Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Agricultural Land Ownership as Food Sovereignty: The Case of Slovakia

  • Chapter
  • First Online:
Agricultural Law

Part of the book series: LITES - Legal Issues in Transdisciplinary Environmental Studies ((LITES,volume 1))

Abstract

Agricultural land plays an important role in national food sovereignty. Slovak lawmakers are trying to solve the problem with regard to access to food in the course of current legislative activities. So the concepts of food sovereignty as evaluation terms for land governance in Slovakia are preferred in spite of the fact that food security and right to food are more established. On the one hand, the concept of food security has not focused on access to food; rather, the central issue in international debates only concerns the amount of food that people are able to access. On the other hand, food sovereignty includes also the right of people to define their own food and agricultural systems. Moreover, food sovereignty is being incorporated into many official documents related to the human rights that are relevant despite their nonbinding nature. The current paper provides the analysis of the situation in agricultural land ownership after almost 11 years since Slovakia’s integration into the European Union and analyzes the current national legislation in order to point out the possible impact on the access to land and on food sovereignty of the country as well. The paper also points out the effectiveness of the legislative measures that should protect the land on the national level regarding the compatibility with the European Union law.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 149.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD 199.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book
USD 199.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

Notes

  1. 1.

    See, e.g., Lee (2007), p. 1; Windfuhr and Jonsén (2005), p. 31.

  2. 2.

    Windfuhr, Jonsén (2005), pp. 1–15.

  3. 3.

    Lee (2007), p. 5.

  4. 4.

    Agarwal (2014), pp. 1247–1268.

  5. 5.

    NGO (1996), p. 1: “Food sovereignty is the right of each nation to maintain and develop its own capacity to produce its basic foods respecting cultural and productive diversity. We have the right to produce our own food in our own territory. Food sovereignty is a precondition to genuine food security.”

  6. 6.

    NGO (2003): “Food sovereignty is the right of peoples to define their own food and agriculture; to protect and regulate domestic agricultural production and trade in order to achieve sustainable development objectives; to determine the extent to which they want to be self-reliant; to restrict the dumping of products in their markets, and; to provide local fisheries-based communities the priority in managing the use of and the rights to aquatic resources. Food sovereignty does not negate trade, but rather, it promotes the formulation of trade policies and practices that serve the rights of peoples to safe, healthy and ecologically sustainable production.”

  7. 7.

    Declaration of Nyéléni (2007): “Food sovereignty is the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems. It puts the aspirations and needs of those who produce, distribute and consume food at the heart of food systems and policies rather than the demands of markets and corporations. It defends the interests and inclusion of the next generation. It offers a strategy to resist and dismantle the current corporate trade and food regime, and directions for food, farming, pastoral and fisheries systems determined by local producers and users. Food sovereignty prioritises local and national economies and markets and empowers peasant and family farmer-driven agriculture, artisanal fishing, pastoralist-led grazing, and food production, distribution and consumption based on environmental, social and economic sustainability. Food sovereignty promotes transparent trade that guarantees just incomes to all peoples as well as the rights of consumers to control their food and nutrition. It ensures that the rights to use and manage lands, territories, waters, seeds, livestock and biodiversity are in the hands of those of us who produce food. Food sovereignty implies new social relations free of oppression and inequality between men and women, peoples, racial groups, social and economic classes and generations.” https://nyeleni.org/IMG/pdf/DeclNyeleni-en.pdf. Accessed 16 March 2017.

  8. 8.

    UN General Assembly, International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), 16 December 1966, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 993, p. 3, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6b36c0.html. Accessed 24 February 2016.

  9. 9.

    Declaration of Nyéléni (2007). https://nyeleni.org/IMG/pdf/DeclNyeleni-en.pdf. Accessed 16 March 2017.

  10. 10.

    See, e.g., Desmarais et al. (2010), p. 6; Windfuhr and Jonsén (2005), pp. 14–15.

  11. 11.

    FAO (2004, 2014a, b) and FAO CFS (2012).

  12. 12.

    Pinstrup Andersen (2009), pp. 5–7; Ejeta (2009), pp. 391–402; Windfuhr and Jonsén (2005), p. 19; Gysel (2016), p. 4.

  13. 13.

    FAO (1996): “Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life.”

  14. 14.

    Windfuhr and Jonsén (2005), p. 33.

  15. 15.

