The object - processes of forming the sustainable development of agricultural territory and using lands at the present-day stage of developing land relations; methods - the theory of systems, in particular, methods of systemic analyses, linear programming, theory of indistinct sets, method of comparisons and analogies, the structural logical, functional, imitation modelling, monographic method and theory of management novelty - for the first time the research was carried out of inner content, connections and importance of elements of the structure of present-day system of land management, its functions and models of implemention were determined in correspondence with the sustainable development of territories and efficient use of lands, namely: factors and consequences were systematized and structuralized of forming land relations, problems, factors and methodological principles were determined of land management, direct and reverse hierarchical models were developed of land management system, by hierarchical levels were determined the quantitative values of the relative importance of models elements; the functional model was developed of land management system and the method of its implementation was suggested; the model was established for controlling the organization of sustainable land management on the basis of cadastre, monitoring and information support for land management; the model was built of the system "agricultural territory" its basic components and connections between them were determined, models were established of the efficient use of tilled land preserving the humus condition of soils; the model was developed of the sustainable development of agricultural territory, the impact of land management measures was determined on achieving the efficient use of the territory; the method was developed for the diagnostics of lands condition, of the technology for creating geospatial cadastre data, of basic and profile sets of geospatial data for land management, of the functional model of arranging the territory of agricultural land use on the basis of GIS-technologies; the issues were further developed of zoning of landscape organization, of optimizing the use of the resourсe potential of agricultural territory and of improving the land management documentation; branch- technical.
