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Municipal agricultural land use planning is a powerful instrument to territorialize policies, plans and programs for agricultural development and order the use of agricultural land, within the framework of municipal land-use plans, so as to guarantee agricultural development that is territorially pertinent, comprehensive, efficient, differentiated, strategic and harmonious with other sectoral actions.

The document has been organized into two sections: the first reports the results of the studies carried out as a framework of reference, which allows metropolitan actors to have a global vision of the experience of metropolitan areas in terms of planning and consideration of rurality and territorial planning in it. This first section addresses three key issues from this experience. In the second, the lines of the rural and agricultural territorial planning strategy are given in terms of its components, vision, objectives, criteria and strategic actions.

The land management policy for agricultural uses (Gestua), understood as a “set of strategies, instruments and planned actions, both sectoral and territorial and intersectoral management, aimed at achieving efficient agricultural uses both in the continental and maritime-coastal territory” (Massiris, 2015), arises as a need that, from a regulatory and institutional perspective, was specified in 2011, regarding the creation of the Rural Land Planning, Land Adaptation and Agricultural Uses Unit (UPRA according to its acronym in Spanish).

This report gathers a general context of the perspective of finance management of rural lands within territorial planning, conceptual bases of rural land management and financing mechanisms and guidelines for incorporating rural land management and financing in POTs and other instruments of territorial planning.

The conceptual framework of rural land management and financing mechanisms (MGFSR in Spanish) is based on direct relationships between mechanisms used for the construction of management strategies of planning instruments of rural land use planning (POT, PBOT, EOT and UPR) and planning instruments for territorial development, in their formulation, execution, evaluation and follow-up phases; and in territorial management of rural productive planning, with the design and execution of public policies for rural development.