    Dunford (2014), pp. 239–261.

  16. 16.

    Schanbacher (2010), pp. 53–77.

  17. 17.

    Windfuhr and Jonsén (2005), pp. 23–24.

  18. 18.

    UN General Assembly, International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), 16 December 1966, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 993, p. 3, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6b36c0.html. Accessed 24 February 2016.

  19. 19.

    UN Human Rights Council, Final draft of the guiding principles on extreme poverty and human rights, submitted by the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, 18 July 2012, A/HRC/21/39: “Lack of food sovereignty compromises autonomy and dignity.” http://www.refworld.org/docid/5051d1d52.html. Accessed 12 Dec 2016.

  20. 20.

    UN General Assembly Resolution 51/171 Food and sustainable agricultural development A/RES/51/171 (16 December 1997): “Takes note with appreciation of the guiding principles on extreme poverty and human rights, adopted by the Human Rights Council in its resolution 21/11as a useful tool for States in the formulation and implementation of poverty reduction and eradication policies, as appropriate.” http://research.un.org/en/docs/ga/quick/regular/51. Accessed 19 Aug 2016.

  21. 21.

    Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food Olivier De Schutter (2014) Final report: The Transformative Potential of the Right to Food (A/HRC/25/57): “Food sovereignty is a condition for full realization of the right to food.” http://www.google.sk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0ahUKEwjGsvy5pvPQAhUDJMAKHZ7PALAQFggYMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ohchr.org%2FEN%2FHRBodies%2FHRC%2FRegularSessions%2FSession25%2FDocuments%2FA_HRC_25_57_ENG.DOC&usg=AFQjCNFRCbnFcpZ5vJLw4Rw1gsnLfyCmmw&bvm=bv.141536425,bs.2,d.d24. Accessed 5 Dec 2016.

  22. 22.

    UN (2015) Draft UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas presented by the Chair-Rapporteur of the working group: “Food sovereignty is the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through socially just and ecologically sensitive methods. It entails peoples’ right to participate in decision-making, and to define their own food and agriculture systems.” http://www.google.sk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&ved=0ahUKEwiqk9WLqPPQAhWIPxoKHXCnAxkQFggiMAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ohchr.org%2FDocuments%2FHRBodies%2FHRCouncil%2FWGPleasants%2FSession3%2FDraft_Declaration_presented_by_Chair_EN.doc&usg=AFQjCNG-UCA13Ai0nooPoik7rIu25-gtfQ&bvm=bv.141320020,d.d2s. Accessed 6 Dec 2016.

  23. 23.

    Foley (2005), pp. 570–574. For an insightful discussion of this topic, see the contribution of Brunori in this same volume.

  24. 24.

    FAO CFS (2012).

  25. 25.

    See, e.g., Turral et al. (2011); FAO (FAO 2014a, b, 2016).

  26. 26.

    Munro Faure and Palmer (2012), p. 9.

  27. 27.

    Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food Olivier De Schutter (2014) Large—Scale Land Acquisition and Leases: A set of core principles and measures to address the human rights challenge: “States would be acting in violation of the human right to food if, by leasing or selling land to investors (whether domestic or foreign), they were depriving the local populations from access to productive resources indispensable to their livelihoods. They would also be violating the right to food if they negotiated such agreements without ensuring that this will not result in food insecurity, for instance because this would create a dependency on foreign aid or on increasingly volatile and unpredictable international markets, as large proportions of the food produced thanks to the foreign investment would be shipped to the country of origin of the investor or sold on the international markets.” http://www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/food/docs/BriefingNotelandgrab.pdf. Accessed 31 Aug 2015.

  28. 28.

    FAO CFS (2012).

  29. 29.

    Seufert (2013), pp. 181–186.

  30. 30.

    Guffens and Seufert (2013), p. 223.

  31. 31.

    Jacobs (1999); Aabø and Kring (2012); Alarcón and Bodouroglou (2011), pp. 1–23; Chen (2007), pp. 1–15; Scherr and Yadav (1996); Tschamtke et al. (2012), pp. 53–59; Heri et al. (2011).

  32. 32.

    Guffens et al. (2013), p. 223.

  33. 33.

    Jacobs (1999), p. 16.

  34. 34.

    Douwe van der Ploeg et al. (2015), pp. 147–162.

  35. 35.

    Lerch (2015).

  36. 36.

