FAO in Armenia

Technical Workshop on awareness raising on the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure

23/11/2015

A national workshop brought together 35 participants from government, civil society, private sector and academia to discuss the use of the Voluntary Guidelines. Armenia has a well-developed legal framework for land administration and registration but the review showed that constraints still persist. The participants suggested improvements in land monitoring and land valuation where the methodology is outdated. They identified the importance of helping farmers understand the importance of updating ownership records: the State provides support to the holders of the formal land titles for small and medium-sized farms but some farmers are not entitled to the support because they did not update the ownership records when they inherited the farms. Cooperatives were suggested as a way to help develop family farms expand their production for the market. The workshop was held in Yerevan during 23-24 November 2015 and was organized and funded by FAO.