The Access to Land Country Report on Bulgaria explores how three decades of rapid liberalisation have reshaped the country’s agricultural landscape.
Our Network
The Access to Land network (A2L) brings together grassroots organisations from across Europe to share experiences and promote the significance of access to land for agroecological transition and generational renewal.
A2L was founded in 2012 and functions as an informal network of about 18 organisations whose aim is to ensure sustainable land use and food security in Europe.
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Latest Activities
As part of the Access to Land Network’s ongoing work to document farmland access and land policy across Europe, two new country reports examine how land governance in Poland has evolved since the post-socialist transition.
Germany’s energy transition is affecting its land market, driving investment and increasing concentration of land ownership. In this op-ed, Anne Neuber of Netzwerk Flächensicherung, an alliance working to secure land for ecological, regional and peasant agriculture in Germany, explores these dynamics and calls for stronger regulation to ensure solar expansion works in harmony with farming and environmental priorities.
In the context of the European Commission’s Strategic Dialogue on the Future of EU Agriculture, and its ongoing consultation on a new
National and European Perspectives Ukraine plays a critical role in Europe’s agricultural landscape – not only geopolitically, but also in terms of
Joint effort with ECVC A European Farmland Observatory: A Necessary Step for Land Justice Access to land is at the heart of
Join the Conference on Access to Land and Agroecology – 18th March 2025, Kyiv A Key Moment for Land and Agroecology in
Join Us for the A2L Seminar on Access to Land and the Common Agricultural Policy! The Access to Land Network is excited
Video on the Seminar published 🌍 Agriculture & Biodiversity: A European Seminar for Change 🌾 From November 4. to 6. 2024, over
Exploring the Links Between the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and Land Issues The report “Exploring the Links Between the EU Common
We’ve recently wrapped up a series of webinars that focused on the crucial role of land access in Europe’s transition to agroecological
3 packed days to get better in what we do. From 19.06.2024 to 21.06.2024, members of the Access to Land (A2L) network
Land market in Ukraine – Who is it made for? Land market in Ukraine Finding the right timing to act!? Making the
We are addressing young people involved in rural development activities, who want to discover or improve their knowledge and their know-how in
Watch our Webinar with Maria Noichl talking about challenges in EU legislations for land and agroecology Maria Noichl explains in detail her
Access to land is a cornerstone of a European transition towards agroecological farming This project will reinforce our cooperation on the European
Making Farmland Work for the Public Good Seminar, Brussels March 2023 Members and partners of the Access to Land network are expanding
De Landgenoten recently had the pleasure of receiving the monthly Open Space Cup for its report on the obstacles in the Flemish
A new land initiative emerging in the Netherlands Soil and how it is being treated, agricultural land and how it is used
The Access to land member organisation from Czech Republic A 15-min video interview with Hana Bernardova from Nadace Pro půdu (Foundation for
by Véronique Rioufol, coordinator of the European Access to Land Network August 2012. Some thirty participants from Belgium, Germany, Lithuania, Italy, Spain,
A view from the ground Since the start of the war in Ukraine, much has been said of the dramatic human and
by Thomas Kliemt-Rippel, Kulturland What would an organization look like, where decisions are not made top down, but rather each person in
How Terre-en-vue is engaging with public authorities on land issues in Belgium Installing or stabilizing farmers on communal lands, aligning new regulations
A case study by Terre de Liens in Alsace region/France Many churches across Europe are landholders and real estate owners. Over an
In early 2020 the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture started to investigate the question of access to land. They invited experts from a
UK’s annual agroecology event went global again The very beginning of the year (05-07 Jan. 2022) marks the time again for the
Outreach for topics to be discussed in a 2022 webinar series (spring and autumn) Since 2020, members of the Access to Land
A three-year joint learning experience (2018-2021) The wish to share experience and jointly buildup professional skills around land issues brought together eight
Symposium at the Heinrich-Böll-Foundation, Berlin, Germany (26.01.2022) “Farmers without Land? New opportunities through community land ownership” was the title of a conference
Call to the International Conference of Ministers of Agriculture (Berlin, 22-Jan-2022) The Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA), an international conference
Reflections on recent work between Shared Assets and Eco Ruralis – By Kim Graham, Shared Assets Eco Ruralis and Shared Assets are amongst the 18
From September 2018 to February 2021, seven European and national level organisations working in various fields joined forces to build and disseminate
A new access to land organisation in Ireland We recently caught up with the Irish Regenerative Land Trust (IRLT) to learn more
The Oxford Real Farming Conference (ORFC) held another successful two-day conference in early January, this year with ten sessions focussed on access
A new photo exhibition and book Pulitzer prize nominated photographer Mark Neville’s new project, Parade, captures what it means to be a
A new approach of the Catalan Nature Conservation Network By Clara Blasco XCN – the Catalan Nature Conservation Network (formerly XCT) – is a
By Ruth West, Real Farming Trust The UK’s exit from the EU means no more CAP, and in its place a whole
