The main objective of developing an integrated indicator for comparing land use
and rural areas of Ukraine (third methodological approach) is to ensure the possibility
of ranking these areas in order to reduce their potential and thus define "depressed"
regions for granting state aid.
Monitoring and evaluating of the agricultural land use sustainability involves
periodic monitoring of relevant indicators based on available official statistics, central
authorities information, local authorities on the basis of monitoring, the ranking of
regions of Ukraine by comparing the obtained results with their best results.
Monitoring and evaluating of the agricultural land sustainability are conducted
to monitor the process of sustainable agricultural development goals implementation,
problems’ identification of regions agricultural land use and their causes, improving
the efficiency of administrative decisions of central executive authorities, local
authorities.
Taken into account the goals and objectives of monitoring, we can identify four
stages of monitoring and evaluating of the agricultural land use sustainability (Fig. 1).
Figure 1 – The Monitoring and Evaluating Stages of the Ukrainian Regions'
Agricultural Land Use Sustainability
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determining the list of relevant indicators (partial criteria)
ІІ stage
calculation of indicators, monitoring their dynamics
ІІІ stage
implementation of the regions rating (ranking) for each
indicator and calculation of the overall rating assessment
ІV stage
assessment of relevance of the results to the sustainable
development goals
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