The importance of creation and improvement of the automated system of management of the land and property complex of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine is substantiated. The principles and standards of national geospatial data infrastructure are emphasized. The following are the main components of the automated system of land and real estate management of NAAS: object composition of data, roles and levels of access to the system, data protection and information security, business processes and functionality, spatial and organizational structure, data quality, retrospect, data analysis and reporting, planning and vision, etc. There are several subject blocks of business processes of managing the objects of the NAAS land and property complex: determination of the legal status and ensuring control over the observance of the legal regime of the use of land resources 2 and real estate; research and experimental development; production, economic, service and support processes; monitoring, analysis and reporting; interaction with other services and interoperability of data; verification and validation of data. Among the main tasks of the system: geoinformation database of real rights to real estate and their restrictions, inventory and monitoring of land resources, forming of agricultural land, accounting for particularly valuable land, zoning and zoning, etc. When considering approaches to the formation of the automated system, the peculiarities of the research and educational purpose of the NAAS land and property complex and its importance for the national security of the country are taken into account.

It has been found that pursuing a state policy in the field of land relations in order to obtain economic benefits without taking into account environmental interests has caused an ecological crisis in land use, as evidenced by the results of the classification in the world environmental rating of Ukraine (102nd place among 132 countries). From these positions, $5 billion is lost in economic equivalents due to poor crop yields on contaminated and degraded lands, with indirect losses reaching up to one billion hryvnias ($40 million). It is proved that the existing disparities can be adjusted by the use of universal tools for implementing the financial and economic mechanism of influence on economic entities in order to achieve environmentally safe land use, focusing on the factors that shape the possibilities of using a specific type of instruments, namely: economic incentives, economic guarantees, market, mortgage, fiscal and innovative.

The features of the selection of the area for placement of apiaries are analyzed, which will provide a sufficient forage base and productivity of apiaries and at the same time will be safe for the life of bees. The possibilities of using geoinformation models for finding the apiaries optimal location have been shown in the research. Finding suitable parcels in a fairly short time is due to the dependence on blossom of entomophily cultures. In the article, it was shown the analysis of different requires for location of bee-garden land parcels and the solution of the automation of work related to the preparation of geo-images of suitable territories. This research describes the algorithm for making the geo-images reduces waste the time consuming and accelerates the analysis of spatial data for making decisions on the location of apiaries. It was proposed to use spatial analysis for selecting the optimal location of apiary. As a result of the research, it was established that an algorithm that automate some steps in the creating of land management documentation for beekeeping farms can be used for the location determination of bee-garden land parcels.

