Food Security and Russia's 2010 Drought

作者：Stephen K. Wegren · 发表于：Eurasian Geography and Economics · 年份：2011 · DOI：10.2747/1539-7216.52.1.140 · 被引用次数：209 · 研究领域：Russia and Soviet political economy、Post-Communist Economic and Political Transition、Regional Socio-Economic Development Trends

An American specialist on Russia's agricultural sector examines the progression and impact of that country's 2010 drought (the worst in a half-century), leading to a grain harvest one-third smaller than originally forecast. A particular focus is on the country's grain reserves and the government's response to drought in such areas as grain export policy and maintaining the size of the domestic livestock herd, responses which the author argues are conditioned by the drive for food security, a concept that has dominated the political discourse in tandem with resurgent economic nationalism during the post-Soviet period.