Applying Strategic Land Management For Ensuring Food Security In The Region

Abstract

The article uses strategic management tools to show the relationship between the state of land relations in the region and the goals of ensuring food security. The relevance of the research is determined by the possibilities to use balanced scorecard in order to harmonize economic and non-economic goals of land management in agriculture in the framework of the provision of food security in the region. Achieving the goals of food security in the region depends on many factors, and the effectiveness of land relations at different levels of government plays an important role in this process. The aim is to systematize the strategic indicators of land management as a mechanism for ensuring food security in the region. The research methodology is based on the use of a balanced scorecard as a model for structuring the goals of land management at the level of state and municipal authorities in the region. A balanced scorecard for land management in the region was created to ensure food security, and a link between various areas of the regional governance system was established. The research methods made it possible to combine in one system both economic and non-economic guidelines for strategic management of land relations. The proposed system of balanced land management indicators makes food security strategy more transparent. The model can be used by regions to develop a model for land management in the framework of the provision of food security and organization of effective control of land management at the municipal level.

Keywords: Balanced scorecard, food security, land management, land resources, strategic maps

Introduction

The basis of food security is agricultural production, the efficiency of which is determined primarily by the land suitable for agricultural use. Over the past 20 years, the foundations of a new land system have actually been created in Russia. This new land system is characterized by a new legislative and regulatory framework, variety of forms of land ownership, mixed and paid land us, provision of rural population with land plots and a new system of cadastre and registration of land rights. The system of land relations in the agrarian sector of economy that has developed over the years of reforms is characterized by a number of features, namely, the incompleteness of the process of the formation of the institute of land ownership, bureaucratic mechanisms to manage land, a decrease in the quality of land resources and insufficient financing of measures in the field of land use. The reasons for this state of affairs are largely explained by political, managerial and institutional spheres. This research is driven by the need to combine strategic land management landmarks in agriculture at the regional level in order to ensure food security through a balanced scorecard. It is assumed that the provision of food security at the regional level depends on the balance of strategic objectives of land management at the institutional level.

Problem Statement

The provision of food security, according to many researchers, is a strategic task, the solution of which depends on many factors (Shchetinina et al., 2019). One of these factors is the steady growth of the agricultural sector of economy. Land is the main means of production in agriculture, since without land it is impossible to conduct the reproduction process in the industry, and, therefore, to create food and raw materials (Shafeev, 2011). The use of land as the most important object of social and economic ties in society is a rather multifaceted and complex phenomenon.

The classical scheme of land relations assumes the presence of 3 subjects of these relations: a land owner, a tenant and a producer (a hired worker). Due to the peculiarities of its functioning, land is also an object of state regulation and public interests. The strategic goals of the subjects of land relations in agriculture are often multidirectional and contradict each other. One of the ways to resolve this contradiction can be the improvement of the mechanism of land management in agro-industrial complex (Kresnikova, 2017; Novikov & Panova, 2014). The authors believe that the achievement of food security goals is possible in case of a balance of external and internal interests of all participants in land relations, which, in turn, should be easily identifiable and understandable.

Research Questions

The subject of the research is the system of balanced indicators of land management as a model for the implementation of food security in the region. The balanced scorecard is a set of optimally selected indicators that reflect both financial and non-financial aspects of the activities of research objects. Grouping strategic indicators allows building a strategic map of the region, which connects the development guidelines of the regional system with internal business processes and individual actions at each level of management of the regional system (Kutsenko, 2015). During the development of a system of strategic indicators for land management in regional agriculture, three levels can be distinguished: state and municipal authorities, landowners and land users and population. The paper provides a balanced scorecard for institutional management, which is presented in the study by state and municipal authorities that implement land policy in the region in economic, organizational, technological, socio-political and environmental spheres.

Purpose of the Study

The aim of the study is to systematize the strategic indicators of land management as a mechanism for ensuring food security in the region.

Research Methods

The research methodology is based on the methodology of R. Kaplan and D. Norton, who developed the algorithm and formats for strategic maps based on a balanced scorecard (as cited in Myasnyankina et al., 2018). Initially, the technology was used to assess the strategy of organization, now more and more authors agree that the system of strategic indicators is universal and can be applied to any level of management (Alekseeva & Kuznetsova, 2017; Kutsenko, 2015; Masino & Rastov, 2015).

The idea of the method is in the fact that the balanced scorecard allows formulating and displaying effective ways of strategic development, coordinating strategic goals through a chain of cause and effect relationships (Kapitsa, 2012).

Findings

The region as a set of subjects of management was chosen as an object of research. The list of goals of land management at the level of state and municipal authorities is presented in Table 01.

During the determination of key indicators for each goal, we rely on the indicators of the Food Security Doctrine of the Russian Federation, the Economic Security Strategy of the Russian Federation for the period until 2030, the Development Strategy for the Orenburg Region until 2020 and for the period until 2030 and other national projects.

The balanced scorecard for state and municipal authorities is presented in Table 02.

Conclusion

In conclusion it is stated that it is obvious that the achievement of the goals of food security of the regional population depends on the achievement of intermediate goals of land management at the institutional level. The balanced scorecard made it possible to connect the strategic interests of the subjects of land relations and the food security of the regional population and to identify the cause-and-effect relationships between them. The provision of food security directly depends on the efficiency of land management at all levels, the rational use of the land fund by all participants in land relations, the productivity of agricultural production, which in turn depends on the qualitative and quantitative characteristics of the resources, as well as on compliance with the principles of environmental safety.

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