Soil loss on the arable lands of the forest-steppe and steppe zones of European Russia and Siberia during the period of intensive agriculture

Golosov, Valentin; Collins, Adrian L.; Dobrovol’skaya, N. G.; Баженова, О.И.; Ryzhov, Yu. V.; Sidorchuk, Aleksey

doi:10.1016/j.geoderma.2020.114678

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“…So, a higher percentage of people linked with agriculture (75.3%) are concerned with sustainability as compared with other areas. The sector of agriculture is particularly important for this matter, since agriculture can be one of the great contributors for environmental impacts of the food chain, particularly in what concerns the intensive agriculture and animal production [56][57][58]. Alternatively, more sustainable production methods have been gaining importance in past decades, such as organic farming [59,60].…”

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Environmental Issues as Drivers for Food Choice: Study from a Multinational Framework

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This work intended to explore some motivations that influence people’s eating habits towards sustainability. This was an observational, cross-sectional study, carried out by questionnaire survey on a non-probabilistic sample of 10,067 participants from 13 countries (Argentina, Brazil, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, Romania and United States). Results indicated that people prefer fresh local foods from the season, being important because it allows transportation and storage to be reduced, which in many cases implies refrigeration systems and consequent energy expenditure. Although people avoid food waste at home, the awareness for the waste at restaurants still needs to be improved. Consumers seem to prefer foods that have been produced and packed in sustainable ways but still give importance to the package—understandable for food products. The results also indicated significant differences in the food choice motivations between groups for all sociodemographic variables tested (age, sex, marital status, education, professional area, living environment and country), but the association was high only for variable country. Additionally, a tree classification analysis allowed to identify the relative importance of the influential variables on the sustainable food choices, with country being the most important, followed by age and sex. Additionally, discriminant function analysis allowed establishing a model for the relation between country and six variables accounting for preservation of biodiversity, respect for life, save natural resources, save energy, reduce industrial pollution and minimal packaging. Although with some limitations, this study brings valuable insight into some aspects linked with sustainable food choices on a number of countries and how people shape their food choices according to some sustainability issues.

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Environmental Issues as Drivers for Food Choice: Study from a Multinational Framework

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“…In the Mediterranean region, there is evidence that deforestation during the Neolithic triggered shallow landslides, a process that became particularly extensive after the Middle Ages (García-Ruiz et al, 2016). An assessment of the evolution of landslide occurrence during the last 120 ka in N Spain (González-Díez et al, 1996, 1999, and its contribution to the displacement of soil, surface deposits and rocks, showed a significant increase of landslide mobilization rate, about one order of magnitude during the period covered. They detected two periods of significant human influence, one around 6-5 ka BP, coinciding with the settlement of Neolithic populations in the region, and the other starting around 1800 coinciding with the onset of the Industrial Revolution.…”

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Denudation and geomorphic change in the Anthropocene; a global overview.

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“…The increase in soil erosion is a direct consequence of agricultural exploitation and threatens soil stability, quality and its productivity (Rickson 2014;Guzmán et al 2015;Alewell et al 2017;Golosov et al 2021). Long-term and intense erosion removes topsoil from the upper part of a slope and deposits the eroded material at the toe of the slope, thus leading to irreversible changes in the natural structure of those soils and their corresponding horizons (Świtoniak et al 2016;Zádorová and Penížek 2018;Golosov et al 2021). One of the materials most susceptible to erosion are loess deposits (Licznar et al 1981;Yang et al 2006;Zhang et al 2018;Poręba et al 2019).…”

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Tracing erosion rates in loess landscape of the Trzebnica Hills (Poland) over time using fallout and cosmogenic nuclides

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Purpose Loess landscapes are highly susceptible to soil erosion, which affects soil stability and productivity. Erosion is non-linear in time and space and determines whether soils form or degrade. While the spatial variability of erosion is often assessed by either modelling or on-site measurements, temporal trends over decades to millennia are very often lacking. In this study, we determined long- and short-term erosion rates to trace the dynamics of loess deposits in south-western Poland. Materials and methods We quantified long-term (millennial) erosion rates using cosmogenic (in situ 10Be) and short-term (decadal) rates with fallout radionuclides (239+240Pu). Erosion processes were studied in two slope-soil transects (12 soil pits) with variable erosion features. As a reference site, an undisturbed soil profile under natural forest was sampled. Results and discussion The long-term erosion rates ranged between 0.44 and 0.85 t ha−1 year−1, whereas the short-term erosion rates varied from 1.2 to 10.9 t ha−1 year−1 and seem to be reliable. The short-term erosion rates are up to 10 times higher than the long-term rates. The soil erosion rates are quite consistent with the terrain relief, with erosion increasing in the steeper slope sections and decreasing in the lower parts of the slope, while still maintaining high values. Conclusions Soil erosion rates have increased during the last few decades owing to agriculture intensification and probably climate change. The measured values lie far above tolerable erosion rates, and the soils were found to be strongly imbalanced and exhibit a drastic shallowing of the productive soils horizons.

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Soil loss on the arable lands of the forest-steppe and steppe zones of European Russia and Siberia during the period of intensive agriculture

Cited by 41 publications

References 33 publications

Environmental Issues as Drivers for Food Choice: Study from a Multinational Framework

Environmental Issues as Drivers for Food Choice: Study from a Multinational Framework

Denudation and geomorphic change in the Anthropocene; a global overview.

Tracing erosion rates in loess landscape of the Trzebnica Hills (Poland) over time using fallout and cosmogenic nuclides

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