The main directions of the development of land legislation in the context of global sustainable development goals and national environmental development goals require that the legislator focus on fixing new environmental challenges that have a long and pronounced manifestation, in particular, desertification, as well as identifying organizational and legal forms of leveling negative trends, restoring the qualitative natural characteristics of land resources, which is a top priority. and the current direction of the development of land legislation, designed to ensure a level of legal protection adequate to the state of the land.