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Session Overview

Session

10-08: Using New Data & Platforms for Land Policy Research

Time:

Thursday, 23/Mar/2017:

10:30am - 12:00pm

Session Chair: Innocent Matshe, African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), Kenya

Location: MC C2-131

Presentations

ID: 1066 / 10-08: 1
Individual Papers
Oral Presentation
Topics: Academic research on land governance / rigorous impact evaluations
Keywords: industrial policy; FDI; concessions; geo-referenced data; nighttime light

Government Policy and Natural Resource Sector FDI: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Liberia

Bradley Parks¹, Jonas Bunte², Daniel Runfola¹, Harsh Desai³, Kanio Gbala⁴

¹The College of William and Mary; ²UT-Dallas; ³London School of Economics and Political Science; ⁴TrustAfrica

10-08-Parks-1066_paper.pdf

10-08-Parks-1066_ppt.pdf

ID: 982 / 10-08: 2
Individual Papers
Oral Presentation
Topics: Harnessing geospatial data, cloud platforms and other data technologies

Monitoring of Agricultural Land Conversion with Copernicus Sentinel Sensors: Case Study of Gambella State (Ethiopia)

Guido Lemoine, Felix Rembold

European Commission, DG Joint Research Centre, Italy

10-08-Lemoine-982_paper.pdf

10-08-Lemoine-982_ppt.pptx

ID: 296 / 10-08: 3
Individual Papers
Oral Presentation
Topics: Securing land rights for equity, sustainability and resilience
Keywords: forest cover mapping, tropical dry and humid forests, Sentinel satellites

Satellite based monitoring of forest resources compliant with REDD+ and Zero Deforestation

Thomas Haeusler, Fabian Enßle, Sharon Gomez

GAF AG, Germany

10-08-Haeusler-296_paper.pdf

10-08-Haeusler-296_ppt.pptx

ID: 897 / 10-08: 4
Individual Papers
Oral Presentation
Topics: Academic research on land governance / rigorous impact evaluations
Keywords: property rights, experiment, investment, geospatial data

How Land Tenure Systems Affect Foreign Investment: Evidence from Liberia

Alexandra Hartman¹, Darin Christensen³, Cyrus Samii²

¹UCL, United Kingdom; ²NYU, United States of America; ³UCLA, United States of America

10-08-Hartman-897_paper.pdf

10-08-Hartman-897_ppt.pdf

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