FAO participates in the Master in Sustainable Land Planning

Submitted by laborate on Mon, 27/12/2010 - 15:10 GMT.

Richard Eberlin, Land Tenrure Officer at FAO's regional office in Budapest, participated in the Master in Sustainable Land Planning, addressing the structural situation in West Asia and Central and Eastern Europe countries.

In the lessons taught by Mr. Eberlin the processes of land restitution and privatization after the fall of the Berlin Wall were explained as well as problems caused by current land fragmentation. It was also shown how land management tools, such as comprehensive land consolidation or land banks, are being used in a general framework for rural development.

That framework includes a Technical Report on Land Banks, a document whose writing was encouraged by the FAO and in which members of the research group LaboraTe, of the University of Santiago de Compostela, as well as the technical staff do the Land Bank of Galicia (Bantegal) had an important share in. In many countries of Eastern Europe Bantegal is seen as a model to explore and, in fact, pilot projects already exist.

Richard Eberlin also advanced master's students the possibility to do stays at their organization, both in the offices of Rome and Budapest, and to collaborate and to get a firsthand knowledge about land tenure and rural development activities that FAO is driving internationally.

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