Optimization of economic and ecological components of using agricultural lands for balansed land use and rural areas development

The study is devoted to solving a topical problem related to the deterioration of land quality in Ukraine and in many countries around the world. This article proposes the use of economic and mathematical modelling to optimize the structure of sown areas of crops on the example of the whole of Ukraine in the direction of ensuring the balance of humus in the soil depending on the influence of a number of environmental and economic factors. The formation of the economic and mathematical model was the basis of the research methodology in this work. Based on the use of a systematic approach to assessing the effectiveness of the agricultural land use system, a number of environmental and economic indicators were selected and three groups of restrictions in the field of intensification of agricultural land use were formed. The applied approach made it possible to develop a task to optimize the sown area of crops in order to preserve the quality of land. The results of solving the formed problem showed the need to limit the sown area under crops, the cultivation of which leads to the loss of humus in the soil; in particular, it is proposed to limit the sown area under sunflower. The results of the study allowed us to draw the following conclusions: a positive effect on the quality of soils from the cultivation of annual and perennial grasses was established, which requires an increase in sown areas under these crops; promising indicators for achieving a deficit-free balance of humus in soils during the cultivation of crops have been identified; an algorithm for choosing solutions to ensure balanced use of agricultural land in the agricultural sector has been developed that the presented procedure for choosing solutions will increase the environmental and economic efficiency of agricultural land use; it is established that for the realization of certain goals in the system of land use, the decisive importance should be given to the consideration and coordination of environmental, economic and social interests.

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

10.31548/zemleustriy2021.02.04 ◽

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.

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How land transfer affects agricultural land use efficiency: Evidence from China’s agricultural sector

Land Use Policy ◽

10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105300 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 103 ◽

pp. 105300 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Rilong Fei ◽

Ziyi Lin ◽

Joseph Chunga

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Agricultural Sector ◽

Agricultural Land ◽

Agricultural Land Use ◽

Land Use Efficiency ◽

Land Transfer ◽

Use Efficiency

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

Environment and Planning A Economy and Space ◽

10.1068/a240535 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 24 (4) ◽

pp. 535-549 ◽

Cited By ~ 44

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.

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Priority setting in agricultural land-use types for sustainable development

Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems ◽

10.1079/raf200483 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 20 (3) ◽

pp. 136-147 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Nevin Akpinar ◽

Ilkden Talay ◽

Sema Gun

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Land Use ◽

Sustainable Development ◽

Developing Countries ◽

Agricultural Land ◽

Sustainable Land Use ◽

Agricultural Land Use ◽

Land Use Decisions ◽

Multicriteria Methods

AbstractEven in developing countries that are faced with ecological and socio-economic problems, agricultural areas are constrained by land-use laws to be developed in particular ways. This being the case, the major issues in these areas are a better quality of life and sustainable use of the limited resources. This necessitates planning for sustainable development and evaluating various qualitative and quantitative data in a single framework. Multicriteria or multipurpose decision analysis methods are appropriate for this purpose. Using these methods, physical, economical and social data, as well as planning goals, can be combined and evaluated in the context of sustainable development. These multicriteria methods have been documented widely in a variety of problem areas, but two multicriteria methods, namely AHP (analytic hierarchy process) and ELECTRE II (elimination and choice translating reality), have not been used extensively in agricultural land-use decisions in developing countries. However, in situations where decision-making criteria are non-commensurable, non-comparable or non-countable, and when it is necessary to evaluate the criteria together, as in agricultural land-use decisions, AHP and ELECTRE II methods are warranted. This study reviews these methods briefly and suggests their potential application in the agricultural land-use decision process in a developing country. For this purpose, these methods were sampled in Ziyaret Stream Basin in Adiyaman, which is part of the Güneydoğu Anadolu Projesi (GAP) (South-eastern Anatolian Project) in the Republic of Turkey. The area could be characterized by its rural and agricultural features, although it is under the pressure of Adiyaman urban development. This study shows that both AHP and ELECTRE II methods can be applied successfully for the determination of agricultural land-use priorities, which are an essential part of the quality of life and of sustainable land-use studies.

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FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR THE REPRODUCTION OF BALANCED AGRICULTURAL LAND USE

State and regions. Series: Economics and Business ◽

10.32840/1814-1161/2021-4-18 ◽

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.

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The Quality of Farmland Protection in Canada: An Evaluation of the Strength of Provincial Legislative Frameworks

Canadian Planning and Policy / Aménagement et politique au Canada ◽

10.24908/cpp-apc.v2021i01.14229 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2021 ◽

pp. 109-130

Author(s):

David J. Connell

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Land Use Planning ◽

Policy Development ◽

Agricultural Land ◽

Agricultural Land Use ◽

Farmland Protection ◽

Strategic Approach ◽

Legislative Framework ◽

Better Than

Continuous efforts by governments to protect agricultural land has resulted in a mix of interests, policies, and outcomes. Through this paper, our aims are to evaluate provincial legislative frameworks across Canada and to improve our understanding of why some provincial legislative frameworks to protect agricultural land are better than others. In our study, we evaluated and compared the strength of ten provincial legislative frameworks for agricultural land use planning. Our results show that Québec, British Columbia, and Ontario have the strongest legislative frameworks to protect agricultural land, while the rest of Canada’s provinces have only a moderate to weak policy focus. This situation leaves most of Canada’s agricultural land highly exposed to more conversion and non-farm uses. The results also illustrate how key elements of a legislative framework interact, serving to either enhance or detract from overall strength of policy focus, thereby informing a strategic approach to policy development.

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Agricultural land-use effects on the indicator bacterial quality of an upland stream in the Derbyshire peak district in the U.K.

Water Research ◽

10.1016/s0043-1354(99)00083-4 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 33 (17) ◽

pp. 3577-3586 ◽

Cited By ~ 47

Author(s):

Colin Hunter ◽

Joy Perkins ◽

Jamie Tranter ◽

John Gunn

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Agricultural Land ◽

Agricultural Land Use ◽

Land Use Effects ◽

Peak District

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

Ukrainian Journal of Ecology ◽

10.15421/2020_221 ◽

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.

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