Title: Indirect corporate agricultural land use in Ukraine: distribution, causes, consequences

Authors: Andrii Martyn; Oleksandr Shevchenko; Ruslan Tykhenko; Ivan Openko; Oleksiy Zhuk; Oleksandr Krasnolutsky

Addresses: National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine, Faculty of Land Management, 17 Vasylkivska Str., Kyiv, 03040, Ukraine ' National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine, Faculty of Land Management, 17 Vasylkivska Str., Kyiv, 03040, Ukraine ' National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine, Faculty of Land Management, 17 Vasylkivska Str., Kyiv, 03040, Ukraine ' National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine, Faculty of Land Management, 17 Vasylkivska Str., Kyiv, 03040, Ukraine ' National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine, Faculty of Land Management, 17 Vasylkivska Str., Kyiv, 03040, Ukraine ' Department for Land Management, Land Use and Land Protection, The State Service of Ukraine for Geodesy, Cartography and Cadastre, 3 Narodnoho Opolchennya Str., Kyiv, 03151, Ukraine

Abstract: In the example of Ukraine, it has been studied the conditions of ever-growing popularity of new forms of indirect control over land resources in the field of agriculture, when agricultural enterprises do not acquire any property rights or the rights on land use and, instead, they tend to use land plots of the subsidiary companies that act as nominee land users. The research findings have shown that the traditional forms of state regulation of the agricultural land market are currently losing their effectiveness. Furthermore, land right acquisition is more and more often being fulfilled not by buying land plots but through acquiring corporate rights for the companies that own or use land nominally. The directions of control improvement over economic concentration of land resources in agriculture have been substantiated in the conducted research.

Keywords: agricultural land market; agroholding; agricultural lands; corporate enterprises; economic concentration; Ukraine.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBG.2020.109029

International Journal of Business and Globalisation, 2020 Vol.25 No.3, pp.378 - 395

Received: 07 Jun 2018
Accepted: 09 Sep 2018
Published online: 17 Aug 2020 *

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