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Members and partners of the Access to Land network are expanding their alliances with local authorities to put land at the service of the common good. They recently published an online handbook and organised an international seminar to discuss the role of local authorities in securing farmland (...)

Soil and how it is being treated, agricultural land and how it is used and by whom – such questions did not raise mainstream interest in the past. But things are changing, public awareness is increasing and promising new initiatives are popping up. One of these new initiatives is Lenteland, a (...)

Spanish Ministry of Agriculture published a summary report on the question on access to land after a consultation process including a wide range of actors from various sectors.

The very beginning of the year (05-07 Jan. 2022) marks the time again for the Oxford Real Farming Conference (ORFC). Originally conceived as a hybrid affair, combining an in-person conference with a smaller onliine conference - the content boosted by livestreaming sessions from the in-person (...)

Since 2020, members of the Access to Land network have organised a series of webinars to present some of our publications, explore practical topics or present and debate policy issues. Webinars on practical topics, for instance, explore how to assess environmental, social and economic impact (...)

The wish to share experience and jointly buildup professional skills around land issues brought together eight land organisations from across Europe in a three-year (2018-2021) EU-funded partnership (Erasmus +) Setting up a learning platform. The project was a collaboration between (...)

"Farmers without Land? New opportunities through community land ownership" was the title of a conference organised by Kulturland jointly with two other German networks (Netzwerk Flächensicherung and Netzwerk Landwirtschaft ist Gemeingut) in Berlin. The topic of land was illuminated with a focus (...)

Eco Ruralis and Shared Assets are amongst the partners across Europe currently working on the RURALIZATION project, funded by Horizon 2020. In 2021, these organisations worked together closely on two related ‘innovative land actions’ about council or common farmland in the England and Romania. (...)

From September 2018 to February 2021, seven European and national level organisations working in various fields joined forces to build and disseminate strategic knowledge about land strategies for agroecology and food sovereignty. They collaborated in an Erasmus + partnership called (...)

The Irish Regenerative Land Trust is emerging to secure land-as-commons for new entrants engaging in social and regenerative approaches such as the development of agroecology, conservation, social service, or housing projects.