Workshop on land methods

With a view on sharing strategies, and because local communities have little or none of the strategic land knowledge required to effectively implement development policies, the EPF created the Workshop on land methods in June 2004.

Designed as a place for resource-sharing and mobilising land information, the Workshop on land methods has four objectives:

• helping the region's communities to design land strategies for their territory projects,
• helping them to carry out resulting land actions,
• taking part in the monitoring and evaluation of these actions and land methods,
• and fuelling the definition of the EPF's intervention.

The workshop relies on a collaborative strategy and gathers experts from the DREAL, DRAAF, CETE, Conseil régional and Conseils généraux, Regional chambers of agriculture, town planning offices and other territory engineering structures, as well as academics and consultants. The results of these studies are shared with the territories.

Works are organised in three themes:

• land assessment of the territory (land use change),
• operation of the land and building markets (building plot markets and rural markets),
• public policies of the communities and their land aspects

These studies lead to the issuing of "land announcements" designed for intermunicipal structures and adjusted to their scale (available in Publications).