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.