Over the past half a century, the total area of forests in the world has decreased significantly. Ukraine belongs to sparsely wooded and wood-deficient countries as the share of forest cover is 15.9% against the required optimal value of 25-30%. Steppe areas are characterized by 1.9–4.8% of woodland. The total area of forest land belonging to the forest fund of Ukraine is currently 10.4 million ha, including 9.6 million ha of forest vegetation; there are restrictions on woodland management for about 3.5 million ha of forests. In Ukraine, 4.03 million ha of forests were cut down in 2008–2017; moreover, about 170.7 thous. ha were destroyed by fires, pests, storms and poachers; only 16.3% of this area was recovered. In order to ensure the optimal forest cover, it is necessary to differentially restore the forest area in Ukraine on 6.0–9.2 million ha. The average shelterbelt ratio in some physical-geographical zones of Ukraine varies within 1.3–1.5%, whereas the optimal forest cover should be 3.0–4.5%. In particular, about 76.0% of the territory of the steppe zone of Ukraine has an insufficient forest cover, which causes systematic negative manifestations of water and wind erosion. This situation is aggravated by a high percentage of land under agricultural use in the southern regions - up to 97%, which results in a low degree of ecological sustainability of landscapes in preserving soil fertility. Retrospective analysis showed a significant (1.9–2.3 times) decrease in the area of shelterbelts over the past 60 years. The total loss of shelterbelts in Ukraine over the last 10 years is 10 071 ha, which has weakened the nature conservation function of forest plantations and caused large-scale manifestations of water and wind erosion. The research used data of the State Statistics Service and the State Geocadastre of Ukraine for 2008–2017. Deciphering the Earth remote sensing data and using a series of correctly calibrated MODIS satellite images (230 × 230 m geometric resolution) made it possible to determine the correlation between the spatial distribution of the forest fund and percentage of cultivated land in Ukraine. Using the Zonal Statistics of Spatial Analyst Tools module of the ArcGIS program there has been determined the percentage of forest cover and cultivated land within separate administrative and territorial units. The difficult situation in Ukraine in which the state of forest ecosystems does not meet the ecological and economic requirements is caused by challenges in making managerial decisions in the sphere of forestry. The results obtained make it possible to substantiate the need for spatial-differential Over the past half a century, the total area of forests in the world has decreased significantly. Ukraine belongs to sparsely wooded and wood-deficient countries as the share of forest cover is 15.9% against the required optimal value of 25-30%. Steppe areas are characterized by 1.9–4.8% of woodland. The total area of forest land belonging to the forest fund of Ukraine is currently 10.4 million ha, including 9.6 million ha of forest vegetation; there are restrictions on woodland management for about 3.5 million ha of forests. In Ukraine, 4.03 million ha of forests were cut down in 2008–2017; moreover, about 170.7 thous. ha were destroyed by fires, pests, storms and poachers; only 16.3% of this area was recovered. In order to ensure the optimal forest cover, it is necessary to differentially restore the forest area in Ukraine on 6.0–9.2 million ha. The average shelterbelt ratio in some physical-geographical zones of Ukraine varies within 1.3–1.5%, whereas the optimal forest cover should be 3.0–4.5%. In particular, about 76.0% of the territory of the steppe zone of Ukraine has an insufficient forest cover, which causes systematic negative manifestations of water and wind erosion. This situation is aggravated by a high percentage of land under agricultural use in the southern regions - up to 97%, which results in a low degree of ecological sustainability of landscapes in preserving soil fertility. Retrospective analysis showed a significant (1.9–2.3 times) decrease in the area of shelterbelts over the past 60 years. The total loss of shelterbelts in Ukraine over the last 10 years is 10 071 ha, which has weakened the nature conservation function of forest plantations and caused large-scale manifestations of water and wind erosion. The research used data of the State Statistics Service and the State Geocadastre of Ukraine for 2008–2017. Deciphering the Earth remote sensing data and using a series of correctly calibrated MODIS satellite images (230 × 230 m geometric resolution) made it possible to determine the correlation between the spatial distribution of the forest fund and percentage of cultivated land in Ukraine. Using the Zonal Statistics of Spatial Analyst Tools module of the ArcGIS program there has been determined the percentage of forest cover and cultivated land within separate administrative and territorial units. The difficult situation in Ukraine in which the state of forest ecosystems does not meet the ecological and economic requirements is caused by challenges in making managerial decisions in the sphere of forestry. The results obtained make it possible to substantiate the need for spatial-differential Over the past half a century, the total area of forests in the world has decreased significantly. Ukraine belongs to sparsely wooded and wood-deficient countries as the share of forest cover is 15.9% against the required optimal value of 25-30%. Steppe areas are characterized by 1.9–4.8% of woodland. The total area of forest land belonging to the forest fund of Ukraine is currently 10.4 million ha, including 9.6 million ha of forest vegetation; there are restrictions on woodland management for about 3.5 million ha of forests. In Ukraine, 4.03 million ha of forests were cut down in 2008–2017; moreover, about 170.7 thous. ha were destroyed by fires, pests, storms and poachers; only 16.3% of this area was recovered. In order to ensure the optimal forest cover, it is necessary to differentially restore the forest area in Ukraine on 6.0–9.2 million ha. The average shelterbelt ratio in some physical-geographical zones of Ukraine varies within 1.3–1.5%, whereas the optimal forest cover should be 3.0–4.5%. In particular, about 76.0% of the territory of the steppe zone of Ukraine has an insufficient forest cover, which causes systematic negative manifestations of water and wind erosion. This situation is aggravated by a high percentage of land under agricultural use in the southern regions - up to 97%, which results in a low degree of ecological sustainability of landscapes in preserving soil fertility. Retrospective analysis showed a significant (1.9–2.3 times) decrease in the area of shelterbelts over the past 60 years. The total loss of shelterbelts in Ukraine over the last 10 years is 10 071 ha, which has weakened the nature conservation function of forest plantations and caused large-scale manifestations of water and wind erosion. The research used data of the State Statistics Service and the State Geocadastre of Ukraine for 2008–2017. Deciphering the Earth remote sensing data and using a series of correctly calibrated MODIS satellite images (230 × 230 m geometric resolution) made it possible to determine the correlation between the spatial distribution of the forest fund and percentage of cultivated land in Ukraine. Using the Zonal Statistics of Spatial Analyst Tools module of the ArcGIS program there has been determined the percentage of forest cover and cultivated land within separate administrative and territorial units. The difficult situation in Ukraine in which the state of forest ecosystems does not meet the ecological and economic requirements is caused by challenges in making managerial decisions in the sphere of forestry. The results obtained make it possible to substantiate the need for spatial-differential practices of forest restoration and implementation of land and water conservation measures for land fund optimization on the basis of adaptive-landscape principles which will create preconditions for the rational use and rehabilitation of forest and land resources of Ukraine in the context of sustainable land use.

