Stankovics, Petra2021-09-012021-09-01http://hdl.handle.net/2437/321521Land management practices in present day agriculture are getting more and more important where food grain production and fertilizer use run parallel to meet the food requirements of over increasing population, one of the key issues related to land tenure is the degree to which the tenure arrangement encourages sustainable land management. The goal of sustainable agriculture is to meet society’s food and textile needs in the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs (European Union, 1998). A possible way to reach sustainability is support organic farming practicies in national land tenure systems. Organic agriculture is the practice of growing, raising, or processing goods using methods that avoid the use of most synthetic pesticides and fertilizers (Sheoran et al, 2018). This research tried to investigate the effect of land tenure policy with special focus on organic farming in the Hungarian context. Land tenure is the relationship, whether legally or customarily defined, among people, as individuals or groups, with respect to land. The legal concept of sustainable land tenure can be interpreted as a special branch of law dealing with state institutions, which are for the most appropriate development of land management system. The subdivisions of this legal system are (i) land use, (ii) land ownership (iii) land protection and (iv) land administration (Tanka, 2008). In this paper we examine the legislaton of land use and ownership, and how organic farming is or could be interpreted in these subdivisions.5enland management practicesland tenure policysustainabilityorganic agriculturekonferencia kiadványtudományterületek::környezettudományok