An Application of Linear Programming and Geographic Information Systems: Cropland Allocation in Antigua

1992 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 535-549 ◽  
Author(s):  
J C Campbell ◽  
J Radke ◽  
J T Gless ◽  
R M Wirtshafter
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Linear Programming ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Farm Size ◽  
Agricultural Land Use ◽  
Cost Information ◽  
Policy Application

This paper is focused on the application of linear programming (LP) in combination with a geographic information system (GIS) in planning agricultural land-use strategies. One of the essential inputs for planning any agricultural land-use strategy is a knowledge of the natural resources. This is even more critical in small countries such as those in the Eastern Caribbean, where land-area limitations dictate a greater need for careful assessment and management of these resources. The first step of the proposed methodology is to obtain an assessment of the natural resources available to agriculture. The GIS is used to delineate land-use conflicts and provide reliable information on the natural-resource database. This is followed by combining the data on natural resources with other quantifiable information on available labour, market forecasts, technology, and cost information in order to estimate the economic potential of the agricultural sector. LP is used in this step. Finally, the GIS is applied again to map the crop and land-allocation patterns generated by the LP model. The results are concrete suggestions for resource allocation, farm-size mix, policy application, and implementation projects.

scholarly journals A framework to study nearly optimal solutions of linear programming models developed for agricultural land use exploration

2000 ◽  
Vol 131 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Makowski ◽  
Eligius M.T Hendrix ◽  
Martin K van Ittersum ◽  
Walter A.H Rossing
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Linear Programming ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Programming Models ◽  
Agricultural Land Use ◽  
Optimal Solutions

scholarly journals FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR THE REPRODUCTION OF BALANCED AGRICULTURAL LAND USE

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadiia Davydenko ◽  
Olena Zhovnirenko ◽  
Olha Kliuchka
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Tax Incentives ◽  
The State ◽  
Agricultural Land Use ◽  
Minimal Impact ◽  
Balanced Development ◽  
Credit Mechanism

An important component of forming the basis for the balanced development of the domestic agricultural sector is the reproduction and protection of land resources. A significant part of the problems here are directly related to the insufficiency and inefficiency of financial support for agricultural land use. The purpose of the article is to reveal the financial and credit mechanism for ensuring balanced land use and to develop proposals for improving the financial support for the reproduction and protection of agricultural land through the introduction of tax incentives. The financial and credit mechanism for stimulating balanced agricultural land use can be defined as structurally complex and diversified; it has its own features to ensure its implementation and influence on the subjects of financial and credit relations in the direction of regulating their activities. It is established that financial relations in agricultural land use combine a very large chain of relationships between the state, enterprises, individuals and financial institutions in terms of financial support for the reproduction of agricultural land use. The financial and credit mechanism for stimulating balanced agricultural land use can be defined as structurally complex and branched; it has its own features to ensure its implementation and influence on the subjects of financial and credit relations in the direction of regulating their activities. It is proved that it is necessary to create such conditions of management that unbalanced use of land became economically unprofitable. The level of profitability and income of land users should become dependent on the degree of achievement of balanced agricultural land use, which is determined by a set of agrochemical indicators of the quality of land used for agricultural activities. In order to financially ensure the reproduction of balanced agricultural land use, the introduction of tax incentives is proposed. These include the formation of general favorable tax conditions for enterprises in the agricultural sector of the economy and the introduction of targeted tax benefits. It is established that the use of the above financial and credit levers and incentives for the development of balanced land use is the most accepted in today's challenges, because it has minimal impact on the expenditure side of the state budget.

scholarly journals The essence and role of environmentally friendly agricultural land use in agriculture

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Kupriyanchyk ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Agricultural Land Use ◽  
Environmental Constraints ◽  
Agricultural Producers ◽  
Environmental Threats

The article deals with the relationship between economic development and environmental security.With regard to agricultural land use, ensuring environmental security involves optimizing the organization of land use and land use process on the basis of environmental restrictions on environmental pollution and agricultural products. First of all, according to environmental constraints, the possibilities of exploitation of natural resources and taking into account the peculiarities of agroecosystems (natural and climatic conditions, water resources, terrain, land and soil structure, land erosion, etc.) are determined to address food security. On their basis, ecologically balanced operation of agroecosystems is carried out through the formation of ecologically safe land uses, which provide for the optimization of economic activity of agricultural producers, taking into account environmental constraints. The article clarifies the essence and significance of ecologically safe agricultural land use in agriculture, proposes an approach to defining the essence of ecologically safe agricultural land use as a process of land use in the agricultural sector of the economy, which prevents the danger to human health, degradation of land resources, as well as their resilience to environmental threats and risks. The role of ecologically safe agrarian land use in ensuring sustainable development of rural areas and directions of influence of interaction of ecological and economic components of safety of agrarian land use are defined.

