Opening speech
Magel, Holger
Ladies and gentlemen, two years after the world congress rural 21 in Potsdam in June 2000, arranged by the German Federal Government and with the outstanding keynote speaker FAO Director General Jacques Diouf, once again there is an important international symposium in Germany on the future of rural areas. I would like to remind you of the Potsdam Declaration rural 21 of 7 June 2000, which strongly underlined the need of secure tenure, access to land and resources, functioning land markets, sustainable reforming and reorganisation of property relations and of comprehensive rural development strategies. It was emphasised: Modern Land Management requires legal and planning certainty concerning the property and use of land.
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