    Rumanovská and Takáč (2015); Takáč (2014), pp. 20–22.

  37. 37.

    Kay et al. (2015), p. 11.

  38. 38.

    Douwe van der Ploeg et al. (2015), pp. 147–162; Carroccio et al. (2016), pp. 1–9.

  39. 39.

    Kay et al. (2015), p. 11.

  40. 40.

    European Economic and Social Committee (2015).

  41. 41.

    Kay et al. (2015), p. 12.

  42. 42.

    Bandlerová et al. (2012), pp. 32–37; Bandlerová and Valach (2011), pp. 14–18; Bandlerová et al. (2011), pp. 15–29; Takáč, Bandlerová (2010), pp. 4–18; Takáč (2010), pp. 260–266.

  43. 43.

    Takács-György et al. (2008), pp. 99–112.

  44. 44.

    Takáč (2007), pp. 199–206.

  45. 45.

    Buday et al. (2013), pp. 5–22.

  46. 46.

    Slovakia, Law 140/2014, “Collection on the Acquisition of Ownership of Agricultural Land and amending and supplementing certain laws.”

  47. 47.

    Registry of Offers of the Agricultural Land. https://pozemky.mpsr.sk. Accessed 1 June 2015.

  48. 48.

    Slovakia, Law 220/2004, “Collection on the Protection and Use of Agricultural Land and Amending Law 245/2003 Collection on the Integrated Prevention and Control of Environmental Pollution and amending and supplementing certain laws.”

  49. 49.

    Commission Decision of 14 April 2011 extending the transitional period concerning the acquisition of agricultural land in Slovakia, OJ [2011] L 101.

  50. 50.

    Slovakia, Explanatory Statement to the Law 140/2014 Collection on the Acquisition of Ownership of Agricultural Land and amending and supplementing certain laws, General Part.

  51. 51.

    Art. 4–6, of Law 140/2014.

  52. 52.

    Art. 2–4 (1), of Law 140/2014.

  53. 53.

    Artt. 588–611, of Law 40/1964 Civil Code.

  54. 54.

    Art. 5 (1), of Law 140/2014.

  55. 55.

    Art. 4 (3), of Law 140/2014.

  56. 56.

    Art. 5 (3), of Law 140/2014.

  57. 57.

    Art. 4 (1) and (4), of Law 140/2014.

  58. 58.

    Art. 4 (4), of Law 140/2014.

  59. 59.

    Art. 4 (6), of Law 140/2014.

  60. 60.

    Art. 6 (3), of Law 140/2014.

  61. 61.

    Art. 6 (4), of Law 140/2014.

  62. 62.

    Art. 4, of Law 140/2014.

  63. 63.

    Slovakia, Law 122/2015, “Collection on the Changes and Amendments of Law 140/2014 Collection on the Acquisition of Ownership of Agricultural Land and amending and supplementing certain laws.”

  64. 64.

    Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic, Statistical Yearbook. www.statistics.sk/. Accessed 24 June 2015.

  65. 65.

    Bandlerová et al. (2013), pp. 55–60; Bezáková et al. (1996), pp. 59–62.

  66. 66.

    Bandlerová et al. (2005), pp. 145–152; Rumanovská (2014), pp. 315–321.

  67. 67.

    Ciaian et al. (2012), pp. 2–3.

  68. 68.

    Lazíková, Takáč (2010), p. 10; “land of unknown owner” refers to land where the ownership is not documented and the owner is not known.

  69. 69.

    Buday et al. (2013), pp. 5–22.

  70. 70.

    Bielik et al. (2013), p. 75.

  71. 71.

    Art. 3–8, of Law 220/2004.

  72. 72.

    Art. 9–11, of Law 220/2004.

  73. 73.

    Art. 12–18, of Law 220/2004.

  74. 74.

    Art. 17 (5), of Law 220/2004.

  75. 75.

    Slovakia, Government Regulation 58/2013, “Collection on the Fees for Agricultural Land Excluding Illegal Occupation of Agricultural Land.”

  76. 76.

    Art. 2, of Government Regulation 58/2013.

  77. 77.

    Art. 4, of Government Regulation 58/2013.

  78. 78.

    Explanatory Statement to the Government Regulation 376/2008 Collection on Fees for Agricultural Land Excluding Illegal Occupation of Agricultural Land. http://www.justice.gov.sk. Accessed 25 June 2014.

