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  • Agricultural Land in Russian Territorial and Geopolitical Ambitions

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    Guest Contributor  //  August 22, 2022  //  By Jiayi Zhou
    Ukrainian,Rescuers,Clear,Mines,At,The,Site,Of,Recent,Fighting

    The negative impacts on global food security wrought by Russia’s war in Ukraine are obvious. But recent news that Russia currently occupies more than one fifth of Ukrainian farmland, draws attention to another dimension of this politically-induced food and agricultural crisis: land itself. Of course, territory has long been an object of conflict and warfare. But agricultural land—in particular—is also a key, though understated, dimension of the geopolitical ambitions undergirding Russian activity at home and abroad.

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