Conference Agenda

Pastoral Women's Land Rights and Land Use Planning in Tanzania: Experiences of the Sustainable Rangeland Management Project

Naseku Kisambu¹, Fiona Flintan², Elizabeth Daley³, Sabine Pallas⁴

¹Tanzania Women's Lawyers Association; ²International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI); ³Mokoro; ⁴International Land Coalition

Securing Communal Land Tenure through Certificates of Customary Rights of Occupancy in Tanzania

Edward Loure

UCRT (Ujamaa Community Resource Team), Tanzania

Rangeland Leasing Practices and Need to Secure the Land Tenure Rights to Herders

Altantsetseg Bazarragchaa

Mongolian Association of Land Management NGO, Mongolia

Building Pastoralists’ Resilience: Strengthening Participation in Markets and Local Governance Institutions in West Pokot, Kenya

Deborah Muricho¹, David Otieno², Willis Oluoch-Kosura³

¹University of Nairobi, Kenya; ²University of Nairobi, Kenya; ³University of Nairobi, Kenya

Pastoralism and land tenure security: Lessons from IFAD-supported projects

Harold Liversage, Steven Raoul Filip Jonckheere, Antonio Rota

IFAD, Italy

Land Use Change in the Bale Mountains Eco-Region of Ethiopia: Drivers, Impacts and Future Scenarios

Worku Chibssa¹, Fiona Flintan²

¹SIT/World Learning Inc; ²International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

Securing Shared Grazing Land and Water Resources in Semi-Arid Pastoral Areas: Application of Social Tenure Domain Model Experience in Rural Kenya

Michael Kibiego¹, Solomon Mkumbwa², Harold Liversage³, John Gitau², Sammy Mabikke², Danilo Antonio², Oumar Sylla², Cyprian Selebalo²

¹Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Kenya; ²UN-HABITAT; ³International Fund for Agriculture Development

Making Rangelands more Secure in Cameroon: Lessons Learned and Recommendations for Policy Makers, Development Actors and Pastoralists

Blasius Nche Azuhnwi¹, Manu Jaji Gidado^1,2, Musa Usman Ndamba², Michael Fon Nsoh³, Fiona Flintan⁴

¹Ministry of Livestock, Fisheries and Animal Industries Yaounde, CAMEROON, Cameroon; ²Mbororo Social and Cultural Development Association (MBOSCUDA) CAMEROON; ³Community Initiative for Sustainable Development (COMINSUD), Bamenda, Cameroon; ⁴International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

Land Use Planning and Communal Land Tenure Reforms in Pastoral Areas: The Experiences of Kenya

Charles Otieno Konyango

National Land Commission Kenya

Institutional Innovation and the Protection of Livestock Corridors in Agropastoral Drylands

Erin Kitchell^1,3,4, Matthew Turner¹, John McPeak²

¹University of Wisconsin, Madison, United States of America; ²Syracuse University; ³Institut Senegalais de Recherches Agricole; ⁴Pole Pastoralisme et Zones Seches

Transformation Of Land Tenure In Semi-Arid Areas And Implications For Climate Resilient Economic Development

Elizabeth Carabine¹, Claire Bedelian², Stephen Moiko³

¹Overseas Development Institute, United Kingdom; ²University College London, United Kingdom; ³Independent consultant, Kenya

Public Lands Ranching in the U.S. - Social and Economic Characteristics of Public Lands Ranchers

Kristie Maczko¹, John Tanaka², Bree Lind³

¹Sustainable Rnglands Roundtable University of Wyoming, United States of America; ²Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Wyoming, USA; ³Department of Ecosystem Science and Mgmt, University of Wyoming, USA

Dispossession through Formalization: The Plight of Pastoralists in Tanzania

Kelly Askew¹, Faustin Maganga², Rie Odgaard³

¹University of Michigan, United States of America; ²University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; ³Danish Institute of International Studies (retired)

Contextualizing International Voluntary Guidelines into Country Specific Land Investment Governance: Experience from Tanzania

Wilbard Mkama Makene

Tanzania Natural Resource Forum, Tanzania

Experiences of Agribusiness Investments in Lao PDR

Justine Sylvester¹, Phouvong Phaophongsavath²

¹Village Focus International; ²Ministry of Planning and Investment

Private Sector Responsibilities in Agriculture under the VGGT

Darryl Vhugen

Land Tenure Investment Consultant, United States of America

How Behind the Brands companies are implementing their land rights commitments in Brazil

