Agriculture and land use in the North of Russia: Case study of Karelia and Yakutia

Наумов, А.С.; Akimova, Varvara; Sidorova, Daria; Topnikov, Mikhail

doi:10.1515/geo-2020-0210

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“…(Karelian Russian woman born in 1968), underlining that wild food plays a major role in the Karelian diet. Second, Naumov et al (48) reported that in Russian Karelia cattle breeding is currently highly subsidized and the subsidies may help pay for veterinary services that were well-developed during Soviet times (9), thus abandoning existing ethnoveterinary knowledge.…”

Section: Possible Erosive Trajectories Of Ethnoveterinary Knowledge In Karelia Setomaa and Dzukijamentioning

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Multifarious Trajectories in Plant-Based Ethnoveterinary Knowledge in Northern and Southern Eastern Europe

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Over the last century in the European context, animal production has been transformed by the dynamics of centralization and decentralization due to political and economic factors. These processes have influenced knowledge related to healing and ensuring the welfare of domestic animals. Therefore, our study aimed to document and compare current and past ethnoveterinary practices, and to identify trajectories in ethnoveterinary knowledge in study regions from both northern and southern Eastern Europe. In the summers of 2018 and 2019, we conducted 476 interviews, recording the use of 94 plant taxa, 67 of which were wild and 24 were cultivated. We documented 452 use reports, 24 of which were related to the improvement of the quality or quantity of meat and milk, while the other 428 involved ethnoveterinary practices for treating 10 domestic animal taxa. Cattle were the most mentioned target of ethnoveterinary treatments across all the study areas, representing about 70% of all use reports. Only four plant species were reported in five or more countries (Artemisia absinthium, Hypericum spp., Linum usitatissimum, Quercus robur). The four study regions located in Northern and Southern Eastern Europe did not present similar ethnoveterinary knowledge trajectories. Bukovinian mountain areas appeared to hold a living reservoir of ethnoveterinary knowledge, unlike the other regions. Setomaa (especially Estonian Setomaa) and Dzukija showed an erosion of ethnoveterinary knowledge with many uses reported in the past but no longer in use. The current richness of ethnoveterinary knowledge reported in Bukovina could have been developed and maintained through its peculiar geographical location in the Carpathian Mountains and fostered by the intrinsic relationship between the mountains and local pastoralists and by its unbroken continuity of management even during the Soviet era. Finally, our results show some patterns common to several countries and to the veterinary medicine promoted during the time of the Soviet Union. However, the Soviet Union and its centralized animal breeding system, resulted in a decline of ethnoveterinary knowledge as highly specialized veterinary doctors worked in almost every village. Future research should examine the complex networks of sources from where farmers derive their ethnoveterinary knowledge.

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Section: Possible Erosive Trajectories Of Ethnoveterinary Knowledge In Karelia Setomaa and Dzukijamentioning

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Multifarious Trajectories in Plant-Based Ethnoveterinary Knowledge in Northern and Southern Eastern Europe

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“…In most countries, governmental support plays a crucial role in the implementation of the state agri-food policy [14]. The creation of a favorable investment climate and governmental support for concessional lending to agrarian entities should become the economic basis for the reproduction of resources.…”

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Resource potential for the sustainable development of agriculture in the Kyrgyz Republic

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The sustainable development of agriculture is closely related to the quantity and quality of the resource potential and the conditions for reproduction. The paper analyzes the totality, quantitative set and qualitative parameters of labor, land and material and technical resources in the Kyrgyz Republic. The proportions of the reproduction of the resource potential in rural areas depend on the financial condition of an economic entity, the strategy and tactics of its development, the market conditions, and the stage of the economic cycle. There are some problems in realizing the resource potential of the sustainable development of the Kyrgyz Republic, including the lack of a developed innovation market infrastructure for agricultural producers. The uneven development of various components of the resource potential in agriculture is an inevitable factor that determines the specifics of its reproduction. Therefore, the efficiency of the resource potential should be enhanced through the formation of sufficient governmental support aimed at the innovative development of manufacturing, making of environmentally friendly agricultural products and introduction of advanced technologies that will ensure the competitiveness of agricultural enterprises in the context of the need for sustainable development.

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“…In particular, it is assumed that the Sakha (Yakut) people are descended from a common ancestral population from the Lake Baikal region, genetically and culturally close to Mongols and Buryats until they were displaced by the latter [43]. The northward migration can be explained by the arrival of horse-breeding peoples from the Asian steppes at the beginning of the rst millennium BC, at a time when reindeer breeding ourished in the Eastern Sayan region [42,45]. Thus, the high percentage of lactase de ciency in Siberian populations, in addition to the genetic component, can be explained by the following factors: big practice in milk fermentation practices (the lactose content of mare's milk is 1.5 times higher than of cow's one [46]); later domestication and the presence of admixture with steppe herders have been suggested as possible explanations.…”

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Lactase deficiency in Russia: multiethnic genetic study

Kovalenko¹,

Vergasova²,

Shoshina

et al. 2023

Eur J Clin Nutr

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BackgroundLactase persistence -the ability to digest lactose through adulthood -is closely related to evolutionary adaptations and has affected many populations since the beginning of cattle breeding. Nevertheless, the contrast initial phenotype, lactase non-persistence or adult lactase de ciency, is still affecting large numbers of people worldwide. MethodsWe performed the largest multiethnic genetic study of lactase de ciency on 24439 people in Russia to date. The percent of each population group was estimated according to the local ancestry inference results. Additionally, we calculated frequencies of rs4988235 GG genotype in Russian regions using the information of current location and birthplace data in client's questionnaire. ResultsIt turned out that among all studied population groups the frequency of GG genotype in rs4988235 was higher than in average in the European populations. In particular, the prevalence of lactase de ciency genotype in the East Slavs group was 42.8% (95% CI: 42.1-43.4%). We also investigated the regional prevalence of lactase de ciency by current place of residence. ConclusionsOur study emphasizes the diagnostic signi cance of genetic testing, i.e. speci cally for lactose intolerance parameter, as well as the scale of the problem of lactase de ciency in Russia which needs to be addressed by healthcare and food industry.

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Agriculture and land use in the North of Russia: Case study of Karelia and Yakutia

Cited by 10 publications

References 15 publications

Multifarious Trajectories in Plant-Based Ethnoveterinary Knowledge in Northern and Southern Eastern Europe

Multifarious Trajectories in Plant-Based Ethnoveterinary Knowledge in Northern and Southern Eastern Europe

Resource potential for the sustainable development of agriculture in the Kyrgyz Republic

Lactase deficiency in Russia: multiethnic genetic study

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