FAO’s Land Tenure Notes provide information on land tenure in a format that can be used by grassroots organizations that work with small farmers and others in rural communities. Improving secure access to land by the rural poor is essential in order to reduce poverty and hunger and to promote sustainable rural development. Improving people’s knowledge of their rights to land is an important part of making rights real, thereby allowing them to improve their livelihoods.
Fair and secure leasing arrangements that balance the interests of the tenant and the land owner can lead to improvements in access to land for farming, better agricultural production and improved access to food. This guide is intended primarily to support those who work with small farmers by providing information on “good practices” for leasing land, and advice on how this information could be adapted to fit local conditions. In addition, some farmers, whether tenants or land owners, may find this guide useful even without its adaptation.
The information in this guide is based on FAO’s Land
Tenure Studies Number 2: “Good practice guidelines for agricultural leasing
arrangements”. This document is available
at:
http://www.fao.org/DOCREP/004/Y2560E/Y2560E00.HTM
More information on the Land Tenure Studies, and on FAO’s work in land
tenure, is available at: http://www.fao.org/sd/LTdirect/ltstudies_en.htm
http://www.fao.org/sd/IN1_en.htm
