Strengthening local organizations responsible for land management

Local organization involvement in natural resource management, whether it be in developing or developed countries, is instigated by population pressures contending for ever-diminishing natural resources. Local organization involvement strategies, as implemented by national agencies around the world, are rational attempts to provide the balance between protection and use needs, while serving to broaden environmental responsibilities throughout society.

This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities. Agenda 21 recommends creating or strengthening rural organizations in charge of village and pastoral land management.

1. Strengthening local management
2. Strengthening community-based land resource protection
3. Developing organizations
4. Building capacity for land management

1. Providing public land management agencies with modern computer and survey equipment

1. Providing functional skills in vulnerable areas
2. Managing agricultural lands
3. Land use planning
4. Incorporating sustainable indigenous management systems for land resources
5. Improving land and water management by farmers in arid regions
6. Improving accessibility of land resources
7. Facilitating public participation in sustainable land management
8. Delegating sustainable development to appropriate level

1. Training in land resource management
2. Improving education on land management
3. Expanding partnerships for managing land resources
4. Delegating land resource management responsibilities to rural organizations
5. Creating community land trust

1. Nonlocal
2. Mismanagement
3. Land