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The forum provides an opportunity to exchange perspectives and explore approaches for responsible land use and sustainable rural development.

ICARRD+20 also brings together representatives of Indigenous Peoples, smallholder farmers, Afro-descendant communities, rural women, and youth, alongside governments and international organizations.

In Cartagena, the focus is on experiences, challenges, and opportunities in agrarian reform, land access, and tenure security. The role of international instruments and processes in land governance is also discussed.

These include

• the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests (VGGT, 2012)

as well as the three Rio Conventions

• the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC, 1992),
• the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD, 1992), and
• the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD, 1994),

which provide the foundation for many of today’s standards.

As a multilateral UN organization based in Rome, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) brings expertise on land and water governance to ICARRD+20, supports technical exchanges among countries and international partners, and promotes discussion of good practices in agrarian reform and sustainable rural development.

Germany actively follows the discussions, participates in technical debates, shares experiences from projects on sustainable land use, and supports the implementation of the VGGT as an internationally recognized reference framework.

Background

ICARRD (International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development) was first held in 2006. ICARRD+20 builds on these earlier discussions and addresses current developments in agrarian reform and land governance.

The Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests (VGGT) were adopted in 2012 by the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) and serve as an internationally recognized reference framework for responsible land governance.