Abstract:
There were studied and evaluated the farmland abandonment in the EU states and in the Republic of Moldova, determined the driving forces and risk factors for this phenomenon that depend on the social, economical and political context, recognized the following forms of farmland abandonment: actual, transitional and semi-abandonment. Though now the area of the abandoned land in Moldova is about 1.5 % of all agricultural land, their area increases quickly. A number of theoretical and practical problems demanding examination and solution in the future are discussed. The eventual proposals such as land consolidation, Land bank institution, legal network development are done.