KULUNDA: Climate Smart Agriculture: South Siberian Agro-steppe as Pioneering Region for Sustainable

Foreword.- 1:Background to the natural landscape and the consequences of the ecosystem conversion.- 1.1 Background of the natural landscape.- 1.1.1 The Kulunda-steppe as part of the Eurasian steppe belt (Authors: Silanteva, M.M- Hensen, I.).- 1.1.2 Climate and vegetation gradients: from the forest to the dry steppe (Authors: Lashchinsky, N., Wesche, K.).- 1.1.3 Soils of the Kulunda steppe (Authors: Kudryavcev, A. E., Mizgirev, A., Guggenberger, G., Mikutta, R.).- 1.2 Anthropogenic influences.- 1.2.1 Early Steppe cultures (Authors: Silanteva, M.M., Kudryavcev, A. E.).- 1.2.2 Russian settlements and the beginning of agriculture (Authors: Frühauf, M., Schmidt, G.).- 1.2.3 The virgin land policy (Authors: Frühauf, M., Schmidt, G.).- 1.2.4 Climate change (Authors: Kharlamova, N.).- 1.3. Consequences of the ecosystem conversion.- 1.3.1 Influence of agricultural cultivation on vegetation distribution and biodiversity (Authors: Silanteva, M.M., Hensen, I.) .- 1.3.2 Soil erosion and physical parameters (Authors: Schmidt, G., Illiger, P.,) .- 1.3.3 Soil-water content (Authors: Meißner, R., Belaev, V.I.,  Stephan, E.) .- 1.3.4 Soil salinization (Authors: Mikutta, R., Reichert, E., Eisold, X.).- 1.3.5 Interaction of agricultural utilization and climate and loss of soil organic matter (Authors: Guggenberger, G., Belaev, I.V., Schmidt, G., Bischoff, N., Illiger, P.).- 1.3.6 Types and occurrence of the ecosystem degradation (Authors: Frühauf, M., Heese, S., Walde, I.).- 1.3.7 Current development tendencies and future perspectives (Authors: Frühauf, M., Guggenberger, G., Belaev, I.V., Bykov, N., Kudryavcev, A. E.,).- Chapter 2: Socio-economic and institutional drivers and impacts of land use change.- 2.1 Socio-economic drivers of social change: 2.1.1 Transition of agriculture in Altai krai: The role of structural change, introduction of modern soil cultivation practices and agricultural policy (Authors: Bavorova, M., Ponkina, E.,  Herzfeld, T.,  Immaverdiev, N., Baisakova, N., Ganga, S., Hirschauer, N.,) Abstract available.- 2.1.2. Title: The Role of the Legal Ownership Forms of Farms in Achievement of Efficiency of Cereal and Sunflower Production in Kulunda Steppe of Altai Krai (Authors: Ponkina, E.V.  Lobova, S.V.) Abstract available.- 2.2 Institutional drivers of social change.- 2.2 1 The role of institutions in effective policy implementation to fight land degradation in West Siberia (Authors: Theesfeld, I. and L. Jelinek).- 2.2.2 Land relations: actors, institutions and the quality of land use (Author: O. Fadeeva).- 2.3 Social-demographic drivers and impacts of land use change.- 2. 3.1 Geography of demographic and migration processes in the Kulunda steppe of the Altai Kraij (Authors: Bykov, N. Lentz, S., Wust, A.).- 2.3.2 The socio-economic environment of innovative agriculture in Altai Krai." (Nikulin, N., Sergienko, A., Vinogradskaja, O., Kurakin, A., Lentz, S., Wust, A.).- Chapter 3: Potentials and Strategies of adapted landuse as basis for ecological and social-economic sustainable development of the rural landscape.- 3.1 Demands for modern cropping systems (Authors: Meinel, T.; Grunwald, L.C.).- 3.2 Modern agricultural technology for the conditions of the steppe regions of the Altai-Krai (Authors: Belaev, I.V; Grunwald, L.C. Meinel.T).- 3.3 Testing of technologies with minimal soil tillage for row crops and cereals (Authors: Grunwald, L.C., Meinel, T.; Belaev, I.V, Koshanov, N., Rudev, N.).- 3.4 Improving the efficacy of crop protection measures (Authors: Grunwald, L.C., Meinel, T.).- 3.5 Effects of the modern technologies on the economic efficiency of the cropping systems (Authors: Hiller, K.; Frühauf, M.; Meinel, T.; Tillack, P.).- 3.6. Possibility of re-naturalising of steppes and increases of biodiversity (Authors: Hensen, I., Silanteva, M.M.).- Chapter 4: Change in Regional Development.- 4.1 Contested Concepts.- 4.1.1 The Regional Development Concept Altai 2025 (Authors: Nikulin, A., Theesfeld, I., Sergienko, A. Lentz, S.).- 4.1.2 Changes in Economic Institutions and Policy (Authors: Nikulin, A., Theesfeld, I., Sergienko, A. Lentz, S.).- 4.1.3 Changes in the Educational System and Cross Sectional Co-operation (Authors: Nikulin, A., Theesfeld, I., Sergienko, A. Lentz, S.).- 4.1.4 Long-term trends (Authors: Nikulin, A., Theesfeld, I., Sergienko, A. Lentz, S.).- 4.2 Current practices of transformation.- 4.2.1 Practices and constraints of further education of farmers in the Kulunda Steppe (Authors: Chizhov, V.N., Ryzhkova, N.A, Liebelt, P.).- 4.2.2 Fielddays for technology transfer and perceptions of dealers and farmers (Authors: Belajew, D., Koshanov, N., Meinel, T.; Grunwald, L.C.).- 4.2.3 Technology learning and transfer of knowledge - practices and lessons learned from the German Degree Programm in Bernaul (Authors: Schmidt, G., Kolander, R. Frühauf, M., Liebelt).- Chapter 5: Summary and outlook (short).- 5.1 Zukunftsvisionen: Die Kulunda-Steppe: Modellregion für nachhaltige Landnutzung, Motor der Regionalentwicklung und neuer "Weltbrotkorb"? (Author: Frühauf, M.).- 5.2 Herausforderungen, Hemmnisse und Potenziale für klimaangepasste LU und zukünftige Rolle des Gebietes angesichts "globaler Herausforderungen" (Author: Frühauf, M.).- 5.3 Neue Herausforderungen durch Veränderung globaler Rahmenbedingungen (Politik, Ernährung, Klimawandel) (Author: Frühauf, M.).- Chapter 6: Acknowledgement.