The Agrarian Natural Resource Potential and Sustainable Development of the Agrarian Nature Management of the Crimea Region

Abstract

The agricultural sector and its main component sector, agriculture, are of strategic importance in the development of the entire economy of the country, in general, and the region, in particular, as well as in solving the problems of material and social security. At the same time, agriculture is the basis of food security and socio-economic well-being of the country and the region, in particular. Agriculture is associated with the use of the natural resource potential of the country and the region in the production process and agricultural nature management. The paper analyzes the current state of the agrarian sector of the economy of Russia and Crimea, along with the main indicators of agricultural development carried out. Moreover, the author focuses on significant dynamics of agricultural production and the use of natural resources (land) in the agricultural nature management of the Republic of Crimea. In the article, the author’s approach to assessing the natural resource potential (specifically of the land resources involved in agricultural circulation, fixed and circulating assets, human capital) is shown. Namely, the article uses a methodological approach to calculate the environmental intensity of the economy of the country and regions, land intensity and land productivity in agricultural production as components of the potential for sustainable environmental and economic development. The presents a tree of strategic goals for assessing the natural resource potential and environmental and economic efficiency to ensure the sustainable development of agricultural nature management. An analysis of the components of this goal tree is carried out. The author proposes a formula for calculating the environmental and economic efficiency (EEE) of sustainable development of agricultural nature management, which complements and enriches the methodological foundations of its definition, as set forth by the authors in the economic literature. The proposed formula will help expand understanding of the calculation formula, in terms of total capital (TC), cost reflection of human capital, gross value added (GVA) growth, taking into account the impact of agricultural nature management on the state of natural resources (land and water) and the environment.