13th International LANDNET Workshop

The 13th LANDNET workshop will take place in a hybrid format (physically and virtually) from 25 to 27 May in Skopje, North Macedonia. The workshop is organized in partnership with the University Ss. Cyril Methodius, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Economy, and the Delegation of the European Union.

Since 2002, FAO REU has organized 20 annual regional workshops on land tenure topics including land consolidation, land banking, state land management, land abandonment, and land market development. Since 2010 the technical network is known as LANDNET.

The objectives of this year’s LANDNET workshop are:

• Revitalize the regional technical network,
• Provide an overview of good practices on land banking in Europe,
• Present and discuss lessons learned from the introduction of land consolidation in North Macedonia,
• Discuss policy options to address land abandonment.

Presentations

Presentations on this page are shared only if those are received from the participants with their kind permission of publishing those.

FAO Study on European Good practices on Land Banking
Tomas Versinskas, International Legal Specialist, Financial Law Institute

Education of future land consolidation professionals in Lithuania
Giedrius Pašakarnis, , Ph.D, Lecturer at Vytautas Magnus University

Overview of land banking instruments in ECA
Maxim Gorgan, Land Tenure Officer, FAO REU

Land banking in Denmark
Erik Blaabjerg, Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, Denmark

Capacity development needs
Maxim Gorgan, Land Tenure Officer, FAO REU

Land consolidation curricula
Gjorgji Gjorgjiev, Associate professor, Faculty of Civil Engineering

Overview of land policy and priorities in North Macedonia
Kiril Georgievski, Head of Land Consolidation Department, MAFWE

MAINLAND Project
Kristina Mitic Arsova, Team Leader, FAO

Overview of FAO support to land consolidation
Morten Hartvigsen, Land Tenure Officer, FAO REU

Land Abandonment in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Andrew Cartwright, Research Fellow, CEU

Land Abandonment in Armenia
Arman Khojoyan, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Economy of Armenia 

Land reform in Uzbekistan
Ibrokhim Shukurbekov, Junior Researcher, State Scientific and Design Institute "Uzdavyerloyikha" under the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Uzbekistan

Land Consolidation in Ethiopia
Nenad Gvozdenovic, Eyerusalem Feleke Dibawo, Belachew Hailemariam Maru, GIZ, Ministry of Agriculture of Ethiopia

Instruments to address land abandonment in Lithuania
Giedrė Leimontaitė-Mačiulienė, Head of Land Management Division, Land Management and Administration Department, National Land Service of Lithuania

Land Banking in Slovenia
Anka Lisec, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering, Department of Geodetic Engineering