How to feed the world without degrading land and water resources, eroding biodiversity and contributing to climate change is among the greatest challenges of our times. FAO works with the Global Environment Facility (GEF) to support member countries in addressing the critical nexus between…
We analyze the impact of land fragmentation on production diversification in rural Albania. Albania represents a particularly interesting case for studying land fragmentation as the fragmentation is a direct outcome of land reforms. The results indicate that land fragmentation is an important…
This guide is about making the recording or registration of tenure rights more relevant to people who hold those tenure rights, and particularly to people who are currently poorly served by systems to record or register tenure rights. It provides practical advice on ways to improve the recording…
Rapport de la session conjointe du Comité des forêts et de l'industrie forestière et de la Commission européenne des forêtsVarsovie, Pologne9-13 octobre 2017
Recognizing the importance of the services provided by forests and trees to urban dwellers, the Collaborative Partnership on Forests proposed that the theme for the 2018 International Day of Forests would be “Forests and Sustainable Cities”. To mark this occasion and promote the widespread…
The aim of this paper is to research the process of compulsory acquisition of land and its fixtures in the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline project in Albania from the perspective of the affected persons. The legislation of Albania as well as international principles concerning compulsory acquisition of…
This Regulation 739 of 2017 amends and supplements Regulation 725 of 2015 regarding the organization and functioning of the Territory Development Agency. The changes include: appointment and termination of the General Director of the Agency by the Prime Minister; replacement of the integrated…
This Regulation sets forth unified rules for the structure, content, and steps involved in planning, implementation, and monitoring of territory development interventions in order to detail the planning procedures at central and local levels and produce similar planning documentation in form and…
Law No. 28/2017 amends and supplements Law No. 107/2014 on territory planning in regard to the territory development requirements, the monitoring of development works, the application for construction permit, and the cases of works suspension after the permit issuance.
Amends: Law No. 107/…
The main purposes of this research are to identify and analyse the role of women and men in the forestry sector in Kosovo, and women’s and men’s ownership and use of forests. The report also aims to analyse the gender issues within the institutional policy and legal framework that governs forest…
The paper aims to present changes and current dynamics of mountainous pastoral systems in Southern Albania (Korca region) and to identify origin-based quality products as a strategy for sustainable rural development. According to the historical data (available or reconstructed through interviews…
Meeting Name: Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (CGRFA)
Meeting symbol/code: CGRFA-16/17/16
Session: Sess.16