Land Day event, 24 January 2010, Rome:
Land, Investment and Development
Jointly hosted by the Platform and FAO/SDC/IFAD
Donor organisations, IGOs, CSOs and private sector representatives tabled diverse perspectives. Discussions uncovered ample room for convergence and a common sense of urgency to act
Platform Focal Point Lasse Krantz (Sida)
Land tenure and access to land are key to a number of rural development issues, not to mention basic economic and social human rights, such as the right to food.
Land Day will zero in on land and associated agro-industry related global challenges with a long-term rural development perspective.
It will provided an important opportunity to share knowledge on the diversity of initiatives related to land policies, land governance and investment and rural development, and provide ground to move toward identifying a tool kit for improved coordination among stakeholders.
Meeting objectives
Some 60 participants attended the meeting
- To share knowledge on the diversity of ongoing initiatives related to land policies and land tenure;
- To put some of the recent and new land-related global challenges and new topics in context and in a broader perspective, considering linkages in a perspective of long-term rural development;
- To prepare a possible improved collaboration and cooperation among stakeholders and establish a further process of knowledge exchange with a broader group of stakeholders.
The outputs of Land Day will be subsequently taken up at a session on Land and Development at the Platform Annual General Assembly, 26-27 January 2010.
Meeting minutes
