Kraemer, Roland; Prishchepov, Alexander V; Müller, Daniel - In: Environmental Research Letters 10 (2015) 5, pp. 1-17
During the Soviet Virgin Lands Campaign, approximately 23 million hectares (Mha) of Eurasian steppe grassland were converted into cropland in Northern Kazakhstan from 1954 to 1963. As a result Kazakhstan became an important breadbasket of the former Soviet Union. However, the collapse of the...
