Land management and cadastral support for agricultural land governance in the new regions of the Russian Federation

The article presents the results of a study aimed at analyzing land management and cadastral support in the new regions of the Russian Federation and proposing measures for their effective integration into the national agricultural system. Currently, state and land policies highlight key issues concerning the inclusion of agricultural lands and their associated farmlands into economic and commercial circulation. Achieving these objectives in the new territories of the Russian Federation – the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics, as well as the Kherson and Zaporozhzhia regions – requires a comprehensive approach to land management and cadastral support, taking into account geopolitical, economic, and social factors. These include the ongoing martial law in these territories, the lack of data on land quality and the assessment of war-related damage, the absence of a significant number of cadastral and legal documents for land plots, and the challenges of conducting fieldwork near active combat zones, among others. The authors propose mechanisms for integrating these territories into the national agricultural system, developing qualitative characteristics of lands suitable for agricultural use, and establishing conditions to ensure the country’s food security in fulfillment of the strategic objectives set by the Government of the Russian Federation. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the authors' proposals for a phased implementation of land management and cadastral measures aimed at zoning the new territories.