Training guides, webinars, videos, and other learning materials for members and the public (again labeling the objective)
In the heart of the Vosges, the Runtzenbach family’s organic farm faces a generational crossroads. This intimate documentary follows their struggle to preserve a legacy that could shape tomorrow’s agriculture—one seed at a time.
FIAN Europe and the Access to Land Network have submitted a joint contribution to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. The text highlights how land concentration, speculation and policy gaps in Europe restrict access to land for small-scale and agroecological farmers, putting the right to food at risk. The organisations call for rights-based land governance aligned with UNDROP to protect rural communities and future generations.
A new Erasmus+ collaboration between the School of Shepherds of Catalonia and CFPPA Ariège-Comminges has produced EcoPastos, a 12-unit training module for sustainable mountain grazing. All teaching materials are available online in four languages, supporting the training of more than 120 future shepherds in the coming years.
France uses a dense set of local rules and institutions to shape who can buy, lease, and farm agricultural land. A new DEFIBIO project note outlines how tools like SAFER’s market oversight, the control of farm structures, and regional SDREA priority rules interact in practice. Together, they influence everyday access to land, from pre-empting sales to assessing farm takeover applications and regulating company share acquisitions under the Sempastous Law.
The Land Issue, Summer 2009 This article written by Simon Fairlie, a farmer and writer, and published in 2009 describes in-depth the historical process of enclosures and its current effects on agriculture and on rural areas. While, Hardin in its… Read More »A Short History of Enclosure in Britain
Over the past two years, several members of the Access to land network have explored innovative solutions to facilitate access to land for farmers as a way to contribute to generational renewal and sustainable rural development in Europe. In May… Read More »How to upscale innovative land practices in Europe?
A new report on novel land practices by Access to Land partners 2021 was a year of prospective action research on securing land for agroecology for six members and partners of the Access to Land Network involved in the RURALIZATION project. This… Read More »Innovation in Action
Rurbans from Catalonia recently published a practical handbook on this topic “How our organisations can assist with non-family farm transfers?” Non-family agricultural and livestock farm transfers occur outside the family sphere, when the farm is transferred to somebody outside of… Read More »How can our organisations can assist with non-family farm transfers?
New brochure for public engagement – available in various languages “Guardians of the Land – Portraits of citizens committed to land and agroecology“ is a 44p brochure, showcasing 16 individuals from across Europe who are contributing their knowledge, time and… Read More »Guardians of the Land – Portraits of citizens committed to land and agroecology
New publication! The Access to Land Network has launched a new guide for access to land initiatives. Written by members of the European Access to Land Network, as part of a European Erasmus + partnership focused on developing a Learning Platform for… Read More »A guide for setting up a land initiative and developing a land strategy