Brazilian agriculture has grown enormously during the past three decades. An interesting aspect of this growth is the respective roles of family and non-family farming, and the seeming importance of this distinction to Brazilian agricultural policy, reflected in the existence of separate...

Natural and anthropogenic conditions determine the intensity and direction of pedogenesis, as well as the nature and degree of degradation of the soil cover of the Republic of Moldova. Depending on the combination of natural and anthropogenic factors, the forms of land degradation are expand....