Protection of agricultural land in accordance with the provisions of the Algerian Planning and Development Law

Abstract

This study aims to identify the mechanisms for protecting agricultural lands stipulated in the Planning and Development Law,

and to highlight their effectiveness in protecting agricultural lands, considering them a non-renewable resource and the foundation upon which the national economy is built, within an international system that maintains dominance for the strongest in terms of producing consumer needs and achieving food self-sufficiency in consumer goods.

Through the Planning and Development Law, it appears that this law aims primarily to produce lands suitable for development, taking into account the specific characteristics of some distinctive regions such as protected sites and agricultural lands. The study concluded with a number of results, including that this law established important protective mechanisms for agricultural lands, which would protect them from all the dangers to which they were exposed, although these mechanisms were in some cases subject to violation by legislative intervention, which made them limited in performance.