The article discusses the concept of natural capital, its accounting for determining the country’s wealth, and assessing its depletion due to the growing export of wheat. The article uses the example of reversible and irreversible losses of water, carbon, and nitrogen in the soils of Russia’s chernozem regions when growing wheat for export to demonstrate the actual losses of natural capital. The article presents preliminary calculations of their annual irreversible losses, assuming an average annual export of 28 million tons of wheat from Russia. The article discusses the environmental consequences of maintaining such volumes of cross-border movement of wheat.
Tishkov et al. (Thu,) studied this question.