AGTER is a non-profit association of French law. It was established in March 2005 by a group of people from different backgrounds who had all participated or exchanged work among civil society organisations on issues of access to natural resources and land.
Mission:
AGTER aims at contributing to improve the governance of land, water and natural resources and at conceiving new ways of managing those resources, better adapted to face the challenges of the twenty-and-first century.
Objectives:
Contribute to new forms of governance of natural resources and land that could provide some responses to current global issues
Support the various organizations of civil society and social movements to have better knowledge and an analysis more relevant to their reality.
Facilitate trade and movement of ideas between actors and organizations, particularly those of civil society
Contribute to the genesis of a lifelong learning process that can help civil society organizations and especially farmer organizations and fishermen, to formulate policy proposals in the fields of natural resource management and land and to put them into practice.
Activities/Main areas of work:
AGTER organizes its work around a few main areas of work, basically related to:
− Natural resource management (including land, water and soils/plants and animals)
− Information sharing, including through regular meetings to allow network members to discuss themes related to governance of natural resources, water and land as well as web-based discussion on land tenure issues on developing countries, including most recent work on China. This area includes the development of a knowledgebase website (a virtual library on AGTER’s key topics of interests)
− Research on the above mentioned thematic areas with a focus on governance as related to natural resource management.
Coverage:
Europe, Americas, Africa, Oceania, Asia
Beneficiaries:
Networks of civil society, academics, members of peasant organizations and fishermen.
Membership/Affiliations:
– Réseau Informel Agriculture Paysanne et Mondialisation-Terre Citoyenne
