scholarly journals Factors Affecting the Change of Agricultural Land Use to Tourism: A Case Study on the Southern Coasts of the Caspian Sea, Iran

Agriculture ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 90
Author(s):  
Mostafa Ghadami ◽  
Andreas Dittmann ◽  
Mousa Pazhuhan ◽  
Naser Aligholizadeh Firouzjaie
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Target Population ◽  
Government Support ◽  
Agricultural Land Use ◽  
Agricultural Activity ◽  
The Caspian Sea ◽  
Registration System ◽  
Tourism Sector

This research investigates the reasons of changing the agricultural land use to tourism in a developing country with different political, economic and social context (Iran). The method used in this research is qualitative, and unstructured interviews have been used to collect data. The target population of the research includes farmers who have sold their farmlands to investors in the tourism sector and experts from the agricultural department of the relevant county. The interviewees have been selected through using snowball method and after reaching theoretical saturation, the data collection process was stopped. The results showed that various macro and micro factors affected the process of changing the agricultural land uses to tourism, including the weakness of the agricultural sector in creating income and job opportunities compared to the tourism sector, the weakness of the land use laws and the lack of inter-organizational coordination in law enforcement, the weakness of the property registration system and the lack of a national cadaster, the lack of effective government support of the agricultural sector, the rapid rise in land prices and, ultimately, the change in the attitude of farmers both old and young once towards the agricultural activity and the level of welfare.

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 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.

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

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. s417-s430
Author(s):  
Borys Sydoruk ◽  
Andrii Sava ◽  
Nataliia Korzhenivska ◽  
Nataliya Zdyrko ◽  
Olha Khaіetska
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Perennial Grasses ◽  
Agricultural Land Use ◽  
System A ◽  
Decisive Importance ◽  
Sown Area

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.

scholarly journals Increasing the efficiency of land use in the farmers of the Sumy region

2019 ◽  
pp. 19-23
Author(s):  
Tetiana PIZNIAK ◽  
Yaroslav DENYSENKO
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Local Level ◽  
The State ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Agricultural Land Use ◽  
Land Resources ◽  
Agricultural Lands ◽  
Low Efficiency

Іntroduction. At present it is important to assess the role of each region in the formation of effective and rational land use to improve agricultural land use in Ukraine. One of the leading agricultural regions of Ukraine is Sumy region its agricultural lands occupying a significant part of the country. The problem is that a large part of the Sumy region suitable for the agricultural land use is plowed, which leads to a high level of the soil exhaustion. Purpose. The purpose of the article is to estimate the use of agricultural land in Sumy region, development and substantiation of possible directions for improving efficiency of land use region. Results. The efficiency of industrial activity depends on the total area of used land and its fertility. As already mentioned, Sumy region is one of the leading agrarian regions of Ukraine, its agricultural lands occupy a significant territory of the country. Therefore, the analysis of the efficiency of land use is the primary task for the development of agriculture in the region. Today, farms do not have a significant place in the development of the agrarian sector in Sumy region as the lands in their possession are not used effectively. The necessary condition for improving the management of land resources in the current circumstances is the right choice of economic forms at the local level, which will ensure the rational use of land, solution of environmental problems, inflow of funds to the local budget and, importantly, the creation of jobs. To increase the responsibility of landowners and land users for violating the requirements of land use, it is necessary to improve the mechanism of state control over the use and protection of land. A number of measures are proposed for solving existing problems in the use of land in agricultural sector of Sumy region. Conclusion. Thus, the article evaluated the state of agricultural land use of Sumy region, namely: the structure of agricultural land farms of the region is analyzed; It was discovered that farms play a a small role in the economy of agriculture of Sumy region, they have not sufficiently high ratios of the land resources use. The basis of the reasons for the low efficiency of land use in farms are factors of both micro-and macro-economic character, and overcoming these problems is possible only with the assistance and support of the state.

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