THE STRUCTURE AND FINANCIAL DIMENSIONS OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN EU COUNTRIES



Long-term agricultural land-cover change and potential for cropland expansion in the former Virgin Lands area of Kazakhstan

During the Soviet Virgin Lands Campaign, approximately 23 million hectares (Mha) of Eurasian steppe grassland were converted into cropland in Northern Kazakhstan from 1954 to 1963.As a result Kazakhstan became an important breadbasket of the former Soviet Union.However, the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 triggered widespread agricultural aban

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