AKIPRESS.COM - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture, organized a workshop to present the findings and recommendations from an assessment report and policy recommendations related to land administration, land market development, and land reform in Uzbekistan, UzA reported.

The workshop was held as part of the implementation of the FAO project "Enhancing agricultural land market development to address land abandonment and improve land consolidation procedures" funded by the FAO-Türkiye Partnership Programme on Food and Agriculture (FTPP II).

The event brought together national and international experts who discussed the report findings and recommendations related to the security of land rights, land allocation to farmers land market development, and land reform.

The FAO regional project 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.

The project aims to support institutional capacity development on land tenure security, land allocation to farmers, and other land market development measures and instruments to ensure a more sustainable use of agricultural land.

Speaking about the results of the project, FAO Land Tenure Officer Morten Hartvigsen highlighted the importance of ensuring that farmers have secure tenure rights as this is a precondition for investments in farms as well as for sustainable use of the agricultural land. He also emphasized the importance of ensuring that smallholders, young farmers, and women farmers have access to agricultural land.