Conference Agenda

Using spatial data to assess the impact of land registration in Benin

David Daniel Koffi Tossou¹, Klaus Deininger², Ran Goldblatt³, Daniel Ayalew Ali²

1: Bureau Etudes ATLAS GIS, Benin; 2: World Bank, United States of America; 3: UC San Diego, United States of America

Using High-resolution Imagery to Improve Land Records in Indian States: Opportunities and Challenges

Shankar Nelamangala

DigitalGlobe, India

Does inclusion of large farms lead to a revision of the farm size-productivity relationship: Evidence from Ethiopia

Sinafikeh Gemessa¹, Daniel Ayalew Ali², Klaus Deininger²

1: ‎University of Minnesota, United States of America; 2: World Bank, United States of America

Quantifying Extent and Impact of Large Scale Land Transfers: Evidence from Malawi’s Estate Sector

Fang Xia¹, Klaus Deininger²

1: University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, China, People's Republic of; 2: The World Bank, USA

Assessing Urban Land Use in Ho Chi Minh City

Ran Goldblatt¹, Kiwako Sakamoto², Klaus Deininger²

1: UC San Diego, United States of America; 2: The World Bank, United States of America

Using Drones for Mapping Zanzibar

Edward Anderson

World Bank group, Tanzania

Using Drones for Tenure Regularization and Urban Upgrading

Mamadou Baro¹, Birhane Wane²

1: University of Arizona, United States of America; 2: Ministry of Housing, Urban Development, and Land-Use Management, Mauritania

The Sensors are Here! A High-Resolution Application on Understanding Individual Travel Patterns in African Cities

Nancy Lozano Gracia

World Bank, United States of America

Combining Taxi GPS Data and Open-Source Software for Evidence-Based Traffic Management and Planning

Holly Krambeck

The World Bank, United States of America

Using Remotely Sensed Land Use Data to Improve Public Sector Governance: The Example of Road Investments

Kai Kaiser

The World Bank, United States of America

Process and Content of Ukraine's Land Governance Monitoring and Its Relevance for Land Policy Reform

Maksym Martynyuk¹, Denys Nizalov², Denis Bashlyk³

1: Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food, Ukraine; 2: University of Kent, United Kingdom; 3: Stategeocadastre, Ukraine

Moving towards real-time land governance monitoring in a decentralized setting: Rwanda's experience

Nishimwe Marie Grace¹, Thierry Ngoga², Solomon Kyewalabye³

1: Rwanda Natural Resources Authority, Rwanda; 2: LGAF, United Kingdom; 3: Consultant, Uganda

Using Satellite imagery to improve revenue collection in Kigali

Daniel Ayalew Ali

World Bank, United States of America

The Economic Importance of Forests

Artur Cardoso de Lacerda

IADB, United States of America

Working Towards Secure Land Rights and Shared Value

Justine Sylvester

Village Focus International, Lao People's Democratic Republic

Enabling Indigenous People’s Engagment

Madhavi Pillai

The World Bank, United States of America

Forest-dependent Businesses Contribution to Forest Conservation

Rod Taylor

WRI, United States of America

Overview White Paper Review Process

Cornelis de Zeeuw

Kadaster, Netherlands, The

Introduction White Paper on standardization and LADM

Christiaan Lemmen

Kadaster, Netherlands, The

Introductory Remarks

Maninder Gill

World Bank, United States of America

Strengthening Indigenous PeoplesParticipation in Peru using the DGM Approach

Stamatis Kotouzas

World Bank Group, United States of America

Presentation of Inspection Panel Case

Gonzalo Castro de la Mata

The World Bank, United States of America

Discussant

Anna Autio

The World Bank, United States of America

Closing Remarks

Luis Felipe Duchicela

World Bank, United States of America

The Power of Information: How Data on Changes in Forest Cover can Help Policy Makers, Civil Society, and the Private Sector

Matthew Hansen

University of Maryland, United States of America

Linking Land Use and Land Rights: How Brazil’s Environmental Registry Helps Advance Sustainable Land Management

