Grain by Grain - Steppe Intensification

A research project that investigates the spaces of the Russian steppe. The agricultural industry in Russia aims to sustain a large population as Putin seeks to make the country one of the largest agricultural producers in the world with ideas of geopolitical expansion. This results in intensive chemical fertilizer and irrigation use, exhausting the soil and increasing fossil fuel consumption. Vast monocultures of crops contribute to biodiversity loss and lack of resilience to climate change.