The science and political initiatives focus is not only concerning agricultural intensification for food security and human development. The prevention of land degradation and loss is important, and a new land-use technological platform is needed for human well-being and the ecosystem service coupling. An adverse change in the soil quality of the steppe terrain under the standard agriculture is revealed, and the dynamics of the ecosystem service is assessed. The results indicated that the standard land-use practice deteriorates stability of the soil cover, failing to ensure the soil productivity and the ecosystem services in a dry terrain. For land degradation prevention and soil-environmental services refinement, a new transcendental Biogeosystem Technique (BGT*) technological platform was developed. The BGT* is capable of providing long-term, sustainable land-use management. The BGT* methodology includes intra-soil milling, intra-soil pulse continually discrete watering, and intra-soil waste recycling. The BGT* is a basis for future political initiatives in land-use management to prevent land degradation and loss, to increase soil productivity, and to provide soil-environmental services.

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Root rot is a disease of plants, which have weak plant resistance to pathogens (from seed or soil inoculum) and environmental factors. Depending on the cultivation zone, the degree of saturation with one crop, agricultural technologies and varieties, the species, racial, strain composition of pathogens is constantly changing. The manifestations of root rot at an early stage of plant development are especially harmful. Healthy seed is a contribution to successful production, but stressful factors often attack plants with infectious pathophlora in the soil. The article discusses the use of combined soil mixtures as a stimulating factor in increasing the stress resistance of plants with the further production of healthy plants and seed material, which is a necessary reality of modern scientific technologies.

The widespread development of human civilization leads to the improvement of production potential in any of its manifestations. The question arises in which aspect: positive or negative? The harmonization of human activity with the natural components of the geographical envelope is the true achievement of civilization, to which it is necessary to strive and develop.

The Lower Volga regional natural complex has a heterogeneity of the relief, which, combined with the climate feature, leads to the degradation of soil covers. Disturbed soil cover with loose rocks is a fast mechanism for the formation of a gully-beam system. Natural natural conditions combined with human activity have led to catastrophic consequences of the withdrawal of land from land use. To prevent the development of these forms, it is necessary to conduct a study of each formation with tracking in a time period.