Mobilising to save a County Farm! By Jessie Buchanan Trecadwgan Farm, a County Farm belonging to Pembrokeshire County Council (PCC) is up
Farm incubators are programmes enabling prospective farmers to set up and try out their project at scale before full committing to a
A peasant to peasant agroecology project! In the small-scale farmers’ world, P2P can stand for more than peer-to-peer and evoke a traditional
In 2019, the Access to Land Network benefited from an external evaluation offered by the Fondation de France, which has supported the
Can public land sales indirectly subsidise landowners? As with many municipalities in Europe, the municipality of Ghent, Belgium, owns farms and farmland,
New publication! Despite the growing number of land-based initiatives working for agroecological farming – 16 new organisations have been set up in
A new Erasmus + experience sharing partnership Access to Land network members and close partners AMPI (Czech Republic), Eco Ruralis (Romania), Agronauten (Germany) and
ALPA was founded in 2018 to acquire land and farms through donations and investments and rent them to agroecological farmers who wish to
The northern Evangelic Church in Germany (Evangelische Kirche Nordeutschland – EKD) are putting more and more focus on their church land. In
Support access to land for new farmers in Scotland The Scottish Farm Land Trust (SFLT) have launched a crowdfunding campaign running until the 29th
Earlier this summer, Wallonia, Belgium saw a regionwide reform of its farm tenancy legislation with the new provisions coming into effect on
New Horizon 2020 Partnership 2019-2023 Population migration from rural to urban settings has been a dominant trend in Europe since the Industrial
Launch in Paris, France – 10 October 2019 On 10 October 2019, Terre de Liens, the French Federation of Organic Farming (FNAB)
Netzwerk Flächensicherung (“Land Conservation Network”) is a German national platform founded in 2018 by seven organisations working on agriculture and access to
A new Erasmus + programme to build and disseminate strategic knowledge about land strategies for agroecology and food sovereignty. This partnership reunites
New Erasmus Partnership 2018-21 This Erasmus + program brings a focus on practical tools and skills crucial for access to land organisations.
New report! The Scottish Farm Land Trust just released its first report: Wanted: Land for New Farmers. Based on a broad survey of prospective farmers
The Directorate General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union (DG FISMA) is hosting a consultation as part of their
The issue of generational renewal in European agriculture is supposed to be high on the political agenda. Both the European Parliament and
A recent study published in the European Review of Agricultural Economics has revealed the potential inflationary impact that biogas subsidies may have on land
The path to fairer land governance in Europe reached a milestone recently, as the European Parliament approved an own initiative report that
For 15 years, farmers’ unions and social movements have been involved in the process towards the “UN Declaration on the Rights of
On World Soil Day, 5 December 2016 On 5 December, we are celebrating Worl Soil Day. Yet, European farmland experiences many pressures:
5 December 2016, Brussels On 5 December 2016, the Member of the European Parliament Maria Noichl (S&D, Germany) presents her draft report
We are happy to communicate that our documentary The Land for our Food has been accepted at the Festivall delle Terre competition and will
New Erasmus Partnership 2016-8 A new Erasmus + program aimed at sharing good practices and building the tools and skills of emerging
On 22 September, the EU-wide campaign People4Soil will start a petition to gather one million signatures asking EU institutions to adopt a
The KGT AGRAR, with more than 45.000 cultivated hectares in Germany and Lithuania one of the biggest European agricultural companies, is about
Just released! We are happy to present you our film: The Land for our Food! This 34min road movie, directed by filmmaker Julio
The International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty just released a People’s Manual on the UN Guidelines on Governance of Land to advance the land
The BioBoden Cooperative (Genossenschaft) from Germany is celebrating its first anniversary. The mission of BioBoden is to enable the preservation and further
Dear reader, interested in an exciting triology? And it is not fiction, although it is certainly shocking. It appeared recently in international
What we do
Our A2L network fosters access to land by advocating for EU policy changes. We are active all around Europe:
Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, German, Romania, Ukraine, Spain (focus on Catalonia), UK (Focus on Scotland).
Sharing values means sharing land! Access to land is key not only for Farmers today but for future generations! Citizens, policy makers, peasants and scientists – we are all dependent on transition in European farming.
Our networks aim is to secure farmland for the public good. To reach this goal we bring farmers voices to policies towards an agroecology transition.
Resources
Our network shares valuable experience with you. lt provides you with validated data and concrete examples from practice.
Contact our advocacy team if you are in need of expertise. Go to Resources
Funding
Since 2012, our work has been partially funded by EU programmes geared towards supporting adult education and research. We are currently engaged in a Horizon 2020 project (RURALIZATION). lt follows three Erasmus+ programmes (2018-10 Land Strategies, 2018-10 Learning Platform and 2014-7 Erasmus+) as well as 2012-4 Grundtvig programme.
For over seven years, we have been supported by a number of private foundations. Besides giving us financial support, they constitute key operational partners, with whom we share ideas, perspectives and activities. We thank them for their role and vision in developing the Access to land network in Europe.
