Human-geographical features of the agricultural research in the aspect of the EU nature restoration regulation
Abstract
The article provides a theoretical and methodological generalization of the human-geographical features of the study of agriculture as a complex, multi-level social and geographical system. The importance of this study comes from the growing role of agriculture in providing food security, helping the economic development of areas, restoring the natural environment and agricultural ecosystems, and the need to fully comprehend how agriculture is changing due to globalization, climate change, and uneven development across regions, as required by human geography.
The aim of the article is to theoretically substantiate and generalize the human-geographical features of agricultural research in relation to the EU Nature Restoration Regulation; to determine its structure and functioning as an open multi-level social and geographical system; and to identify methodological approaches and methods for conducting human-geographical research in agriculture.
The article discusses the primary theories regarding the development and location of agriculture, as well as the key provisions of the EU Regulation on nature restoration. The authors interpret agriculture as a key element of the interaction of social, natural, and economic subsystems that function in the unity of geographical space and time. They analyzed the structure of agriculture with the separation of crop production and livestock production; the functions of agriculture are highlighted: food, raw material, economic, social, environmental, territorial, mentality-forming, cultural, informative, and restorative ones.
The researchers reveal the main methodological approaches in the study of agriculture, namely geographical, systemic, synergistic, informational and historical ones, and justify the need for their comprehensive application for the constant analysis of the agricultural organization in different regions and countries, identifying its specific features and patterns of development. Philosophical, general scientific, and specific scientific methods of the human-geographical research of agriculture are characterized. The obtained results characterize the theoretical and methodological basis for human-geographical research of agriculture at various hierarchical levels, in the development of territorial development strategies, restoration of agricultural ecosystems, and management of agricultural development.
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