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Newsletter AGTER July 2019. Working in the heart of the territories
The association AGTER runs an international network of people, exchanging and thinking together how to improve the governance of land, water and natural resources.The network selects and makes information available but it also formulates suggestions and alternatives to face the current great challenges. This quaterly newsletter is presenting the latest information available on our website : www.agter.asso.fr.
15 July 2019
by Michel Merlet
Director of AGTER
We are at an important milestone for AGTER, with the launch over the forthcoming days of a project that will build Territorial charters for the preservation and sharing of agricultural land in the French region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
It is an opportunity to focus back on the distinctiveness of AGTER’s approach, based on long-term sharing between the members of the organization, who are present in different continents, belong to diverse cultures and own various skills. Most of them were or still are directly involved in field projects or several struggles, even though these works are often not carried out under the appellation AGTER. Our website of documentary resources (www.agter.org) gathers part of their work and experiences in the form of educational materials, studies, videos in multiple idioms (mainly French, Spanish and English). Thereby, it is neither a portal that would list all types of achieved work on a topic, nor a website that would only publish the work of an organization.
Nowadays, it is not the lack of information that creates difficulties but definitely the impossibility of using an increasing number of publications, books, studies, research activities and films to build responses to the twenty-one century issues. 830 articles and thousands of pages of the attached documents, which are freely available through the resource website of the association, are trivial compared to what you find on Internet. Their relevance come from elsewhere, from their articulation and their built inter-relations continuously updated from the collective members’ pondering. On this basis, the experiments once carried out or tried out today, both accomplishments and failures and not only “good practices”, can be shared, analyzed and valued, preventing us from relentlessly starting from scratch.
The unifying theme of the documents collected in this bulletin is Territorial Development. We resume here several works that Paolo Groppo, member of AGTER for many years, had coordinated when he was working with FAO. They remain very interesting from our point of view. Groppo invites us not to forget the importance of power relations between actors and to build processes that ensure a necessary long-term evolution for the benefit of all. Many other documents from our documentary resource base already tackle this topic. You will find most of them, files, scientific articles, popularized documents, videos and so on around the matter of Local Land Management. Among all these documents, we draw your attention to an interview with Gérard Leras, today vice chairman of AGTER, who accurately describes his experience as an elected member of the Rhône-Alpes Regional Assembly from 2010 to 2015, in charge of setting up a land policy. All of these experiences constitute our association network’s richness.
Working on development and governance issues in both Northern and Southern countries is not frequent for an NGO. It makes it easier to raise awareness about the distortions, which can always emerge back related to colonial legacy or to the dichotomous vision of the “developed countries” versus the “underdeveloped countries”. It is an essential dimension of our association, as evidenced by our new project, the first to be driven directly by AGTER in France.
You will find below the job offer published by AGTER these last few days in regard to the Territorial charters in New Aquitaine.
You will also find documents following the submitted work over our last newsletter about the necessity to Reform the agricultural land policy in France, and an important book about Agrarian Systems and Climate Change in the South, whose one of the coordinators is Hubert Cochet, first AGTER President and current Professor of AgroParisTech (the holder of the chair initially built by René Dumont, then led by Marcel Mazoyer (member of honour of AGTER) and later by Marc Dufumier). Among the new publications, we offer you various other articles about Women and land in Senegal, the fights against mining extractivism in Madagascar, the colonial roots of land issues in New Caledonia.
We would like to draw your attention to the very interesting video of Hadrien Di Roberto about the access for young people to the land in Madagascar, a topic we will resume soon when the results of the Land and Development technical Committee’s brainstorming, co-animated by AGTER in 2018, will be available.
Translation to English: Bernard-Gilbert, Caroline
article(s) French Spanish English - video French
Bulletin d’information d’AGTER # 45
AGTER recrute le.la coordinateur.trice du projet Chartes territoriales en faveur de la préservation et du partage du foncier en Nouvelle Aquitaine
PROJET DE CHARTES TERRITORIALES EN NOUVELLE AQUITAINE
La Région Nouvelle Aquitaine a adopté une stratégie foncière qui vise à : maintenir les surfaces agricoles, naturelles et forestières ; dans une phase transitoire, l’objectif poursuivi est une réduction a minima de 50 % du rythme de la consommation foncière ; garantir leurs fonctions écologiques (...)
