Problem of Land Rent in the Context of Sustainable Development of Agrarian Economy

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to justify the need to improve the relations of land ownership and land use in the conditions of the modern Russian market economy in the context of the existing large monopoly of private land ownership. The thesis of land monopoly as a key factor of instability in the development of agriculture and the turbulence of socio-economic relations in the field of agricultural production is substantiated. In connection with the transition of the Russian economy to market principles, the study reveals the need to change the theoretical, methodological, organizational and practical approaches to solving the problem of land rent and examines the experience of agricultural and economic science in the study of the problem of land rent in a capitalist and socialist economy. The research methodology includes the use of dialectical, structural-functional, program-targeted, historical-retrospective and hermeneutical methods of studying the problem posed. The subject of study is the process of formation and distribution of land (natural) rent in Russian agriculture. The object of research is Russian agriculture and the emerging socio-economic relations. The novelty of the study is as follows: the provision on the interdependence of the scale of land monopoly and the existence of absolute land rent is argued; the nature of the transformation of absolute land rent in the form of natural rent in the conditions of modern large private land ownership is revealed; the relationship between the formation and distribution of land rent and the concept of sustainable development of agriculture is revealed. Recommendations are formulated in the field of making the necessary adjustments to the current Russian agrarian legislation, in particular, to clarify the text of the federal law of the Russian Federation «On Subsoil» and the effective distribution of land rent for the needs of expanded agricultural reproduction and ensuring its sustainable development.