Policy Document

Understanding french local instruments for the regulation of agricultural land

04.12.202505.12.2025

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.

🇧🇬 Access to Land in Bulgaria – Liberalisation, Concentration, and the Future of Farmland

14.10.202521.10.2025

The Access to Land Country Report on Bulgaria explores how three decades of rapid liberalisation have reshaped the country’s agricultural landscape.

🇵🇱 New Country Report: Access to Land in Poland – Between State Control and Market Pressures

14.10.202521.10.2025

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.

Ensuring a Future for Farming: A2LN’s Call for Structural Change in Support of Generational Renewal

11.07.202521.10.2025

In the context of the European Commission’s Strategic Dialogue on the Future of EU Agriculture, and its ongoing consultation on a new agricultural policy strategy to promote generational renewal, the European Access to Land Network has submitted the following contribution.… Read More »Ensuring a Future for Farming: A2LN’s Call for Structural Change in Support of Generational Renewal

New Policy Brief on Protecting the Right to Land in Ukraine

26.06.202522.09.2025

National and European Perspectives Ukraine plays a critical role in Europe’s agricultural landscape – not only geopolitically, but also in terms of soil resources. The country holds 8.7% of the world’s black soil reserves – some of the most fertile… Read More »New Policy Brief on Protecting the Right to Land in Ukraine

New Policy Brief on the EU Land Observatory

24.02.202506.10.2025

Joint effort with ECVC A European Farmland Observatory: A Necessary Step for Land Justice Access to land is at the heart of Europe’s agricultural future. The increasing concentration of farmland, rising land prices, and the expansion of corporate farming are… Read More »New Policy Brief on the EU Land Observatory

People’s Manual on the Guidelines on the Governance of Land

04.07.201605.11.2025

June 2016 In 2012, the United Nations Committee on World Food Security officially endorsed the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security. Since their adoption, various international organisations… Read More »People’s Manual on the Guidelines on the Governance of Land

Final declaration of the International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development

27.01.201605.11.2025

2006 The International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (ICARRD) in Porto Alegre 7-10 March 2006 was organized jointly by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nation and the Government of Brazil to explore new development opportunities to… Read More »Final declaration of the International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development

Land grabbing – a wake-up call for Europe and an imminent threat to family farming

07.10.201505.11.2025

2015 In 2014, the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), decided to draw up an own-initiative opinion on land grabbing in the EU. After consulting a range of public, private and civil society actors, and conducting a fact-finding mission in Romania,… Read More »Land grabbing – a wake-up call for Europe and an imminent threat to family farming

Land policies and agrarian reforms

01.10.201505.11.2025

2007 The Proposal paper on land policies and agrarian reforms is based on discussions conducted by aGter with researchers, development workers and representatives of farmers’ organisations. This paper was designed to help small farmers’ organisations and people working on this… Read More »Land policies and agrarian reforms