TRENDS AND THE IMPLICATIONS OF LAND REFORM IN UKRAINE IN THE CONTEXT OF THE QUALITY OF LIVING AND SAFETY OF THE POPULATION

Abstract

The socio-economic and ecological results of the land reform in Ukraine are presented which are not characterized by unambiguousness. In particular, the socio-economic aspect of this period is the transfer of almost 52% of the land to the citizens from the country’s land to private citizens. At the same time, in the economic aspect, the level of utilization of agricultural land potential: in 2016 (with a grain yield potential of 50 centners per hectare), it was only 92.2%, and the level of land use in agriculture for gross production: in agricultural enterprises – 76, 2% by 1990, in households – 134.9% by 1990; in the ecological aspect, the ecological stability of land use, which declined to 97.6% compared to 1990 and is characterized as stable unsustainable; in the legal aspect, the level of security of the guarantee of rights to land ownership and doing business, which amounted to 46% of the required security by 2016. Such a state does not allow for the lifting of the moratorium on the purchase and sale of land plots of land parcels owners (shares).