FIG Working Week 2000, 21-26 May, Prague
Abstracts 



Farm Land Rationalisation and Land Consolidation: Strategies for Multifunctional Use of Rural Spacein Eastern and Central Europe

by Dr. James Riddell and Dr. Fritz Rembold

Key words: Land fragmentation, village renewal, rural development, land use planning, stakeholder participation. 


Abstract

After 50 years of collectivisation, countries in Central and Eastern Europe CEE have made significant progress in the devolution of state-owned real estate to private urban and rural owners. This restitution of private property is considered a cornerstone for a future democratic, market economy and integration. Thus, priority was given to speed up the re-privatisation process, secure land tenure and property rights and develop land markets. Notwithstanding the remarkable success of the land reform process, land fragmentation emerged as a side effect with detrimental implications for private and public investments, sustainable economic growth and social development. Consequently less-favoured and least-developed regions with economies still depending on agriculture have been witnessing negative growth rates, soaring unemployment, mounting rural poverty and as a result, serious social and economic disintegration and wide-spread disappointment among local actors and stakeholders. This paper presents current work in progress of FAO and its partners to design, develop and test an integrated strategy for land consolidation, village melioration and rural development in representative locations in selected CEE Member Nations.


Dr James Riddell, Chief  
Land Tenure Services
Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations
Room B-513
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla
I-00100 Rome
Italy
E-mail Jim.Riddell@fao.org

Dr Fritz Rembold
Land Tenure Services
Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla
I-00100 Rome
Italy
E-mail:
Fritz.Rembold@fao.org



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