Translation of "réforme foncière " (French → English) :

The HRVP Federica Mogherini attended the signing ceremony of four EU projects: disbursement of a first tranche of a sector reform contract for local sustainable development (€5 million), the promotion of secure land tenure rights and equitable access to land in national protected areas (€3.2 million), comprehensive action against mines (€1.8 million) and community Radios for Peace and Peaceful Coexistence (€2 million).

116. Calls on the EU to encourage the governments of developing countries to commit to land reform in order to secure the land titles of indigenous people, nomadic populations and small and medium-scale farmers, especially women, and to prevent land-grabbing practices by corporations; urges the EU to assert the right of access to natural resources, in particular for native and indigenous peoples, in the negotiation of trade agreements; encourages all Member States to follow the example of Denmark, the Netherlands and Spain and ratify ILO Convention 169 on Indigenous and Tribal peoples, in order to show their determination to provide th ...[+++]em with tangible protection; supports current and ongoing campaigns for the ratification and implementation of ILO Convention 169 by non-signatory states, as a means of demonstrating, among other things, the EU's commitment to multilateralism and the United Nations;

110. Calls on the EU to encourage the governments of developing countries to commit to land reform in order to secure the land titles of indigenous people, nomadic populations and small and medium-scale farmers, especially women, and to prevent land-grabbing practices by corporations; urges the EU to assert the right of access to natural resources, in particular for native and indigenous peoples, in the negotiation of trade agreements; encourages all Member States to follow the example of Denmark, the Netherlands and Spain and ratify ILO Convention 169 on Indigenous and Tribal peoples, in order to show their determination to provide th ...[+++]em with tangible protection; supports current and ongoing campaigns for the ratification and implementation of ILO Convention 169 by non-signatory states, as a means of demonstrating, among other things, the EU’s commitment to multilateralism and the United Nations;

Areas for intervention may include agriculture, including land reform and land policy, sustainable management of and access to natural resources, food security in relation to rural and local development, including infrastructure, nutrition, demography and labour, migration, health and education.

The completion of land reform with the creation of a functioning land market lingers in many CEEC-10.

However, much work remained as regards land reform, restructuring the agri-food industry, rural development, forestry and market organisation.