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Abstract 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. Keywords: Russiaagriculturedroughtfood securitygrain exportslivestock herdgrain harvestfood consumptiongrain yieldsagricultural policyfood trade
Stephen K. Wegren (Sat,) studied this question.