Ukrainian Journal of Forest and Wood Science

The role and place of windbreaks in the sustainable functioning of agricultural landscapes are describes. Negative factors that reduce the effectiveness of the protection of agricultural areas by agroforestry plantings have been established. The current state of windbreaks was analyzed and ways to improve it was pointed. The recommendations for the improvement of the legal status of windbreaks in the context of agrarian reform are done, namely in the development of land market mechanisms to provide preservation of windbreaks, without changing the purpose of land under them; develop a legal framework for the use and implementation of forest management in the windbreaks; introduce to the staff list of the agricultural departments of districts specialists in agroforestry and put them in coordinating the protection, conservation and maintenance of field windbreaks; organize agroforestry monitoring of windbreaks.

field protective afforestation, agroforestry, windbreaks, forest-agricultural landscapes, current status, legal status, efficiency, agroforestry monitoring