Agricultural Land Use in Ukraine: Ensuring and Implementing the Right to a Safe Environment

Dmytro Sannikov,Maryna Kovtun,Tamara Terekhova,Vitalii Kovtun,Karina Ohanova

doi:10.48077/scihor.24(9).2021.86-92

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Abstract

Safe land use of agricultural territories implies the mandatory preservation of the state's land resources, which are its crucial strategic resources. The relevance of this study is conditioned upon the abundance of issues of safe land use in Ukraine, specifically in the agricultural sector of Ukraine, not least due to the difficulties of exercising the citizens' right to safe use of agricultural land. The main purpose of this study is the theoretical investigation of the possibilities of ensuring the right to a safe environment upon using agricultural land in Ukraine, with an assessment of the real possibilities of its practical implementation in modern economic conditions. The basis of the methodological approach in this paper is a combination of methods of systematic analysis of key aspects of safe land use applicable to agricultural land, with the method of abstract-logical research of the main aspects of the exercise of the citizens' right to a safe environment upon using agricultural land in Ukraine. The main results obtained in this paper should be considered the definition of the main priority areas for the development of the available legislative system in Ukraine in the context of ensuring the safety of agricultural activities and the assessment of the role of the state in ensuring the proper level of environmental safety of agricultural land use in terms of the prospects for the preservation of the agricultural land available in the country. The results that were obtained in this study, as well as the conclusions formulated on their basis, have substantial practical significance for agricultural workers concerned about the qualitative solution of problematic issues concerning the ensuring and practical implementation of their legitimate right to a safe environment upon using lands that belong to the agricultural sector of the national economy

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It is considered that any improvement of the land use process in the context of the existing land management system necessarily violates the sustainability of land resources and may adversely affect the future reproductive ability of agricultural land [1]
The results that were obtained in this study, as well as the conclusions formulated on their basis, have substantial practical significance for agricultural workers concerned about the qualitative solution of problematic issues concerning the ensuring and practical implementation of their legitimate right to a safe environment upon using lands that belong to the agricultural sector of the national economy
Considering the current legislative provisions, due to the amendments introduced into the Land Code of Ukraine through the implementation of Draft Law No 2194, which involves changing the Code itself, and some legislative acts aimed at improving the available management system and governing the existing relations in the land use system, there is a radical change in the available land management system through the transfer of state-owned lands located outside settlements, including lands with agricultural purposes, to municipal ownership of urban, rural, and settlement councils

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Introduction

It is considered that any improvement of the land use process in the context of the existing land management system necessarily violates the sustainability of land resources and may adversely affect the future reproductive ability of agricultural land [1]. The issues of increasing the efficiency of agricultural land use are of key importance in the context of practical aspects of land management activities in modern Ukraine. These issues cause certain difficulties in their practical resolution, from the standpoint of the natural and economic processes taking place today, and in some cases predetermine the inapplicability of conventional approaches to obtaining information about the factual state of affairs in national agriculture. When discussing the real possibilities of exercising the right to a safe environment upon agricultural land use, one should consider the environmental situation in a particular region of agricultural activity, as well as the factual state of the land at the time of the start of any activity related to its development for economic purposes. Upon developing a qualitative assessment of the efficiency of the practical agricultural land use, it is necessary to focus on economic and statistical factors, since such an approach invariably imposes many restrictions on the assessment of lands on which no information is available, and indicates the almost complete impossibility of introducing the concept of potential efficiency [5]

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