Izabella Teixeira

Ministry of the Environment, Brazil

Harnessing Open Data to Drive Change: From Local Advocacy to Global Agreements

Andrew Steer

World Resources Institute, United States of America

Transparency International - Land Corruption in Africa - Finding Evidence, Triggering Change

Annette Maria Jaitner, Rute Caldeira

Transparency International Secretariat, Germany

Women, Land and Corruption in Ghana- Findings from a Baseline Survey

Eric Yeboah², Mary Awelana Addah¹, Michael Henchard Okai¹

1: Transparency International - Ghana Integrity Initiative, Ghana; 2: Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technoogy

"The Impact Of Poor Land Governance In the Reduction Of Rural Poverty In Cameroon"

Nyassi Tchakounte Lucain

Transparency International Cameroon, Cameroon

Developing Land Information Management System (LIMS) for County Governments in Kenya.

Lizahmy Ntonjira

The Technical univesity of Kenya, Kenya

Challenges Faced in Implementing Land Market Reform in Ukraine and Ways to Overcome Them

Maksym Martynyuk¹, Denis Bashlyk²

1: Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food, Ukraine; 2: Stategeocadastre, Ukraine

Land Governance Monitoring as a Key Element of Land Market Reform: Deign, Key Insights, and Implications for Moving Forward

Denys Nizalov¹, Klaus Deininger²

1: University of Kent/ KEI at KSE, United Kingdom; 2: The World Bank, United States of America

Where Will Demand for Land Come From? Evidence from Farm Models

Oleg Nivievskyi¹, Heinz Strubenhoff²

1: Kyiv Economic Institute/ Kyiv School of Economics, Ukraine; 2: IFC, United States of America

Long Term Land Financing Requirements in Ukraine

Leah Soroka

IFC, World Bank Group

Demystifying Land Reform in Ukraine by Improving Public Awareness

Olexandr Kaliberda

Chemonics International, Ukraine

Creation of National Spatial Data Infrastructure in Ukraine: Implementation of Projects, Financed by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)

Dmytro Makarenko, Oleksandr Maliuk

State Service of Ukraine for Geodesy, Cartography and Cadastre, Ukraine

Doing (Inclusive) Business in Guinea Bissau: Re-activating the 1998 Land Law

Christopher Tanner¹, Camille Bourguignon²

1: Consultant in land policy and rural development; 2: Senior Land Administration Specialist, the World Bank

Food security narrative and its effects on land governance: Case study of agricultural policies for oil palm in Colombia

Gina Paola Rico Mendez

Mississippi State University, United States of America

Land, Mining And Prior Consultation Of Indigenous Peoples In Peru

Gabriel Sergio Arrisueno Fajardo¹, Luis Miguel Triveno Chan Jan²

1: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Peru; 2: The World Bank

Is This Really Benefit Sharing? Understanding Current Practices Around Community-Investor Agreements Tied to Land Investments

Kaitlin Cordes¹, Tehtena Mebratu-Tsegaye¹, Sam Szoke-Burke¹, Lauren Waugh²

1: Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, United States of America; 2: International Senior Lawyers Project

Land and Gender – Macedonian Experience

Tatjana Cenova-Mitrevska, Sonja Dimova

Agency for Real Estate Cadastre, Macedonia, Former Yugoslav Republic of

Inclusive Land Administration – the Case of Republic Geodetic Authority of Serbia

Milica Colakovic, Vasilija Zivanovic, Srdjan Dabic

Republic Geodetic Authority, Serbia

Securing Land Inheritance and Land Rights for Women in Kenya

Samuel Kimeu, Mary Maneno

Transparency International Kenya, Kenya

Ensuring Gender-equity in Compensation and Resettlement Schemes Related to Commercial Land Investments in Tanzania and Mozambique

Celine Salcedo-LaViña, Laura Notess

World Resources Institute, United States of America

What Prospects for a New Land Policy in DRC?