scholarly journals Greening of agricultural land use as a major component of organic farming and sustainable development

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 145-149
Author(s):  
T.O. Stepanenko ◽  
O.Ya. Petrenko ◽  
P.F. Tsygikal
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Organic Farming ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
State Level ◽  
World Market ◽  
Organic Production ◽  
Agricultural Land Use ◽  
Organic Products

In the interests of further development of organic production in Ukraine, it is necessary: to increase the area for the "organic" production through the use of uncontaminated lands; to create conditions for proper stimulation of agricultural producers, reduction of risks of organic production; to work out a system of state certification of organic products, to ensure clear state control over the quality of organic food; to create an appropriate base for the processing organic raw materials; to promote the competitiveness of domestic "organic" in the world market. Therefore, when greening agricultural land use as a basis for the development of organic farming, it is advisable to determine the optimal areas at the state level, primarily from an ecological point of view, involved in agricultural land turnover. To develop mechanisms for their most cost-effective use and provide the most favorable conditions for preserving the ecological and economic potential of agricultural land. We see the main goals of greening of agricultural production in the greening of social production, including the agricultural sector by greening its individual components, which are combined into a single system. Greening technological and management solutions are undoubtedly important. The priority tasks of greening agricultural land use as the main component of organic farming include strengthening environmental safety; reducing the man-made load on natural biocenoses; rational use of natural resources; preserving, reproducing and increasing soil fertility; introducing energy-saving waste-free production technologies; increasing the production of environmentally friendly organic products.

scholarly journals FORMATION OF AGRO-FOOD SPECIALIZATION OF UKRAINE IN THE CONTEXT OF MODERN INVESTMENT PROCESSES

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (10) ◽  
pp. 35-51
Author(s):  
Olena SHUBRAVSKA ◽  
◽  
Kateryna PROKOPENKO ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Capital Investment ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Agricultural Land Use ◽  
Domestic Investment ◽  
Oilseed Crops ◽  
Foreign Companies ◽  
Recovery Processes ◽  
Food Complex

The influence of global food demand has become the main driver of the formation of specialization of the agro-food complex of Ukraine. Increasing the production and export of grain and oilseed crops has allowed farmers to improve their financial situation and create a basis for recovery processes. The deepening of such specialization intensified with the advent of large capital in agriculture, including non-agricultural and foreign. Over a long period of time, there has been an intensive increase in capital investment in agriculture, which has become one of the important factors in creating the basis for the formation of large farms with a significant bank of land and updated material and technical resources. Foreign investment also grew. It was carried out mainly by companies owned by foreign residents and those controlled by foreign companies resident in Ukraine and, in fact, are Ukrainian capital previously withdrawn from the country, as well as international financial institutions. Currently, the greatest interest for foreign and domestic investors in the domestic agricultural sector is financing the production of grain and oilseed crops with more than half of all FDI and more than two thirds of domestic investment. Data from the Land Matrix, an independent land monitoring initiative, show a broad presence in Ukraine's agricultural land use of both foreign capital and capital that positions itself as Ukrainian but has foreign registration. The most typical schemes of land use agreements are also highlighted. Emphasis is placed on the inclusion in the agreements of requirements for the issuance of permits for special use of water resources and the use of irrigation infrastructure, which poses threats to water degradation. The consequences of increasing the presence of large capital in agricultural land use are revealed. Emphasis is placed on the need to regulate large investments in agriculture to ensure sustainable, structurally balanced and ecologically balanced functioning of the domestic agro-food complex.

scholarly journals Economic incentives of application of environmental measures by agricultural land users

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
О. Dorosh ◽  
◽  
V. Fomenko ◽  
Illia-Ol. Zastulka ◽  
D. Tretiachenko ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Environmental Safety ◽  
Economic Incentives ◽  
Agricultural Land Use ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Protection Measures ◽  
Environmental Measures ◽  
Definition Of

During the analysis of legislation, regulations and their practical implementation we identified problems of maintaining the required level of environmental safety of agricultural land use. In this regard, the incentive of environmental measures implemented by economic entities in the agricultural sector is essential both by the state and through the intensification of private initiative. It is substantiated that due to the competent combination of parameters and tools of the regulator, landowners and land users will honestly comply with the requirements of environmental safety in land use. It is proposed to introduce changes to the legislation with a clear definition of the sources, grounds, procedure for compensation payments for implementation of environmental protection measures by agricultural land use entities. It is expedient to intensify the system of joint funds for restoration, reproduction and protection of agricultural lands.

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