EU Working Group on Land Issues

Wetlands—including peatlands, mangroves, rivers, lakes, salt marshes, and seagrass beds—are vital for biodiversity and form a cornerstone of the EU Water Strategy. They deliver essential provisioning, regulating, and cultural...

Land tenure systems are of fundamental importance for efficient agricultural production, reducing poverty and conflicts and attaining social equity. Considering their complexity and sensibility, they are essential for securing...

Land tenure security is crucial for women's empowerment and a prerequisite for building secure and resilient communities. Tenure is affected by many and often contradictory sets of rules, laws, customs, traditions, and perceptions...

Chers collègues Je vous invite à prendre connaissance de l'avis du Comité économique et social européen sur le thème «L’accaparement des terres: une sonnette d’alarme pour l’Europe et une menace imminente pour l’agriculture...

The Middle East / North Africa (MENA) region is perhaps best known in the world over time as a veritable crossroad, where traders, political powers, resource extractors and external agents have vied for strategic advantages...

Since the mid-1990s, Giz provides technical support related to land administration and management in different countries of the region: Georgia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serba, Montenegro, Kosovo and others. The paper shows how this...

Land is a limited resource and yet an indispensable resource for meeting the social, economic and environmental demands and targets. The growing development associated by the growing population and the associated urbanization and...