TOWARDS THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF UKRAINIAN AGRICULTURE: LAND USE MANAGEMENT

The article highlights the main legal and ecological peculiarities of the Ukrainian lands use with the aim of ensuring of sustainable land management during the process of the European integration. Since the beginning of 2019 land will be considered as a subject of commercial bargains in Ukraine, which means new level of land use management towards the Sustainable Development of Ukrainian Agriculture. Opening of the land market in Ukraine can have both: negative and positive results. It means that legislation towards sustainability protection is on first priority. According to the Association Agreement between European Union and Ukraine the purpose of co-operation in the sphere of agriculture and the agro-industrial sector shall be the pursuance of agrarian reform, the modernization, privatization and restructuring of agriculture, the agro-industrial and services sectors in Ukraine, development of domestic and foreign markets for the Ukrainian products, in conditions that ensure the protection of the environment, taking into account the necessity to improve security of food supply. Land resources of Ukraine are quite large in comparison with many European countries. Total land area of Ukraine is 60 million hectares and about 42 million hectares belong to the agricultural land. Therefore, there are a lot of issues, which have to be solved and planned, are arising in relation to the appropriate sustainable land management for the agrarian use. The United Nations defines sustainable land management as the use of land resources, including soils, water, animals and plants, for the production of goods to meet changing human needs, while simultaneously ensuring the long-term productive potential of these resources and the maintenance of their environmental functions. This article is dedicated to environmental protection of Ukrainian lands, namely: 1) protection of soil of Ukraine, which is suffering from erosion and other negative impacts; 2) rational purposes of agrarian land use.