Eurasian Wheat Belt and Food Security

VOLUME EDITORSSERGIO GOMEZ Y PALOMA is a senior researcher at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission. He studied Agricultural Sciences and Agricultural Economics at the universities of Bologna, Milano and Napoli (Italy), and Agro Paris Tech (France). Before joining the JRC he was a Lecturer of development economics at Roskilde University, Denmark. His main research interests include agricultural policy analysis, agricultural-micro economics, and development economics.SÉBASTIEN MARY is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics at DePaul University. He completed his PhD at the University of Aberdeen. Previously, he has held positions at the University of Aberdeen and at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre. His research interests focus on agricultural policy, rural development and food security.STEPHEN LANGRELL is a senior researcher at the DG for Health and Food Safety of the European Commission. Previously he was senior researcher at the Joint Research Centre (JRC). His research interests focus on agricultural policy, plant protection and environmental sciences.PAVEL CIAIAN is a senior researcher at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission. He studied at KU Leuven University in Belgium. Before joining the JRC, he was senior researcher at the LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance and Assistant Professor of economics at the Slovak Agricultural University. His research interests focus on agricultural policy, institutional economics, and energy and development economics.

• Part I: The commercial and institutional framework of the Eurasian wheat belt region.- Privatization and changing farm structure in the Commonwealth of Independent States.- Land policy in Russia: New challenges.- Credit and finance issues in the Eurasian wheat belt.- Part II: The role of agricultural policies.- Agrarian reforms in Ukraine.- Outcomes of the agrarian reform in Russia.- More than pouring money into an ailing sector? Farm-level financial constraints and Kazakhstan’s “Agribusiness 2020” strategy.- The new wheat exporters of Eurasia and volatility.- Part III: The future of grain production and export.- Assessing the potential for Russian grain export: A special focus on the prospective cultivation of the abandoned land.- Production potential of Kazakhstan.- Future perspectives on regional and interregional food security, emerging players in the region: Uzbekistan.- Wheat production in Turkmenistan: Reality and expectations.- Part IV: A neighbouring and global perspective.- The development of the Eurasian livestock and grain economies.- Eurasian grain markets in an uncertain world: A focus on harvest failures in Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan and their impact on global food security.- China’s role in world food security.- Wheat sector in India: Production, policies and food security.- Part V: Conclusions and policy considerations.

“The eighteen papers making up the volume were delivered at a workshop in Istanbul in spring 2014, held under the auspices of the European Commission. … The papers are policy-orientated, technical, and quantitative. … The Eurasian Wheat Belt and Food Security fills a geographical gap in the literature on the traditional food security paradigm.” (Judith Pallot, EuropeNow, europenowjournal.org, December, 2017)