The agricultural lands have a special legal regime and are subject to the protection aimed at limiting the seizure of these lands, preserving and increasing their fertility. The area of lands of this category in the structure of land Fund accounts for 100.8 million hа, or 38.6% of used land. Their share in the land Fund of the regions ranges from 70-75% (North-Kazakhstan, Akmola region) to 10-20% (Kyzylorda, Atyrau region). It is mainly related to different climatic conditions and vast areas of desert and semi-desert rangelands.

The major natural factors negatively impacting the properties of solonetzes of the northern forest-steppe of Baraba Steppe were found and stability of the meliorandscapes of the steppe including reclaimed solonetzes was defined. The field research was done in 2006-2016. Cortical hydromorphic solonetzes, reclaimed by gypsum in 1986 in four replications, were studied. The following variants of the experiment were compared: control (without gypsum), 11, 45 and 65 t/ha. Till 1996 cereal crop rotation was cultivated, and in 1996 meliolandscape was abandoned.

Lands of industrial regions are often subjected to long-term contamination with heavy metals such as cadmium, zinc, lead, copper etc. Heavy metals circulate mostly due to water flows, and in the areas with humid (micro) climate, the heavy metal pollution propagates from sources with increased intensity because of acidic environment and soil water logging. We established that natural or artificial drainage effectively increases the washout of heavy metal pollutants due to subsurface and groundwater flows.

Conservation projects have often been criticised for creating global benefits while causing negative impacts on local livelihoods. Ecosystem services approaches have been seen as one way to change this by focussing explicitly on maintaining ecosystems for human well-being of stakeholders at various scales. However, ecosystem services approaches have often ignored trade-offs between groups of people and issues of power and do not automatically lead to better outcomes in terms of human well-being.

This LEGEND bulletin considers the impact that new technology can have on documenting land rights and democratising access to land data around the world.

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