Title: Growing disparity in access to land as a result of agrarian reform in Ukraine

Authors: Andrii Martyn; Oleksandr Shevchenko; Ivan Openko; Oleksandr Krasnolutsky; Taras Ievsiukov; Ruslan Tykhenko; Oleg Tsvyakh

Addresses: National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukrainе, 17 Vasylkivska Str., Kyiv, 03040, Ukraine ' National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukrainе, 17 Vasylkivska Str., Kyiv, 03040, Ukraine ' National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukrainе, 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 ' National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukrainе, 17 Vasylkivska Str., Kyiv, 03040, Ukraine ' National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukrainе, 17 Vasylkivska Str., Kyiv, 03040, Ukraine ' National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukrainе, 17 Vasylkivska Str., Kyiv, 03040, Ukraine

Abstract: It has been established that the issues of agricultural land use in the post-socialist countries of Europe are becoming more acute, as land reforms there have either completed or almost completed that have resulted in large-scale privatisation or redistribution of agricultural land. Indeed, in recent years, small and medium-sized enterprises have been rapidly losing their viability, especially in non-EU countries. It has been studied that large areas of agricultural land are under control of large agricultural holdings and non-agricultural investors. In addition, the agricultural land market is being transformed into the corporate rights market of land-controlling companies, so that traditional methods of regulating land market turnover are rapidly losing their inefficiency. There is considerable interest in investing in agricultural land acquisition from 'portfolio investors', leading to a sharp rise in prices and the displacement of small and medium-sized farmers from the market.

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

DOI: 10.1504/IJBG.2025.143572

International Journal of Business and Globalisation, 2025 Vol.39 No.1, pp.44 - 66

Received: 25 Sep 2020
Accepted: 09 Mar 2021
Published online: 02 Jan 2025 *

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