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This study presents an analysis of the functioning of real estate data registration systems in Poland and Ukraine, with a particular focus on the registration of property rights. It examines the historical development of these systems, their current structures, and the existing mechanisms for data exchange between them. The analysis also identifies key challenges related to interoperability and data consistency. The investigation revealed that in Poland, the real estate cadastre and the land register operate as separate systems under the authority of different institutions, despite recording overlapping information. To address issues of data integration, the Integrated Real Estate Information System was introduced to enable the exchange and verification of data between these registers and other public databases. In Ukraine, three independent systems manage real estate data: the State Land Cadastre, the State Register of Real Rights, and the archival records maintained by the Bureau of Technical Inventory (BTI). This fragmentation undermines the completeness and reliability of real estate information, complicating administrative procedures. The findings of this study highlight the urgent need to develop comprehensive legal frameworks and implement advanced technical solutions in both countries to reconcile discrepancies across real estate registers. The research also points to the substantial potential of integrated information systems to deliver accurate, consistent, and up-to-date property data. Empowering such systems with appropriate legal authority and functional capabilities would significantly improve the reliability, transparency, and efficiency of real estate information management.

The level of participation and performance of water user associations (WUAs) in drained and irrigated areas is influenced by many factors. This paper aims to identify the main challenges to the functioning and performance of these associations in Poland and Ukraine using the methodology of international comparative analysis. We examined legal, organizational, and financial framework of WUAs performance in Poland and Ukraine based on selected case study areas. The results of the study indicate that creation of WUAs in both countries can be assessed as beneficial for sustainable water development in general. However, it is found that the actions intended to bring benefits can actually exacerbate the problem of drought and water shortages. Research shows that the lack of complete documentation on the layout of the drainage networks plays a huge constraint factor that can lead to problems with controlling the reconstruction of drainage networks and significant deterioration of water relations. Another significant problem is the restriction of the scope of WUA activities in Poland to those types of actions subsidized by the state, while lacking financial resources for other necessary activities.

Modern agricultural landscapes produce multiple ecosystem services. Ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes have social, economic, and environmental value—providing a wide array of benefits to society. Absence of scientifically based and practically tested methodologies of identification, mapping, and evaluation of ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes hamper integration of its values in the current system of land use planning. The value of ecosystem services is calculated for the case study territory located within the administrative borders of Kolomak Territorial Community in Bohodukhiv district, Kharkiv region (Ukraine). The highest estimated value among non-market ecosystem services is carbon storage service, and among market services—food production. The baseline scenario of land use (business as usual) is compared with two alternative scenarios (Scenario 1. Land reclamation scenario; Scenario 2. Land protection and bioenergy production scenario). Designing of an integrated production system in the forest agro-landscape, which combines multiple ecosystem services, allows us to attain maximum results in terms of value. Amelioration of agricultural landscape through establishing a system of protective forest shelterbelts allows society to increase the total value of ecosystem services, and this is why it should be better integrated into land use planning and land management.

The paper describes the current conditions, process, and consequences of the land reform in Ukraine, and goes on to determine their impact on the support for sustainable land management. The research reveals the importance of land development as the main instrument for sustainable land management in Ukraine, which should involve implementation of land policy, organization of rational use and protection of land, land improvement, crop-engineering, and anti-erosion measures. In the present paper, we argue for the measures of sustainable management, which are secured by the development of the programs of land organization, and we present technical and economic reasoning for the use and protection of land in administrative-territorial units, land development projects, as well as environmental and economic arguments for crop rotation and land management, implemented within work projects of land organization at regional, provincial and local levels. Structural instability of the establishment of agrarian formations of a new type, which are basically grounded in the fundamentals of land lease, is caused by a permanent delay on the moratorium for the sale of land parcels by the owners of land shares. It forces most of those owners to engage in economic activity without any pre-existing projects of land organization, which would provide ecologically safe organization of the leased land exploitation. Nowadays, the use of the leased land parcels, and growing of agricultural crops on those parcels, is performed mainly according to the market conjuncture and without any management methods, which would be necessary for securing land protection and maintaining soil fertility.

The scientific article reveals peculiarities of the new administrative-territorial organization under conditions of decentralization of power in Ukraine, highlights the main stages of establishment of amalgamated territorial communities, conditions of the existing and future formation of them. It is argued that efficient development of corresponding territories requires financial decentralization and cession of agricultural land parcels of state ownership to communal holding. The research presents an algorithm of cession of agricultural lands of state ownership to communal possessing by corresponding amalgamated territorial communities. Such step will supply formation of clear and transparent revenue of local budgets in terms of payment for lands and will stimulate economic development of amalgamated territorial communities. It is confirmed that inventory of land should become one of the key instruments of the further development of amalgamated territorial communities, because cession of state-owned agricultural land parcels to communal possessing by corresponding communities will secure improvement of economic development of the amalgamated territorial communities, as well as will attract investments.

The aim of this article is to present an overview of the Ukrainian legislation on land-use restrictions and zoning regulation. The first part focuses on general law issues concerning land-use restrictions. The second part discusses different types of land-use restrictions according to special law regulation. The third part of the article focuses on legislation concerning certain types of land-use restrictions based on planning decisions, including land-use zoning and land development.

The article identifies the implementation stages of the rural development policy in Poland and Ukraine. It clarifies basic development tendencies, research programs content and typical instruments application. The comparative assessment of the rural land use development policy in Poland and Ukraine is provided.