Enhancing agricultural land market development to address land abandonment and improve land consolidation procedures

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Enhancing agricultural land market development to address land abandonment and improve land consolidation procedures

GCP/SEC/022/TUR

Year of publication 2022

Place of publication Ankara, Türkiye ;

Pages 6p.

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Brochure, flyer, fact-sheet

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Synopsis (short abstract) The project titled "Enhancing agricultural land market development to address land abandonment and improve land consolidation procedures" aims to support the introduction of a land banking instrument in connection with an ongoing land consolidation programme in Türkiye and a planned programme in Azerbaijan, and assess the need for land market development and the feasibility of land management instruments in Uzbekistan.

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Brochure, flyer, fact-sheet
Torpaqların tərk olunması probleminin həlli və torpaqların konsolidasiyası prosedurlarının təkmilləşdirilməsi məqsədilə kənd təsərrüfatı torpaqları bazarının inkişaf etdirilməsi
GCP/SEC/022/TUR
2022

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Torpaqların tərk olunması probleminin həlli və torpaqların konsolidasiyası prosedurlarının təkmilləşdirilməsi məqsədilə kənd təsərrüfatı torpaqları bazarının inkişaf etdirilməsi’ layihəsi Türkiyədə davam edən torpaq konsolidasiyası proqramı və Azərbaycanda planlaşdırılan proqramla əlaqədar torpaq bankı alətinin tətbiqinə dəstək vermək və torpaq bazarının inkişafı ehtiyacını və Özbəkistanda torpaq idarəçiliyi alətlərinin mümkünlüyünü qiymətləndirmək məqsədi daşıyır.
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Supporting Development of Agriculture Land Markets to Bring Abandoned Land into Production (TCP/MCD/3802)
Analysis of land abandonment and development of agricultural land markets in the Republic of North Macedonia – Conclusions and policy recommendations
2023

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This report has been prepared as part of the FAO technical assistance project Supporting Development of Agriculture Land Markets to bring Abandoned Land into Production (TCP/MCD/3802). It presents the analysis on land abandonment in the context of farm structures and land market development and provides comprehensive policy recommendations to improve the situation. The mentioned project and the land abandonment analysis provided in this report is complementary and interlinked with to the ongoing land consolidation activities in the country supported by the European Union-funded and FAO-implemented Mainstreaming the National Land Consolidation Programme – MAINLAND project (GCP/MCD/002/EC) implemented during 2017–2022 and the ongoing project Enhancing Land Consolidation in North Macedonia (GCP/MCD/008/EC) to be implemented during 2022-2026. The work on land abandonment and land market development also builds on the earlier FAO project on the privatization state-owned agricultural land (TCP/MCD/3701/C1) implemented during 2018–2020.
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Supporting Development of Agriculture Land Markets to Bring Abandoned Land into Production - TCP/MCD/3802 2024

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Farm structure in North Macedonia features numerous small family farms with an average farm size of between 1.8 and 1.9 hectares and a few larger corporate farms. Around 40 percent of the total arable agricultural land is state-owned. Excessive fragmentation is evident, with on average five to seven land parcels per farm. Although the average farm size decreased after independence in 1991, recent trends show a rebound. Factors such as excessive land fragmentation and small farm sizes are resulting in low productivity, competitiveness and profitability of farms. Rural outmigration contributes to widespread abandonment of arable agricultural land, with, on average, 32 percent of the arable land in North Macedonia being unutilized. The Government of North Macedonia recognized the potential of bringing back into production both private and state-owned unutilized agricultural land to boost local food production, improve family farm competitiveness and productivity, and stimulate agricultural land markets amid the COVID-19 crisis and multiple crises in the region.