it might increase global price volatility, rather than contributing to global food security.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2014.967569

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