International Workshop on Land Consolidation and Land Banking

Budapest, Hungary, 08/11/2010 - 11/11/2010

ince 2007 the FAO led network of CEE countries (LANDNET) and FARLAND are connected, creating excellent conditions for exchange of knowledge and upgrading of approaches. In many European countries, instruments for land consolidation and land banking are under evaluation to cope with current and new challenges. The November 2010 workshop built on previous workshop outcomes and was organized with a financial contribution from the Netherlands government in the context of the G2G Programme, which is implemented by Agency NL. As part of this contribution DLG assisted FAO in organising two workshops (November 2010 & June 2011) on Land Market issues in Central and Eastern Europe.

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Meeting documents
	Introduction
	Agenda
	List of Participants
	Results of the wrap up session
Opening

	Introduction: International Workshop on Land Consolidation and Land Banking Richard Eberlin (FAO), Frank van Holst (DLG)
Technical session: Land-Banking-Technical Paper

	Draft Technical Paper: Land Banks and Funds - Instrument for Rural Development Richard Eberlin (FAO)
	Critical Review of the draft Francisco Onega Lopez (USC), Marcial Diaz Manso, Cristina Zolle Fernandez
Technical session: Public Land Banking
	Land Banking in Spain: A comparison between Bantegal model and other models implemented in Spain Jose Marcial Diaz Manso, Cristina Zolle Fernandez, Quico Onega Lopez
	Land banking/Land Funds: important catalysts for Land Consolidation in Sweden Mats Backman
	Lithuanian Land Fund: Evaluation criteria for positioning a land fund Frank van Holst (DLG)
Technical session: Legislative Framework of Land Consolidation/Land Banking

	A reference model for a general legislative framework Nicolai Meier
	Enabling legislation for land consolidation and land banking Margret Vidar (Legal Service, FAO)
	Selling Land by Public Authorities within EU rules Jan Spijkerboer
	Land Consolidation Projects in Turkey Gursel Kusek
	(Re)-organising land management and land banking in Lithuania Giedre Leimontaite, Audrius Petkevicius
Country reports
	Hungary Dr. Robert Sebestyen (President of National Land Fund Management Organisation)
	Lithuania Rene Gijsbertse
Related publications (The below listed three papers were avalable full text in PDF format, on the homepage of the National Land Service of Lithuania)
	Lithuanian Land Fund Edited by Frank van Holst
	Far Land Near Future The publication is the final result of INTERREG IIIC project "Future Approaches to Land Development" (FARLAND), Published by FARARLANDANDAND in collaboration with FARARLANDANDAND project partners
	FARLAND - Strategic Vision By FARLAND Team, November 2007