November 2019 A new study reviewing access to land and Greek law written by Panagiotis Longidinis, a lawyer working with grassroots urban and food movements in Greece, and commissioned by Agroecopolis Hellas (AEP), has recently been published. The study aims… Read More »Access to Land and Greek law: a rich legislation, yet to be implemented
February 2017 This paper by Regionalwert AG explains how we can measure the value of small scale farming by the indicators that they have defined, using the principles of Schuhmacher (1973). Economics usually talks about if an activity is profitable or not… Read More »RWAG Indicators as a Tool to Change the Accountancy System and Reveal the True Benefit of Human-scale Farms
March 2017 The Soil Association has been training new organic farmers in the UK for nearly a decade with their Future Grower scheme. This paper explains how the market gardens have become important in the access to land debate. Market gardens… Read More »Access to land and small market gardens in the UK
February 2017 This paper written by AIAB Lazio, Italy elucidates how in current socio economic environment, direct marketing or short chains prove to be a great alternative to the highly mechanised and extensively technical food market. With the ever increasing impact of… Read More »Small farms and short chains
2016 This diploma thesis written by Adela Stanislavova explores the issue of access to land in Czech Republic by comparing with other europeans countries such as France, Germany and Romania. The thesis was supervised by Vratislava Janovska from the Czech… Read More »Access to Land for agroecological way of farming
2016 Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) as defined by the European CSA Research Group in 2015 “is a direct partnership between a group of consumers and producer(s) whereby the risks, responsibilities and rewards of farming activities are shared through long-term agreements.… Read More »Overview of CSA in Europe
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
2015 In 2015, at the request of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (COMAGRI) of the European Parliament, The Transnational Institute (TNI) created a report on the extent of farm land grabbing in the European Union. The study looks… Read More »Extent of Farmland Grabbing in the EU
2014 FIAN Belgium (FoodFirst Information and Action Network) recently published a study (in French) to describe and analyse the difficulties of access to land currently facing farmers in Belgium. To conduct this study, the Human Rights organisation devoted to the defense… Read More »For better access to land in Belgium and in Europe
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