2024-08-25 16:27:37
Get real-time updates directly to your device, subscribe now.
On Tuesday, August 20, 2024, a series of three consultation workshops for the second phase for the development of the agricultural land policy ended. These workshops are part of component 3 of the Agricultural Statistics and Land Support project (ASAF/C3), funded by the French Development Agency (AFD). The objective is to bring each group of stakeholders to formulate the proposals for amendments that they consider relevant to improve draft 1 of the agricultural land policy (PFA).
Launched on August 13, 2024, in a hotel reception in the Kindia prefecture with different participants composed of the decentralized technical services of the ministries members of the steering committee of the agricultural land reform, local elected officials and local leaders, these consultation workshops allowed the participants to examine the content of draft 1 of the agricultural land policy obtained after a first series of eleven consultation workshops organized between 2023 and May 2024. As soon as these intense activities were launched, Aboubacar Demba Touré, national expert, lawyer on rural land within the Agricultural and Land Statistics Support project gave details in these terms.
“We are in Kindia as part of the consultation activities of the second phase for the development of the agricultural land policy. We had already completed the first phase of consultations which led us to produce draft 1 of the agricultural land policy which we are submitting to the same stakeholders to receive some of the observations and their amendment on the content of the document. This is only the beginning of the series of workshops of the second phase today in Kindia with the decentralized technical services, namely 9 ministries whose activities have a link or incident on land. And the main result that we expect is after they have properly taken ownership of the content of the document, it is to receive their observations on the substance and form but also proposals for amendments on the content of the document”, he explained on the day of the launch of the activities of this workshop.
Specifically addressing the objectives and expected results through these workshops, consultant Aboubacar Demba Touré states that “it is to bring each actor to formulate the amendment proposals that they consider relevant to improve draft 1 of the PFA. Present to each group of actors draft 1 of the PFA, allow each group of actors to formulate their amendment proposals on the essential sections of the PFA, in particular the vision, the objectives and principles of actors, the strategic orientations, the areas of intervention and the measures. The expected results are none other than at the end of each of the three workshops that each group of actors has a good knowledge and a good understanding of draft 1 of the PFA. That each group of actors formulates the amendment proposals that they consider useful to improve draft 1 of the PFA.
During these discussions, each group of stakeholders formulated proposals for amendments to the essential sections of the agricultural land policy, in particular the vision, objectives and guiding principles without ignoring the strategic orientations, areas of intervention and measures.
Asked about these motivations and especially why the agricultural land policy was established, Sékou 2 Kaba, judge at the Court of First Instance of Kankan, replied: “It was following the various consultation workshops that the agricultural land policy was established and we are in Kindia here to issue our observations and validate this agricultural land policy. So mainly, we are here for that. The stakes are very high for Guinea to the extent that there was a general consensus that property rights concerning agricultural land were not adapted to the state land code. So the need is to adapt the state land code to the agricultural land policy. The land policy in the Republic of Guinea is an unsuitable policy that we must react to and in order to react to this, this is why we must establish an agricultural policy in Guinea and transform this policy into a binding legal instrument,” he explains.
Please remember that others will also be organized in the same framework.
Aboubacar Dramé, regional correspondent in Kindia
+224 623 08 09 10