Land Consolidation as a Tool in Reshaping Natural Resources Governance to Achieve Long-Term Sustainability and Accountability in BiH
Fahro Belko
Particular concern for governments in Bosnian agriculture and the country?s foreign trade with the world is its positioning in a way that would give it a competitive edge over the neighboring countries. This, coupled with low productivity on many properties, lack of knowledge and poor care for soils, force a significant strain on land with no dramatic changes in the country?s position in its foreign trade. Making a problem more complex is a significant occurernce of land abandonment in many communities. Land consolidation in the past yielded significant results that are sustained to these days. These past experiences, coupled with latest findings could be a toolbox that might help governments achieve a goal of better managing both public and private lands, with governing bodies taking the role of trustees in case where no other option is viable. This could lead to better protection of land as a common natural inheritance, bearing in mind that concept elaborated in this paper is based on the premise that its implementation follow in the path of knowledge based new economy with hopes that it would help the country improve its foreign trade score eventually.
Event: Symposium on Land Consolidation and Readjustment for Sustainable Development
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