Over 1 million people became landowners during the mass privatization and reorganization of collective farms in Moldova. More than 200,000 peasant farms, second one – “Survey of farm managers”, were conducted by at import owing 1.8 ha of land each, and became the most typical economic entities farming this land. However, such fragmentation has become one of the major problems of Moldavian agriculture. Thus, in order to improve the state of the agricultural sector, the necessity of land consolidation appears. The paper discusses the most appropriate manner of land consolidation in Moldova – land leasing. The goal of the study is to reveal specifics and show the level of land lease development in Moldova. The study is primarily based on two surveys. The first one – “Lease of agricultural lands”, was conducted by the Center for Strategic Studies and Reforms (CISR). The s the authors with the financial support of the Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe (IAMO).