  79. 79.

    Slovakia, Government Regulation 376/2008, “Collection on the Fees for Agricultural Land Excluding Illegal Occupation of Agricultural Land.”

  80. 80.

    Slovakia, Government Regulation 58/2013, “Collection on the Fees for Agricultural Land Excluding Illegal Occupation of Agricultural Land.”

  81. 81.

    Slovakia, Explanatory Statement to the Government Regulations 58/2013 Collection on Fees for Agricultural Land Excluding Illegal Occupation of Agricultural Land.

References

  • Aabø E, Kring T (2012) The political economy of large-scale agricultural land acquisitions: implications for food security and livelihoods/employment creation in rural Mozambique. Working Paper 2012-004. United Nations Development Programme, Regional Bureau for Africa. http://www.undp.org/content/dam/rba/docs/Working%20Papers/Agriculture%20Rural%20Mozambique.pdf. Accessed 31 July 2015

  • Agarwal B (2014) Food sovereignty, food security and democratic choice: critical contradictions, difficult conciliations. J Peasant Stud 41(6):1247–1268

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Alarcón D, Bodouroglou CH (2011) Agricultural innovation for food security and environmental sustainability in the context of the recent economic crisis: why a gender perspective? Background Paper, World Economic and Social Survey. http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/policy/wess/wess_bg_papers/bp_wess2011_alarcon.pdf. Accessed 15 Aug 2015

  • Bandlerová A, Valach V (2011) Foreign ownership of agricultural land in Slovakia. In: Quality of entrepreneurship environment. Slovak University of Agriculture, Nitra, pp 14–18

    Google Scholar 

  • Bandlerová A, Rumanovská Ľ, Lazíková J (2005) Agriculture land tenure – the case of Slovakia. In: Mocean L, Buchmann R (eds) The impact of European integration on the national economy. The proceedings of the international conference, Cluj-Napoca, 28–29 October 2005. Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj Napoca, pp 145–152

    Google Scholar 

  • Bandlerová A, Marišová E, Schwarcz P (2011) Ownership and use relationships to agricultural land in Slovakia after the EU accession. In: Entrepreneurship in rural areas (EU Business law I). Slovak University of Agriculture, Nitra, pp 15–29

    Google Scholar 

  • Bandlerová A, Schwarczová L, Schwarcz P (2012) Acquisition of agricultural land by foreigners – the case of Slovakia. EU Agrarian Law 1(2):32–37

    Google Scholar 

  • Bandlerová A et al (2013) Agrárne právo EÚ. [EU Agrarian Law]. Slovak University of Agriculture, Nitra

    Google Scholar 

  • Bezáková L et al (1996) Pozemkové právo. [Land Law]. Slovak University of Agriculture, Nitra

    Google Scholar 

  • Bielik P et al (2013) Sustainable development and agribusiness. Wieś Jutra, Warszawa

    Google Scholar 

  • Buday Š, Chrastinová Z, Grausová G (2013) Predaj poľnohospodárskej pôdy cudzincom na Slovensku a v krajinách EÚ [Sale of the agricultural land to foreigners in Slovakia and the EU countries]. Ekonomika poľnohospodárstva 13(3):5–22

    Google Scholar 

  • Carroccio A et al (2016) The land grabbing in the international scenario: the role of the EU in land grabbing. Agric Food Econ 4(1):12

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Chen J (2007) Rapid urbanization in China: a real challenge to soil protection and food security. Catena 69(1):1–15

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ciaian P et al (2012) Rental market regulations for agricultural land in EU Member States and candidate countries. Working Paper no. 15. Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels. http://aei.pitt.edu/58518/1/Factor_Markets_15.pdf. Accessed 8 Aug 2015

  • Desmarais A, Wittman H, Wiebe N (2010) Food sovereignty: reconnecting food, nature and community. Pambazuka Press, Oxford

    Google Scholar 

  • Douwe van der Ploeg J, Franco JC, Borras SM Jr (2015) Land concentration and land grabbing in Europe: a preliminary analysis. Can J Dev Stud 36(2):147–162

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Dunford R (2014) Human rights and collective emancipation: the politics of food sovereignty. Rev Int Stud 41(2):239–261

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ejeta G (2009) Revitalizing agricultural research for global food security. Food Secur 1(4):391–402

