Doctor of Agricultural Sciences, Academician of RAS, Director,

All-Russian Scientific Research Amelioration Institute

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Prosp. Universitetsky, 97, 400062 Volgograd, Russian Federation

 

Doctor of Agricultural Sciences, Academician of RAS,

Head of Department of Agroforestry and Landscapes Amelioration,

Russian State Agrarian University – Moscow Agricultural Academy named after K.A. Timiryazev

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Timiryazevskaya St., 49, 127550 Moscow, Russian Federation

 

Doctor of Agricultural Sciences, Correspondent Member of RAS,

Deputy Director,

All-Russian Scientific Research Amelioration Institute

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Prosp. Universitetsky, 97, 400062 Volgograd, Russian Federation

 

Candidate of Agricultural Sciences, Academic Secretary,

All-Russian Scientific Research Amelioration Institute

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Prosp. Universitetsky, 97, 400062 Volgograd, Russian Federation

 

Abstract. The paper considers the activities of the All-Russian scientific-research

agroforest reclamation institute and shows the importance of agroforestry as a science in control of extensive degradation processes: desertification, ravines formation, decrease in soil fertility. The paper gives the detail characteristics of main research of the institute: technology of landscape planning of adaptive forest ameliorative arrangement of eroded soils, ecological economical effectiveness of agrarian complexes on soils subjected to deflation, problems of forest amelioration of degraded pastures, and afforestation of sands, thematter of agrarian nature use on sloping soils, woody plants assortment for forest ameliorative complexes on degraded landscapes, system of integrated pest and disease control in agroforest ecosystems, and shows the importance of its introduction for protective afforestation development at the current period.

 

Key words: All-Russian scientific research agroforest reclamation institute, agroforest amelioration, protective afforestation, degradation processes, landscape planning, eroded lands, deflation, afforestation of sands, sloping soils, woody species assortment.