CIS Regional Assessment for the FAO Voluntary Guidelines on Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land and other Natural Resources

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and its partners will hold consultations on various issues relating to the voluntary guidelines on responsible governance of tenure of land and other natural resources. The voluntary guidelines aim to provide practical guidance for State governance bodies, civil society and the private sector. The voluntary guidelines will provide a basis, which interested parties can use when developing their strategies and activities.



With regard to regional consultations for countries of the CIS, the most recent round of consultation was organized jointly with the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation, the K. A. Timiryazev Agriculture Institute of the Russian State University, the German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ) and FAO. Participants included 66 representatives of 10 countries, who shared the knowledge and experience of the State, private sector, civil society and academia. Specialists from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan took part in the meeting.