The land management method is the main instrument for the organization of sustainable use and protection of land in the process of agricultural land use formation in spatial planning of territories.So, it is important to consider the effectiveness of the existing land management system as an ecological and economical tool for sustainable development of the agrarian sector. The discussion of the formation of the highly efficient agricultural land use in Ukraine is conducted while reviewing the world positive experience regarding the realization of the main principals of the spatial planning of territories. In this study, the international experience of land-use planning while sustainable use of agricultural lands is analyzed. A core of the main spheres of implementation of the world experience in spatial planning of the territories while applying ecological and economical mechanisms of sustainable use of lands in Ukraine is reviled. In this paper, the international experience of using the land management mechanism for providing sustainable use of agricultural lands that are based on spatial planning of rural areas as independent objects of management is studied.

Assessment of the environmental impact of land use as a planned economic activity related to a number of issues, in particular theoretical and methodological character. One of the main problems in the development of such a theory is to built its basis, the starting point for the development of which is to determine the methodological procedure. Despite the large amount of literature devoted to the study of various aspects of environmental impact assessment, it is necessary to state that no sustainable, complete definition of this concept has been formed in the environmental literature. The purpose of the article is to review and compile directions and approaches formed by certain criteria in the doctrine of environmental legislation to define the concept of environmental impact assessment of land use as a planned economic activity, to cover their heterogeneous and general nature for developing a holistic view of ways of understanding this concept, as well as an account of one own vision of the optimal methodological basis for defining the concept of environmental impact assessment of land use. From the example of foreign experience it is established that in the modern period the following procedures are widely recognized: previous environmental impact assessment - screening; definition of environmental assessment tasks - scoping; generalization, comparison and choice of alternatives. From the authors point of view, it is proposed to supplement the environmental impact assessment with the following steps as well: assessment of environmental parameters; mitigation; decision making. Based on the analysis of the considered methodologies for environmental situation assessment, we propose a methodology for geoinformation land-ecologicaltechno-geochemical modeling of environmental situations, based on the use of GIS technologies for graphical overlay of evaluation maps [1]. This methodology is the optimal basis for determining the environmental impact assessment of land use as a planned economic activity, both in the early stages of environmental impact assessment and when comparing alternatives.

