Transformations in agricultural land use: through changes in land functions to changes in information support for land management

The article discusses one of the aspects of the key global problems, the problem of rational land use. This problem has gained particular relevance in the context of globalization and the transition to a digital economy. It was revealed that during the transition to the digital economy, the transformation of the existing functions of land is obvious, both due to a change in society’s ideas about the global goals of humanity and the problems of globalization, and due to a change in the idea of information as the main resource of the economy. In order to achieve the global goals of mankind and overcome the problems of land use, taking into account the requirements of the digital economy, a new interpretation of the functions of the land is proposed: land as a means of ensuring food security; as a basis for urbanization and population growth, as a basic layer of economic space. Digital information cadastral resources should become a mechanism that will allow us to overcome information barriers (global land use problems) to achieve the global goals of mankind in terms of land use. Such resources should be the development of accounting systems of state and use of land and accumulate direct or derived characteristics of a specific land use, allowing to assess the degree of performance of a land plot of certain functions, as well as the ecological/economic state of land use.