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Enhancing land consolidation in North Macedonia

Year of publication 2023

Place of publication Skopje, North Macedonia ;

Pages 6p.

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Brochure, flyer, fact-sheet

Synopsis (short abstract) This is a general project leaflet containing key factual information and short background about the objectives and outputs of the project ‘’Enhancing Land Consolidation in North Macedonia’’ - a follow-up initiative of the successful "Mainstreaming of the National Land Consolidation Programme" (MAINLAND) project. Building directly on the results of the MAINLAND project, this project assists the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Economy to further enhance land consolidation in North Macedonia by improving the national policy, institutional and regulatory framework on land consolidation (including the development of a new National Strategy for Land Consolidation for the period 2022-2030 with an Action Plan) and the full-fledged implementation of land consolidation projects in two project areas - Dabjani (Municipality of Dolneni) and Chiflik (Municipality of Chesinovo-Obleshevo), combined with construction of agricultural infrastructure. The Project budget is EUR 1.2 million, financed from the European Union Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance (IPA II) 2019 (EUR 1 million) and a FAO contribution (EUR 0.2 million). The project will be implemented over a period of 42 months, starting from August 2022 until January 2026.

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