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DOI: 10.15862/23FAOR425 (https://doi.org/10.15862/23FAOR425)

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Lunev A.A. Reclaiming unused agricultural land as a factor in improving the sustainability of the Russian agricultural complex. Russian journal of resources, conservation and recycling. 2025; 12(s4). Available at: https://resources.today/PDF/23FAOR425.pdf (in Russian). DOI: 10.15862/23FAOR425

Reclaiming unused agricultural land as a factor in improving the sustainability of the Russian agricultural complex

Lunev Alexey Andreevich
Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia
E-mail: 241570@edu.fa.ru; aland.02@mail.ru

Abstract. Agricultural land resources are a fundamental factor in ensuring the country’s food security and the strategic sustainability of agricultural production. Meanwhile, a significant portion of Russia’s arable land has remained unused for decades: the total area of unused land in Russia is estimated at approximately 44 million hectares, of which approximately 20 million hectares is arable land. This situation stands in stark contrast to the ambitious national goals of increasing agricultural production by at least 25 % and increasing agricultural exports to $55,2 billion by 2030. This article is devoted to a comprehensive study of the problem of returning fallow and abandoned agricultural land to economic circulation as a tool for increasing the sustainability of the domestic agro-industrial complex. The object of study is unused agricultural land resources of the Russian Federation; the subject is the combination of economic, institutional, and organizational conditions that determine the possibilities and limitations of their inclusion in productive activities. The central result of the author’s work is an original classification of barriers hindering the development of fallow lands, differentiated into four groups: agroclimatic, economic, institutional, and infrastructural. This systematization allows for the targeted differentiation of management measures applicable to specific regional contexts, as the concentration of unused land is significantly uneven: the most significant tracts are concentrated in the Non-Black Earth Region, several districts of the Volga Region, and the Altai Territory, while the southern Black Earth regions are almost entirely utilized. The scientific novelty of this study lies in the author’s differentiated classification of barriers based on four criteria, as well as in the systematization of regional factors that determine the uneven pace of land reintegration into economic circulation across the constituent entities of the Russian Federation. The practical value of this work lies in the direct application of the developed recommendations in developing regional land management strategies and improving the mechanisms of the state program «Land».

Keywords: unused agricultural land; reintegration into economic circulation; sustainability of the agro-industrial complex; food security; state program «Land»; land reclamation; fallow lands; regional economy; land resources; digitalization of land use

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