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • European Economic and Social Committee (2015) Opinion on land grabbing – a warning for Europe and a threat to family farming. NAT/632

    Google Scholar 

  • FAO (1996) World food summit. Rome Declaration on World Food Security. http://www.fao.org/docrep/003/w3613e/w3613e00.HTM. Accessed 3 Sept 2016

  • FAO (2004) Voluntary guidelines to support the progressive realization of the right to adequate food in the context of National Food Security. http://www.fao.org/righttofood/publications/publications-detail/en/c/44965/. Accessed 3 Sept 2016

  • FAO (2014a) Innovation in family farming. The State of Food and Agriculture. http://www.fao.org/3/a-i4040e.pdf. Accessed 18 Sept 2016

  • FAO (2014b) Principles for responsible investment in agriculture and food systems. http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/templates/cfs/Docs1314/rai/CFS_Principles_Oct_2014_EN.pdf. Accessed 3 Sept 2016

  • FAO (2016) Climate change and food security: risks and responses. http://www.fao.org/3/a-i5188e.pdf. Accessed 18 Sept 2016

  • FAO CFS (2012) The voluntary guidelines on the responsible governance of tenure of land, fisheries and forests in the context of National Food Security. http://www.fao.org/docrep/016/i2801e/i2801e.pdf. Accessed 18 Sept 2015

  • Foley JA (2005) Global consequences of land use. Science 309(5734):570–574

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Guffens C, Seufert P (2013) The myth of good land and natural resource governance in Europe: what the case studies reveal and how the CFS Tenure Guidelines on land, fisheries and forests provide guidance to revise European land policies. https://www.tni.org/files/download/15._tenure_guidelines.pdf. Accessed 15 Sept 2016

  • Guffens C et al (2013) Land concentration, land grabbing and people’s struggles in Europe. Transnational Institute for European Coordination Via Campesina and Hands off the Land network, Amsterdam. https://www.tni.org/files/download/land_in_europe-jun2013.pdf. Accessed 3 May 2015

  • Gysel A (2016) Food sovereignty and the role of the state: the case of Bolivia. https://www.ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/special-interest/gess/nadel-dam/documents/mas/mas-essays/MAS%20Cycle%202014%20-%202016/Essay_Andrea%20Gysel_FINAL.pdf. Accessed 30 Nov 2016

  • Heri S et al (2011) International instruments influencing the rights of people facing investments in agricultural land. International Land Coalition, Rome

    Google Scholar 

  • Jacobs H M (1999) The international dimension of farmland protection: lessons for developing countries from developed countries. Paper presented in the 41st Annual Meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Chicago, 21–24 October 1999

    Google Scholar 

  • Kay S, Peuch J, Franco J (2015) Extent of farmland grabbing in the EU. European Parliament, Brussels. http://www.europarl.europa.eu/studies. Accessed 30 Sept 2016

  • Lazíková J, Takáč I (2010) Právne a ekonomické aspekty nájmu poľnohospodárskej pôdy. [Legal and Economic Aspects of Agricultural Land Lease]. Slovak University of Agriculture, Nitra

    Google Scholar 

  • Lee R (2007) Food security and food sovereignty. Discussion Paper Series No 11. Centre for Rural Economy, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne. www.ncl.ac.uk/cre/publish/discussionpapers/pdfs/dp11%20Lee.pdf. Accessed 25 June 2015

  • Lerch M (2015) Food security is a multi-layered concept, covering availability, access, use and stability. https://europa.eu/eyd2015/en/eu-european-parliament/posts/food-security-multilayered-concept-covering-availability-access-use. Accessed 25 June 2015

  • Munro Faure P, Palmer D (2012) An overview of the voluntary guidelines on the governance of tenure. Land Tenure J 3(1):5–17

    Google Scholar 

  • NGO (1996) La Via Campesina, “Food sovereignty: a future without hunger,” Statement by the NGO Forum to the World Food Summit. http://www.acordinternational.org/silo/files/decfoodsov1996.pdf. Accessed 16 March 2017

  • NGO (2003) La Via Campesina, “Peoples’ food sovereignty - WTO out of agriculture”. https://viacampesina.org/en/index.php/main-issues-mainmenu-27/food-sovereignty-and-trade-mainmenu-38/396-peoples-food-sovereignty-wto-out-of-agriculture. Accessed 16 March 2017