Andre Teyssier¹, Floribert Nyamwoga²

1: World Bank, United States of America; 2: Ministry of Land Affairs, DRC

Large Scale Land Leases : A Rural Communities' Business

Ndeye Coura Diop, Alain Diouf, Pape Samba Ndiaye, Aliou Bassoum, André Teyssier

PDIDAS, Senegal

The Apology Of The Right To Exploit Rural Land By The “Land And Federal Code” In Benin

Jean Aholou

AFC, Benin

Using LGAF to Develop Land Policy in Mali

Moussa Djiré

Bamako University of Legal and Political Sciences, Mali

The Tenure Gap And Its Influence On Socio-ecological Conditions

Margaret Buck Holland¹, Allison Kelly², Yuta Masuda³, Brian Robinson⁴

1: University of Maryland, Baltimore County, United States of America; 2: University of Washington, United States of America; 3: The Nature Conservancy, United States of America; 4: McGill University, Canada

Land Titles and Agricultural Intensification at Forest Margins in Indonesia

Christoph Kubitza, Vijesh Krishna, Kira Urban, Matin Qaim

Georg-August-University of Goettingen, Germany

The emergence of Conservation Units in the Western Amazon: the case of Extractive Reserves of Acre

Francisco Carlos da Silveira Cavalcanti, Elyson Ferreira de Souza

Universidade federal do Acre, Brazil

Participatory Mapping As a Tool and Approach to Define Traditional User Rights of Forest Land

Božena Lipej¹, Janaq Male²

1: Evro-PF; 2: CNVP

Crowd-sourcing For A Sustainable Land Cadaster – Can SiGIT Be A Lever ?

José Murta¹, Pedro Ivo¹, Jose Almeirim², Marisa Balas¹, Rossana Carimo¹, João Carrilho³

1: EXI Lda, Mozambique; 2: DINAT - National Land Directorate of Mozambique; 3: MB Consulting

Combining Administrative and Open Source Data for Monitoring Land Governance : Mapping Women Land Rights in the Context of UN’s SDG in India

Pranab Ranjan Choudhury¹, Manoj Kumar Manoj Kumar Behera¹, Saumya Sharma², Tajamul Haque³

1: Center for Land Governance, NRMC, India; 2: Delhi University, India; 3: Council for Social Development, India

Using Mobile Phones, GPS, and the Cloud to Deliver Faster, Cheaper, and More Transparent Land Titles: the Case of Burkina Faso

Medard Some¹, Issifou Ganou¹, Anne Girardin², Leonard Rolfes³

1: National Land Observatory of Burkina Faso; 2: Independent Consultant; 3: The Cloudburst Group

Need For Uniform Technological Approaches For Implementation of Operations Secure Land in Rural West Africa: Comparative Study Case of Benin, Burkina Faso and Senegal.

David Daniel Koffi Tossou

Bureau Etudes ATLAS GIS, Benin

Land Use Rights, Land Governance Institutions, and Tenure Security Indicators in a Pastoral Community: Evidence from a Baseline Study in the Afar Region, Ethiopia

Kate Marple-Cantrell¹, Aidan Schneider¹, Heather Huntington¹, Caleb Stevens²

1: The Cloudburst Group, United States of America; 2: USAID, United States of America

Towards Securing Community Land Tenure in Kenya A Holistic Approach To Community-Based Natural Resource Governance:

Husna Mbarak

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Kenya

Strengthening Security of Tenure for Indigenous Bedouins in the West Bank

Shlomit Stein

Norwegian Refugee Council, Palestine

Resilient Pastoral Institution for a Changing Environment: the case of the Stock Routes Co-Management Approach in Western Sudan

Faisl Eljack², Harold Liversage¹, Yonas Mekonen¹

1: International Fund for Agricultural Development; 2: Western Sudan Resource Management Program

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

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

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

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

Harold Liversage, Steven Raoul Filip Jonckheere, Antonio Rota

IFAD, Italy

The Importance of Ostrom’s Design Principles: Youth Group Performance in Northern Ethiopia

Stein T. Holden, Mesfin Tilahun

Norwegian University of Life Science, Norway

Land policy and the youth ‘bulge’ in Ethiopia: How social and economic transformations are scrutinizing the status qou

