The ecological consequences of privatisation in romanian agriculture

✍ Scribed by Cristina Muica; Ion Zavoianu

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 854 KB
• Volume: 38
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0343-2521
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00186671

✦ Synopsis

There have been many changes in the vegetation cover as a result of the development of settlements and agriculture. Every change in the farming system will be reflected in some ways in the vegetation; and some of these changes may be ecologically undesirable. For example erosion may accelerate as a result of cropping and overgrazing on steeply-sloping hill land with thin soils. Several changes were apparent when agriculture was collectivised and a further transformation is now under way as a result of the privatisation of agriculture and the transition to a market economy. The recent changes are outlined, against a background review of the earlier transformations. Although the situation will only become clearer as the transition proceeds it is evident that ecological problems will have to be given a higher priority.