SOME ASPECTS OF FORMATION AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPES UNDER CONDITIONS OF THE VORONEZH REGION

The need for rational use of natural resources of the chernozem regions of the Russian Federation is determined both by the requirements for ensuring the country's food security and the logic of the ecological and socio-economic stability of the territory with the predominance of chernozem soils. The article, using the example of the Voronezh Region, shows the role and practical significance of the spatial organization of agroforestry landscapes in the Central Chernozem Region of the Russian Federation using data from the Federal State Statistics Service on land resources, on the number of farms, food and processing enterprises of the agro-industrial complex over the past 20 years. The adaptive-landscape farming system, as the predominant element of rational land use, contributes to the formation of agroforestry landscapes in sparsely wooded regions of Russia. Agroforestry objects are necessary components of the whole complex of rational land use, ensuring the sustainable use of agroforestry potential of the regional economic space. Long-term practice of protective afforestation on agricultural lands has developed a number of basic types of afforestation: shelterbelts on arable land, ravine forest belts, land reclamation plantations on sand and a hydrographic network, windbreaking and snow shelter-belts. The unique experience of formation and sustainable development over many decades of agroforestry in the Stone Steppe of the Voronezh Region indicates a high level of efficiency of the functioning of such landscapes, even in special extreme conditions. The centuries-old experience of afforestation in the interests of transforming an almost lifeless space has shown the organizing role of forest belts in creating an agroforestry landscape, the effectiveness of their anti-erosion functions, and also the tangible social significance of agroforestry