Chloe Christman, Gustavo Ferroni

Oxfam

Pilot Use of Responsible Agricultural Investment Principles: A Status Update

William Speller¹, Hafiz Mirza¹, Asuka Okumura², Paul Gardner Yvelin De Beville², Duncan Pringle²

¹UNCTAD, Switzerland; ²World Bank, USA

Further standardisation in Land Administration

Christiaan Lemmen¹, Peter Van Oosterom², Mohsen Kalantari³, Eva-Maria Unger¹, Chee Hai Teo⁴, Kees De Zeeuw¹

¹Kadaster, Netherlands, The; ²Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, The; ³The University of Melbourne, Australia; ⁴UN Statistics Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs

Land Transfer Standards – Bringing Fit For Purpose Concepts To The Land Transaction Process

James Kavanagh

RICS, United Kingdom

Practical Application Of IAAO Standards For Land Administration And Property Tax Systems

Margaret Cusack

International Association of Assessing Officers, United States of America

Standards and interoperability in the Nigerian Land Sector

Adewale Adegoke

GEMS3, Nigeria

Development and Employment of a LADM Implementing Toolkit in Colombia

Lorenz Jenni¹, Andrés Guarín López², Stefan Ziegler³, Víctor Manuel Bajo¹

¹BSF Swissphoto AG, Switzerland; ²Cadastre Subdirectorate, Instituto Geográfico Agustín Codazzi, Colombia; ³Office for Geoinformation, Canton of Solothurn, Switzerland

Improving Land Administration in Brazil: re-engineering Cadastre using LADM

Thiago Marra, Kilder Barbosa, Eduardo Oliveira, Oscar Oliveira

INCRA/Sead, Brazil

Models Of Interaction Between Land Registries, Cadasters, and Land Tenure Systems

Miguel Mandamiento, Maria Luisa Alvarado

Habitat for Humanity International LAC Region, Peru

Land Registration Data Standards, Interoperability and Data Access in Kenya

Peter Ng'ang'a Mburu¹, Lizahmy Makena Ntonjira², Jane Njeri Mburu³

¹Ministry of Lands - Kenya, Kenya (MoL); ²Technical University of Kenya (TUK); ³The University of Nairobi (UoN)

Innovative Rural Cadastre Development in Ethiopia

Eskedar Zelalem Mengistu¹, Bernd Eversmann¹, Tarek Zein², Christian Timm², Tigistu Gebremeskel Abza³, Yohannes Redda Gebre³

¹NIRAS, Responsible and Innovative Land Administration(REILA)Project, Ethiopia; ²Hansa Luftbild, Germany; ³Ministry of Agriculture Natural Source (MoANR),Rural Land Administration and Use Directorate (RLAUD), Ethiopia

Land governance in the context of the New Urban Agenda: Experiences from Harare (Zimbabwe) and Johannesburg (South Africa)

Farai Mutondoro¹, Manase Manase², Nicky Rehbock³

¹Transparency International Zimbabwe; ²Chinhoyi University; ³Corruption Watch South Africa

Towards An Urban Land Resource Curse? A Fresh Perspective On A Long-Standing Issue

Dieter Zinnbauer

Transparency International - Secretariat, Germany

A Critical Assessment of Urban Land Leasehold System in Ethiopia

Alebel Weldesilassie¹, Berihu Gebrehiwot²

¹Ethiopian Development Research Institute, Ethiopia; ²Ethiopian Development Research Institute, Ethiopia

Holding Land in Common within Cities, Commoning for Land Rights– What Can We Learn from Collective Tenure in Urban Context?

Claire Simonneau^1,2, Irène Salenson²

¹Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium; ²French Development Agency

The New Safeguard Standards for Indigenous People: Where do we start?

