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Mauritania | Concrete solutions for improving youth’s access to land

- IPAR. National multi-stakeholder workshop on access to land for youth, 29 April 2025, Nouakchott.
Young people's access to land is a key issue in Mauritania, which is at the crossroads of various issues such as food security but also the training of young people, the development of employment in the agricultural sector, and young people's access to consultation frameworks. Indeed, access to land is a crucial factor for the development of rural youth: it allows them to have a source of income, participate in the development of their community and to contribute to the local economy.
For this reason, the fourth workshop of the National Multi-Stakeholder Platform (MSP) on Land, chaired by the Ministry of Economy and Finance and held on 29 and 30 April 2025 in Nouakchott, focused primarily on building the capacity of various stakeholders regarding young people's access to land, the related issues, the challenges they face, and the collective pursuit of solutions.
This intergenerational and multi-stakeholder dialogue provided young people with a platform to voice their concerns, propose solutions, and offer advocacy points aimed at ensuring that national land reform addresses their needs. Many proposals for improving the current situation were validated by the workshop participants like: i) better consultation and inclusion of young people in natural resource governance frameworks; ii) capacity building of young people on land governance in particular on the steps to be followed to access land; iii) the simplification of land security procedures, iv) the realization of a participative land mapping, which involves listing the land, its owners, and the land arrangements relating to this land (loans, leases, easements, etc.) with information relevant to their development (sown and unsown areas); v) Establish mechanisms for equitable access to land: define a quota of land for young people and women in each collective development and create a fund to support the payment of agricultural rents.

- IPAR. National multi-stakeholder workshop on access to land for youth, 29 April 2025, Nouakchott.
This workshop is part of the inclusive land reform process started by the Mauritanian government in 2016, aimed at adapting its legal instruments to improve food security and achieve the SDG 1, SDG 2 and SDG 15in rural areas. To support this initiative, a national multi-stakeholder platform on land governance has been established, bringing together governmental and non-governmental actors.
In 2023, FAO initiated the revitalization of the national multi-stakeholder platform on land governance, along with two local platforms and support for three regional transhumance committees. This initiative aims to foster dialogue and prevent conflicts over natural resources’ access. Three national workshops were held in 2023 and 2024, co-organized by the Organization for the Development of Arid and Semi-Arid Zones (ODZASAM) and the Agricultural and Rural Foresight Initiative (IPAR), focusing on reaffirming the platform’s role, promoting women and youth inclusion, and governing pastoral lands.

- IPAR. Panel with Youth representatives from four regions, 30 April 2025, Nouakchott.
The fourth workshop was jointly funded by the German Ministry of Agriculture’s project on local land governance inclusiveness and the Peacebuilding Fund’s project on creating green jobs for youth in rural and peri-urban areas of Hodh El Chargui, Trarza, and Nouakchott.
Participants included members from the national MSP, members from the local MSPs, representatives from the regional transhumance committees, technical and financial partners, and other key resource partners.
Lastly, the workshop successfully validated actions to advance land reform, in particular: i) continue institutional and interministerial coordination, building on existing collaboration with the National Technical Committee, while actively involving the Ministry of Lands, State Heritage, and Land Reform; ii) engage the platform in organizing a general assembly on land tenure to promote an inclusive, transparent, and widely accepted land reform; iii) establish an advocacy unit to support reform efforts; and iv) collaborate with parliamentarians to jointly advance the platform’s advocacy initiatives.
