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Galician Observatory of Land Mobility

The Galician Observatory of Land Mobility was created under the agreement signed on December 29, 2016 by the Regional Ministry of Rural Affairs, the Galician Agency for Rural Development, the Galician Agricultural Guarantee Fund (FOGGA), the Galician Tax Agency, the Institute for Land Studies, the Juana de Vega Foundation, and the University of Santiago de Compostela.

This Observatory was established with the goal of collecting, processing, and disseminating annual information on the mobility of rural land in Galicia. Its purpose is to improve market transparency and to better understand the dynamics affecting this land at parish/municipal scale and across the Autonomous Community of Galicia as a whole. The ultimate aim is twofold: to support the design and implementation of public policies that promote better use of land and territorial resources, and to provide data that help guide decision‑making by private stakeholders.

In addition to this systematic annual information on prices and land mobility, the Observatory may also generate additional information requested by the entities and organisations that form part of it, within their respective areas of competence. It may also organise workshops or discussion forums to disseminate information on land mobility, as well as carry out thematic studies related to land and its use by the different productive sectors of rural Galicia.

Origin

The Galician Observatory of Land Mobility has its origin in previous work carried out between 2013 and 2014 by the Juana de Vega Foundation, the Galician Agency for Rural Development (AGADER), and the University of Santiago de Compostela: “Property, Land Mobility and Territorial Valorisation.” One of its main objectives was to design an institutional, technical, and technological protocol to improve the characterisation and understanding of land mobility in Galicia, with the aim of analysing and understanding land markets, the effects they have on the productive mobilisation of agricultural land, and, through this, on the flexibility and efficiency of primary production.

This project concluded that the most suitable sources for obtaining systematic and up‑to‑date information on land mobility dynamics in Galicia are the data directly managed by the Land Bank and the information derived from the Property Transfer Tax and Stamp Duty. Additionally, the integration of data from the Cadastral Geographic Information System (SIXCA) and the Agricultural Parcel Geographic Information System (SIXPAC) allows for an approximation to non‑documented land‑mobility mechanisms, such as verbal lease agreements, informal transfers and/or exchanges. Finally, the analysis of indicators in relation to variables from the REAGA or the Soil Productive Aptitude Map, among others, provides a systematic approach for assessing potential supply and demand, as well as for characterising key indicators (such as price) based on structural and agronomic variables.

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