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Agroforestry creates carbon sinks whilst enhancing the environment in agricultural landscapes in Europe

Land Use Policy Volume 83

Peer-reviewed publication
April, 2019
Denmark, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, United States of America, Europe
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
environment
farmland
forestry
land use
research
sustainable land management
Agroforestry, relative to conventional agriculture, contributes significantly to carbon sequestration, increases a range of regulating ecosystem services, and enhances biodiversity. Using a transdisciplinary approach, we combined scientific and technical knowledge to evaluate nine environmental pressures in terms of ecosystem services in European farmland and assessed the carbon storage potential of suitable agroforestry systems, proposed by regional experts.
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Inventory of land as the forming tool for the state land cadastre of Ukraine in modern conditions

Multimedia
December, 2017
Latvia, Ukraine
land policies
farmland
land administration
research
cadastres
land economics
land ownership
One of the primary measures of the land reform is to create the national land registry and related land information database, which can be formed only through a complete inventory of land. This article analyses land inventory data in the current stage of land cadastre functioning and development of land relations, as well as discusses justification of organizational and legislative preconditions for land inventory in Ukraine.
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[On the content of sustainable development strategies for rural councils in the Republic of Belarus (the example of the Krivosel’sky village council of the Vilejka district of the Minsk region)]

Conference Papers & Reports
December, 2017
Latvia, Belarus
land policies
farmland
sustainable development
land economics
cadastres
rural development
In article is considered the existing system of documents of socio-economic planning of administrative and territorial units of the Republic of Belarus. It is expedient to develop a package of documents of a sustainable development of primary administrative and territorial units (village councils) for improvement of this system. Within implementation of the project of the international technical assistance the analysis of potential opportunities of rural territories for sustainable development goals is carried out.
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The role of agricultural property agency in spatial development of rural areas

Multimedia
December, 2016
Poland, Latvia
land policies
farmland
land economics
rural areas
research
land rights
rural development
property
agriculture
land ownership
The changes in the ownership structure were to be implemented by the Agricultural Property Agency of the State Treasury, which, under the Act of Law of 11 April 2003 on the structuring of agrarian system (i.e. The Journal of Laws of 2012, item 803, as amended), on 16 July 2003 became the Agricultural Property Agency with eleven local branch offices.
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Utilization of agricultural land in the Russian Federation

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2018
Russia, Latvia
land use
land management
land economics
land policies
farmland
This article reviews the initiatives for setting up rational use and protection of agricultural lands in order to ensure accelerated growth of the agricultural sector of the Russian Federation, enhancing its sustainability, efficiency, competitiveness, and environmental safety.
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Legitimation of "special value" as a tool of legal protection of lands: the case of Ukraine

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2018
Latvia, Ukraine
land policies
farmland
land administration
land economics
land registration
The main factors that influence the rational land use, conservation and protection of land resources are global ecological and food security, world's population growth, climate change, land acquisition by large world agricultural corporations etc. In this process a priority of attention is protection of the important agricultural lands (in Ukraine, these lands are called especially valuable lands - EVL). Besides, lands with highly productive soils, areas with undisturbed ecosystems, territories with objects of cultural heritage, natural therapeutic resources are a part of EVL.
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[Methodical approach to improvement of organization of land utilization and protection in erosion-unsafe agro-landscapes]

Multimedia
December, 2015
Latvia, Ukraine
land use
land management
research
farmland
The search of effective methods of agricultural land protection from soil erosion under conditions of land relations’ reform in Ukraine is a complex ecological and economic issue requiring a system approach to its solution, adequate organizational and economic support and scientific argumentation. The topicality of the research is based on the importance of the problem of arable land protection from soil erosion, and its solution is related to ecologically safe land utilization keeping to the principles of balanced development of land management.
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Role of land resources in region's economy

Multimedia
December, 2015
Latvia, Ukraine
land policies
farmland
agriculture
land economics
research
The article describes aspects of maximum application of economic potential of land resources as an economic category for territorial organization of production. The author has analysed indicators of estimation of efficiency of economic potential of land resources on the territory of the region, where volume of gross output of agricultural production is considered a principal one.
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Differences in spatial structure of agricultural areas in villages of commune of Bilgoraj with regard to land fragmentation

Conference Papers & Reports
December, 2018
Poland, Latvia
land consolidation
land policies
farmland
rural areas
land economics
The current state of agricultural production space is the outcome of centuries of human activity, as conditioned by socio-economic, legal, and political factors. The characteristic features of the spatial layout of land, which has been shaped in this historical process in the rural areas of southern and south-eastern Poland, are farms divided into a large number of parcels, lack of access to parcels, irregular shapes of parcels, and their scattering in space.
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Spatial diversity of agricultural areas with no access to roads in villages of commune of Bilgoraj

Conference Papers & Reports
December, 2018
Poland, Latvia
Forest Tenure
land consolidation
land policies
farmland
rural areas
land economics
land access
forest land
Agricultural transport roads play an important role not only from the point of view of individual farm holdings, but also the general development of rural areas. Roads constitute an element of the technical infrastructure indispensable for communication and transport; they play a role in shaping the rural landscape, and the routes they follow affect the forms and size of agricultural land and forest areas found within the area covered by a given road system. The existing public road network does not always provide access to all fields.