Soybean is an important natural source of isoflavones, but their concentration is likely to be influenced by external factors, such as climatic conditions and soil tillage systems.

The article starts from the premise that agricultural bioenergy crop production has massive influence in changing the land use paradigm in Romania, due the fact that important land surface areas are cultivated with such crops because of the increasing demand of biofuels.

Globally, built-up development is taking place at unprecedented rates. To mitigate and limit its effects, recent scientific and spatial planning communities call for built-up management to be addressed on broader scales, from regional to national, and coordinated with multiple policy domains.

The purpose of this research is to explore the issue of the land used for sunflower and its production as raw material for edible oil processing industry in Romania.

Arguing organic vs. conventional land use is broadly discussed in research papers, political discourse, and even more practical issues at farm level.