The article considers the essence of concepts of decentralization and determinants of sustainable development of the agricultural sector. It analyzes the dynamics of payment for land to local budgets of Ukraine in 2014-2019. It shows that the introduction of new normative monetary valuation significantly reduces the fiscal potential of territorial communities, whose main profitable source of budget generation is the proceeds from payment for land. The paper proposes some approaches to improve the mechanism of state regulation of sustainable development of the agricultural sector of Ukrainian economy for enhancing its competitiveness in the context of Ukraine integration into the European area. The study substantiates the fact that determinants of sustainable development of the agricultural sector of economy are identified from two perspectives: on the one hand, determinants of sustainable development of the agricultural sector are the conditions, causes, factors on which this development depends; on the other hand, they are constituent elements of sustainable development of the agricultural sector of economy. The paper considers the process of transfer of agricultural land plots from state to communal ownership of united territorial communities in Ukraine in 2018. It provides a comparative description of advantages and disadvantages of sources of investment projects financing in the agricultural sector of economy. As a result, it is determined that own funds of enterprises are the most reliable and stable investment resource. The authors propose to mobilize investment processes in the agricultural sector based on all possible sources, to increase state investments, to intensify alternative investments, to stimulate the inflow of foreign investments, to expand the practice of insurance and guarantee of the state-supported investment projects in the agricultural sector of economy.

In this article the concepts and essential features of non-conventional agricultural land use have been defined. The main economic and land management actions were designated to ensure the greening and capitalization of nonconventional agricultural land use. In modern economic science, the terms "organic farming" and "nonconventional farming" are often used at the same time and often equated. However, in our opinion, there are a number of differences between them, so it is necessary to harmonize the interpretation of relevant concepts and categories. Non-conventional land use should be understood as the process of organizing economically efficient, environmentally friendly and socially-oriented use of agricultural land as means of basic production in close interaction with the environment, and with land ownership relations (where human and its intellect are the key to the formation of land capital). Key aspects of the essence of nonconventional land use are its greening and capitalization. This can be provided by the following means: studying of the land and soil suitability for growing, for example, niche crops, within the land use; working out different options for the nonconventional land use development; land management options development and implementation of land improvements; developing a forecast for the economic efficiency of land use; deciding on the feasibility of organizing non-conventional land use; development of an economic management plan for the organization of nonconventional land use.

The necessity of attracting scientific and practical conclusions to resolve controversial issues in the land management industry is substantiated. The practical experience of applying the scientific and practical conclusion and conducting scientific research in solving the problem associated with the correction of technical errors in the state land cadastre is considered. The analysis and justifiably technical error in the data of the State Land Cadastre on the change in the purpose of the land for the construction and maintenance of an apartment building from erroneous purpose for conducting agricultural production was carried out. The list of documents that must be submitted together with the application to the cadastral registrar on making amendments based on a technical error of information about the land registered in the State Land Cadastre is given. It is noted that it is necessary to start the practice of creating scientific and legal conclusions to resolve controversial and complex issues in land management with the involvement of leading scientists in the industry and specialized research institutions.

The authors developed twelve land management projects for the allocation of land plots to individuals and submitted them for approval to the territorial body of the central body of executive power, which implements state policy in the field of land relations. The peculiarity of the study is that the developed projects are identical in terms of location of land (adjacent land users), purpose, soil, composition of land and restrictions and burdens on their use. However, the responses of the territorial body of the central executive body implementing the state policy in the field of land relations to the consideration of each of these projects are different , despite the fact that the aforementioned land management projects were developed using the same methods, software and the same contractors. The lack of a unified system of standards for the development of land documentation and its constituent parts, as well as the criteria for reviewing and evaluating the compliance of such documentation with the territorial bodies of the central executive body implementing state policy in the field of land relations, is a key obstacle to a transparent land management process. This, in turn, creates the need to analyze the preconditions for standardization of documentation on land management and its components.

The changes in the quantitative and qualitative state of use of defense lands in the period from 1990 to 2016were researched. As a result, it became known that since 1990 the total area of defense lands has decreased by 59.7%, and from 2010 to 20167 by 0.4%. The lands of the Ministry of Defense in the category of defense lands constitute 339.8 thousand hectares or 84.9% of the total area, the Ministry of Internal Affairs - 11.8 thousand hectares or 2.9%, the National Guard - 10,0 thousand hectares or 2.5%, the State Committee for the Protection of the State Border of 6.8 thousand hectares or 1.7%, the Society for the Defense of Ukraine - 3.1 thousand hectares or 0.8%, other military formations - 10.7 thousand hectares or 2.7%. Established, that significant changes that took place in the land use of defense did not increase of ecological, economic and social security, and, consequently, the safety of the life of the population of Ukraine.