Oliver MacLaren, Julie-Anne Pariseau

Olthuis Kleer Townshend LLP, Canada

Contribution of Open Data to Protect Indigenous People’s Livelihood, Land Security and Natural Resources Sustainability

Ratana Pen¹, Mane Yun², Try Thy³

¹Heinrich Boell Foundation Cambodia; ²Cambodia Indigenous Peoples Organization; ³Open Development Cambodia

Using open data and digital mapping to aggregate evidence for identifying and protecting indigenous people’s lands and resources in Cambodia

Thy Try, Hindley David

Open Development Cambodia (ODC), Cambodia

Itenure- New Tool For Land Claim Registration And Legal Advice On Land Tenure Status

Piotr Sasin¹, Javier Sola², Benjamin Flower³

¹People in Need, Cambodia; ²Open Institute, Cambodia; ³University Collage London

Land tenure and its impacts on food security in Uganda: Empirical Evidence from Ten Districts

Samuel Mabikke¹, Moses Musinguzi², Danilo Antonio¹, Oumar Sylla¹

¹United Nations Human Settlement Programme, Kenya; ²Makerere Unievrsity, Kampala - Uganda

Land Access And Use Under Changing Tenancy Regulations: Governance Challenges In Odisha (India)

Sibabrata Choudhury

Landesa, India

Reducing Conflicts and Enhancing Land Administration: Case of the Customary Boundary Demarcation in Ghana

Gad Asorwoe Akwensivie

Ghana Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources, Ghana

Reforms for Equity and Efficiency: Exploring Challenges of Malawi's 2016 Customary Land Act in Achieving Equity Goal

Sane Zuka

University of Malawi, The Polytechnic, Malawi

Scope for Decentralization of Land Administration in Africa: Evidence from Local Administrative Data in Mozambique

Raul Pitoro

Michigan State University, United States of America

The Challenges of Using Spatial and Demographic Data for Development in Nigeria

Olivia Kolbe-Booysen

Adam Smith International, Nigeria

A Programme for Improving Land Governance Transparency in Ethiopia

Christopher Tanner¹, Tigistu Gebremeskel Abza²

¹MOKORO Ltd., United Kingdom; ²Rural Land Administration and Use Directorate, Ministry of Agriculture, Ethiopia

The Ambiguous State-Traditional Relationship in Land Governance in Uganda and Malawi: Repercussions on Poverty Reduction?

Daniela Behr

University of Konstanz, Germany

Developing a Land Administration Index

Mohsen Kalantari

The University of Melbourne, Australia

Developing a Global Land Tenure Security Index for Spatial Analyses

Allison Kelly¹, Yuta Masuda², Margaret Holland³, Brian Robinson⁴

¹Evans School of Public Policy and Governance, University of Washington; ²The Nature Conservancy; ³University of Maryland, Baltimore County; ⁴McGill University

What is the relationship between tenure security, good governance and poverty alleviation: What do we know and what can we learn from this evidence

Grenville Barnes, Jazmin Gonzales Tovar, Sarah McKune

University of Florida, United States of America

Towards a More Open Future: Increasing Accountability and Transparency through Open Land Data

Frank Pichel¹, Lindsay Ferris¹, Neil Sorensen²

¹Cadasta Foundation, United States of America; ²Land Portal Foundation, The Netherlands

Expanding Land Tenure in Women Business and the Law

Nayda Almodóvar-Reteguis

The World Bank, United States of America

Could the debate be over? Errors in farmer-reported production and their implications for inverse scale-productivity relationship in Uganda

Sydney Gourlay¹, David Lobell², Talip Kilic¹

¹World Bank; ²Stanford University

Individual-level Approach to Data Collection on Land Ownership and Rights

Talip Kilic, Heather Moylan

World Bank

Beyond ownership: Tracking progress on women’s land rights in Sub-Saharan Africa

Vanya Slavchevska¹, Ana Paula De la O Campos¹, Chiara Brunelli¹, Cheryl Doss²

¹The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Italy; ²University of Oxford, CGIAR Program on Policies, Institutions and Markets

Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue In Land Governance: Lessons Learned And Ways Forward

Lucy Oates, Gemma Betsema

LANDac (Netherlands Academy for Land Governance), Netherlands, The

Introducing a Guide to the Valuation of Unregistered Land

Michael McDermott¹, Matt Myers², Cyprian Selabalo³, Danilo Antonio³, Chryssy Potsiou⁴, Steven Nystrom⁴

¹Global Property Advisory, Australia; ²South Pacific Property Advisors, Fiji; ³UN-HABITAT/GLTN; ⁴FIG

Contributing to SDGs and VGGTs through people-centred land monitoring – the Dashboard

Ward Anseeuw

CIRAD / International Land Coalition, Italy