Land governance for development in Central and Eastern Europe: Land fragmentation and land consolidation as part of Sustainable Development Goals
FRANK VAN HOLST, MORTEN HARTVIGSEN et all
Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO.nl), Netherlands, FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia, University of Santiago de Compostela
Most transition countries in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) face enormous challenges in developing a viable land structure, requiring a set of measures which is unprecedented in its scale and intensity to speed
up this process. Analysis of policy initiatives in CEE countries illustrates that options for solving fragmentation and small scale of farms have concentrated on particular instruments like land consolidation and land banking. From discussions in the expert network LANDNET it can be concluded that land governance in CEE countries has scope for better coherence and more balanced and focused use
of various instruments. Land governance should be developed as a comprehensive framework of mutually
supportive instruments for development.
Framing of land fragmentation as part of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is believed to be a
useful way to come to more specific policies in CEE countries and other regions of the world.
Event: Land Governance in an Interconnected World_Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty_2018
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