The FARLAND Network deals with integrated land development and is built on a group of organisations, brought together in the EU Interreg IIIC project FARLAND which ran from 2005 till 2008. Nine out of 11 partner organisations concluded that maintaining a more structural network is beneficial for each of the members. It involves organisations from the Netherlands, Flanders/Belgium, Galicia/Spain, Portugal and Lithuania.  The FARLAND Network is intending to have a modest growth and is interested to extend its network in a geographically well-balanced way. New partners should come from countries with an active land development approach. Since 2007 the FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia and FARLAND are connected, creating excellent conditions for exchange of knowledge and upgrading of approaches. Joint activities – among others – concentrate on supporting the LANDNET.

The FARLAND group puts the objectives at the first place. It wants to promote exchange of knowledge and experiences, to stimulate application of new approaches and it wants to influence policies on national and European level. FARLAND does not want to become a network for the sake of being a network. Its main qualities are reflected by the key words ‘action’, ‘commitment’ and ‘project discipline’.

Three main principles (more integration, more decentralization and more flexibility) direct the activities that are focused on different types of areas (agricultural areas, environmentally sensitive areas and metropolitan landscapes).