Ce document de la FAO constitue un développement des précédents travaux sur le développement territorial participatif et négocié (DTPN) et l’amélioration de l’égalité de genre dans les questions territoriales (IGETI). L’approche écologique du développement territorial négocié (GreeNTD) met en évidence la pertinence accrue de la recherche d’un équilibre entre les sphères sociale, économique et écologique dans notre vie quotidienne. Le document complet est disponible uniquement en anglais.
Ce document propose des réponses concrètes aux défis suivants: améliorer la confiance entre les acteurs sociaux, renforcer la cohésion sociale et promouvoir un développement territorial systémique. Paolo Groppo a coordonné les travaux de la FAO sur ce thème pendant des années. Il est membre d´AGTER.
La sentence prononcée par le Tribunal d’Instance de Fianarantsoa satisfait les organisations signataires du communiqué, qui expriment leur reconnaissance aux 9 patriotes pour leur courage et leur détermination à défendre le capital naturel de leur région et les droits des communautés sur leurs terres ancestrales.
Version française d’un article publié sur le site ARC2020 qui analyse les mécanismes de la concentration des terres en France depuis la fin du XIX siècle et l’accélération du phénomène au cours des dernières décennies, pour conclure sur la nécessité de mettre en place une politique cohérente de régulation des marchés fonciers au niveau européen.
Premiers résultats de l’évaluation dans les Niayes, la Vallée du Fleuve Sénégal et le Bassin arachidier qui révèlent qu’il existe des stratégies ayant permis l’amélioration des droits fonciers des femmes à la terre tout en montrant les effets pervers de l’intervention de projets et programmes de développement et l’impossibilité de sécuriser les droits fonciers des femmes sans tenir compte de ceux des autres membres de la communauté ciblée.
Un livre en accès libre écrit par des chercheurs d’AgroParisTech et publié par les Ed. QUAE qui part de l’étude d’une douzaine de situations locales contrastées en Afrique sub-saharienne et en Asie du Sud-Est et qui explique pourquoi les différents groupes d’agriculteurs ont une inégale capacité d’adaptation. Plusieurs membres d’AGTER ont dirigé ou participé à ces travaux.
Analyse des racines historiques de la question foncière en Nouvelle Calédonie, par un anthropologue de l’EHESS et du CNRS.
Newsletter # 45 ES
El enfoque presentado en este documento de la FAO constituye un desarrollo adicional de los anteriores, el Desarrollo Territorial Participativo y Negociado (DTPN) y Mejorar la Igualdad de Género en Cuestiones Territoriales (IGETI). Enverdecer el enfoque del desarrollo territorial negociado (GreeNTD) destaca la relevancia creciente que tiene la búsqueda de un equilibrio entre la esfera social, económica y ecológica en nuestra vida diaria.
En este documento, se proponen respuestas concretas a los siguientes desafíos: mejorar la confianza entre actores sociales, fortalecer la cohesión social y promover un desarrollo territorial sistémico. Paolo Groppo coordinó los trabajos de la FAO sobre este tema durante muchos años. Es miembro de AGTER.
Newsletter # 44 ES
The approach presented in this FAO document does constitute a further development of the previous ones, the Participatory and Negotiated Territorial Development (PNTD) and the Improving Gender Equality in Territorial Issues (IGETI). Greening the Negotiated Territorial Development approach (GreeNTD) highlights the increased relevance that the search for an equilibrium between the social, economic and ecological sphere has in our daily life.
This document proposes concrete responses to the following challenges: improving trust between social actors, strengthening social cohesion and promoting systemic territorial development. Paolo Groppo has been coordinating FAO work on this issue during many years. He is a member of AGTER.
An article published on the ARC2020 website which analyzes the mechanisms of land concentration in France since the end of the 19th century and the acceleration of the phenomenon over the last decades, to conclude on the need to establish a coherent policy regulating land markets at European level.
Newsletter # 44 EN
Une vidéo remarquable de 23 minutes pour s’immerger dans la réalité que vivent les jeunes hommes et les jeunes femmes des hautes terres malgaches. Héritages, ventes de détresse, ventes intra-familiales soumises à des régulations spécifiques, … tout est beaucoup plus complexe que ce que l’on s’imagine le plus souvent.
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