  • Pinstrup Andersen P (2009) Food security: definition and measurement. Food Secur 1(1):5–7

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Rumanovská Ľ (2014) Evaluation of the impact of agricultural land lease relations in agricultural subjects in Slovakia. Scientific Papers Series “Management, economic engineering in agriculture and rural development” 14(1):315–321

    Google Scholar 

  • Rumanovská Ľ, Takáč I (2015) Realizácia spoločnej poľnohospodárskej politiky v rokoch 2014-2020. Paper presented at the international scientific conference on the fast-growing trees and plants growing for energy purposes, Slovak University of Agriculture, Nitra, 10 Sept 2015

    Google Scholar 

  • Schanbacher WD (2010) The politics of food: the global conflict between food security and food sovereignty. Praeger Security International, Santa Barbara

    Google Scholar 

  • Scherr SJ, Yadav S (1996) Land degradation in the developing world: implications for food, agriculture and the environment to 2020. International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington. https://www.ifpri.org/publication/land-degradation-developing-world-0. Accessed 25 June 2015

  • Seufert P (2013) The FAO voluntary guidelines on the responsible governance of tenure of land, fisheries and forests. Globalizations 10(1):181–186

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Takáč I (2007) Constant and variable value of agricultural land in selected regions in Slovakia. In: Podnikanie na poľnohospodárskej pôde vo väzbe na rozvoj vidieka. Slovak University of Agriculture, Nitra

    Google Scholar 

  • Takáč I (2010) The legislation adjustment of agricultural land rent and purchase by foreigners in Slovakia and selected EU countries. In: Rural development and structural changes companies in agrokomplex. Slovak University of Agriculture, Nitra, pp 260–266

    Google Scholar 

  • Takáč I (2014) Trhu s pôdou na Slovensku by pomohla väčšia súťaž o jej prenájom [The more intensive competition of land rent will be helpful to the agricultural land development]. AGROmagazín 16(11):20–22

    Google Scholar 

  • Takáč I, Bandlerová A (2010) Land market development in selected countries of the European union. In: Sovremennye problemy razvitija nacionaľnoj ekonomiki: sbornik statej k meždunarodnoj naučno-praktičeskoj konferencii, Stavropoľ

    Google Scholar 

  • Takács-György K, Bandlerová A, Sadowski A (2008) Užívanie pôdy a pôdna reforma v bývalých krajinách strednej a východnej Európy [Land use and land reform in the states of Middle and Eastern Europe]. In Selected issues of EU agrarian law IV - structural changes in agriculture. Slovak University of Agriculture, Nitra

    Google Scholar 

  • Tschamtke T et al (2012) Global food security, biodiversity conversation and the future of agricultural intensification. Biol Convers 151(1):53–59

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Turral H, Burke J, Faurès JM (2011) Climate change, water and food security. FAO, Rome. http://www.fao.org/docrep/014/i2096e/i2096e.pdf. Accessed 20 Sept 2016

  • Windfuhr M, Jonsén J (2005) Food sovereignty. Towards democracy in localized food systems. ITDG Publishing, Warwickshire

    Book  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Law, Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra, Nitra, Slovakia

    Katarína Dirgasová

  2. Department of International Law and European Law, Pan-European University, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Jarmila Lazíková

Authors
  1. Katarína Dirgasová
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Jarmila Lazíková
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Katarína Dirgasová .

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. DIRPOLIS - Institute of Law, Politics and Development, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy

    Mariagrazia Alabrese

  2. DIRPOLIS - Institute of Law, Politics and Development, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy

    Margherita Brunori

  3. DIRPOLIS - Institute of Law, Politics and Development, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy

    Silvia Rolandi

  4. DIRPOLIS - Institute of Law, Politics and Development, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy

    Andrea Saba

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2017 Springer International Publishing AG

About this chapter

Cite this chapter

Dirgasová, K., Lazíková, J. (2017). Agricultural Land Ownership as Food Sovereignty: The Case of Slovakia. In: Alabrese, M., Brunori, M., Rolandi, S., Saba, A. (eds) Agricultural Law. LITES - Legal Issues in Transdisciplinary Environmental Studies, vol 1. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64756-2_17

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64756-2_17

  • Published:

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Cham

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-319-64755-5

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-319-64756-2

  • eBook Packages: Law and CriminologyLaw and Criminology (R0)

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation