Land Consolidation: A Key for Sustainable Development French Experience

[摘要] The rural land management in France principal aim is to improve the land practice organization of land properties both agricultural and forest ones. Since July 2001, the rural code explains that land management procedure includes the local land policy of the communes or districts. Particularly, environment, listed monuments and sites become ones of the most important aims in land management. These topics are already used in actual practice since the beginning of the nineties. Officialize them means that the classical way of land management typical rural is changing in a most general way. The French way of land management the most used is ”remembrement” (regrouping of lands). We can call it land consolidation. In this paper, we will talk about this procedure based on land parcels organization and property management. There are seven procedure sorts in land management in France, but the classical one is ”remembrement”. In land consolidation procedure, land exchanges are based on agronomic value and not on financial one. The aim of this land management is to obtain a better organization of land properties and land farming concern. There is an important participation of the owners during several public inquiries during all the procedure. In France, a land consolidation means that the areas and boundaries are updated and certified by the procedure. French State, with the agricultural ministry, is the organism payments office of the procedure. The technician in charge of the operation is a private surveyor (member of the ”Ordre des GomtresExperts”, Private Expert Surveyors Organization) certified by the agricultural ministry. He makes the plan in a technical and juridical way