Land Restitution and Compensation Procedures in Central Eastern Europe
Ossko, Andras
This draft paper has been presented at the occasion of the Symposium 'Land redistribution in Southern Africa' 6-7 November 2002, Pretoria SA. A final version of this paper will be published in February 2003.
In all countries all over the world land reforms have been a key part of the general agrarian reforms and always a top priority political issue. Back to the XX th. century history there were several land reform world wide especially after the World War I and World War II but due to dramatic political and economic changes in Central Eastern European Countries, the increasing needs for land by poors, landless rural population in Africa, South- Central America, Asia and demands for land by indigenous population in the former colonies, land reform procedures have been accelerated in CEECs after 1990 and there is a very strong political pressure and economic needs for land reforms in the developing world as well. It could be several political and economic reasons of needs of land reforms and of course the reasons are very different in different continents regions even in countries.
Event: Symposium Land Redistribution in Southern Africa
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