Documents exploring the concept and practical applications of managing land as a shared resource.
May, 2017 With business self-regulation and corporate social responsibility schemes proving to be insufficient for addressing land grabbing-related human rights issues, a new publication points to the obligation of the EU and its Member States to implement a set of… Read More »Land Grabbing and Human Rights: The Role of the EU Abroad
February 2017 In this paper, Eco Ruralis discusses how the common grazing lands are very crucial to the Romanian agriculture. Romania plays a pivotal role in European agriculture however there has been a significant decrease in the number of small… Read More »Small Farms, Commons and Land Grabbing in Romania
Marta Di Pierro and Marzia De Sanctis, AIAB Lazio, Italy In the fall of 2013, the grassroots movement Caicocci Social Land Committee was born to raise the issue of the future of Caicocci – a neglected public estate in the centre of… Read More »Caicocci , the story of a social custody
July 2016 Friends of the Earth Europe just released a report about the EU’s land footprint, equivalent to the size of France and Italy. Friends of the Earth Europe “campaigns for sustainable and just societies and for the protection of… Read More »EU’s Land Footprint: The True Cost of Consumption
April 2016 This reports was produced by the Sciences Communication Unit of the University of Bristol for the European Commission DG Environment. It stresses out the challenges to reach the comission target of ’no net land take by 2050’ into the… Read More »No net land take by 2050?
2015 In 2015, a Spanish environmental NGO called RCTCMM launched a market of products coming from land stewardship (LS) agreements certified with participatory guarantee systems (PGSs), claiming it to be a sustainable alternative to the products certified as EU organic.… Read More »An assessment of a legal transition based on land stewardship and participatory guarantee systems
2012 The International Biodynamic Association (IBDA) commissioned this study, against the background of a growing crisis facing the land markets. The authors (Titus Bahner et al) have originally come up with this report for Germany but due to the high relevance,… Read More »Releasing the true value of land