History A-Level
Agricultural policy and food security
What Agricultural policy and food security means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Agricultural policy and food security
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Reference: AQA
The Virgin Lands scheme cultivated vast tracts of unploughed land in Kazakhstan and Siberia to boost grain production, though initial successes were followed by ecological degradation and falling yields.
Topics that use Agricultural policy and food security
- 1H Tsarist and Communist Russia, 1855–1964 – The Stalinist dictatorship and reaction, 1941–1964 (A-level only) (AQA A-Level)
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