Hosaena Ghebru, Alemayehu Seyoum Tafesse

International Food Policy Research Institute, United States of America

Land Distribution in Northern Ethiopia From 1998 to 2016:Gender-disaggregated, Spatial and Intertemporal Variation

Mesfin Tilahun Gelaye^1,2, Stein T. Holden¹

1: School of Economics and Business/Centre for Land Tenure Studies, Norwegian University of Life; 2: Mekelle University, Department of Economics

Land As Matrimonial Property In Kenya: Demystifying The Concept Of Contribution To Acquisition Of Land As Matrimonial Property

Mitchelle Oyuga, Nancy Ikinu

Federation of Women Lawyers-Kenya(FIDA-Kenya), Kenya

A Study of Utilization of NSDI for the Sustainable Development

Tetsuya Kusuda

NTT DATA VIETNAM, Vietnam

Republic of Moldova: Geospatial Data for Land Governance

Ovdii Maria

Agency for Land Relations and Cadastre of MOldova, Moldova

Upstream to downstream: Jurisdictional Sub-Landscape approach towards sustainable land use planning

Cut Augusta Mindry Anandi, Christopher P.A Bennett

USAID LESTARI, Indonesia

Exploring Hidden Dimensions: Environmental and Natural Resource Aspects of Poverty

Harun Dogo, Carter Brandon, Therese Norman, Jia Jun Lee, Martin Hager, Shun Chonabayashi, Phoebe Spencer

World Bank Group, United States of America

The Ghana Enterprise Land Information System (GELIS) as a Component of National Geospatial Policy

Graham C Deane¹, Robert M Owen¹, Benjamin Quaye²

1: Airbus Defence and Space, United Kingdom; 2: Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources - Land Administration Project

The Cabo Verde Land Management Information and Transaction System (LMITS). Integrating Spatial and Alphanumeric Information on Land and Property, to Improve Access and Reliability and to Strengthen Transparency

Carlos Varela, Sonia Schofield

Millennium Challenge Account - Cabo Verde II, Cape Verde

A Viable Approach to Establish Conclusive Land Title in India

Satyaprakash Timmiah Lakshmanappa¹, Dr.Sultan Singh Sr. Scientist-SG²

1: Govt of Haryana, India, India; 2: Haryana Space Applications Centre (HARSAC)

Indigenous Peoples and Fragmented Landscapes: Empirical Evidence from 22 Tribal Groups in India

Purabi Bose

Visiting Scholar, Wageningen University

Impact of land rights and titles on agriculture in tribal villages in India

Anugu Amarender Reddy¹, Radhika Rani², Tim Cadman³

1: Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India; 2: National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayat Raj (NIRD & PR), India; 3: Griffith University, Australia

“The Rural Environmental Registry (CAR) - an Opportunity for Integrated Environmental Land Management for Traditional Peoples and Communities in Brazil?"

Elisa de Siqueira¹, Márcia Nogueira Franceschini³, Gabriela Grisolia², Marilu Milanez¹, Stéphanie Nasuti⁴

1: GIZ (German Development Cooperation), Brazil; 2: Ministry of Environment, Brazilian Forest Service, Brazil; 3: Ministry of Environment, Secretariat for Extractivism and Rural Development, Brazil; 4: University of Brasilia, Brazil

Avoiding the Worst-Case Scenario: Whether Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities in Africa and Asia are Vulnerable to Expropriation without Compensation

Nicholas Tagliarino

University of Groningen

Public-Private Partnerships as a Tool to Promote Sustainable Land Administration: Cabo Verde as a Promising Candidate in a Development Context

Ian Rose¹, Richard Baldwin²

1: DAI, United Kingdom; 2: DAI, United Kingdom

LRA's Geo-Spatial Systems and Databases

Robert Nomar Leyretana

Land Registration Authority, Philippines

Registry Cadastre Services Decentralization In The Property Management System In Honduras

Dilma Ortega, Roman Alvarez

Programa de Administración de Tierras de Honduras PATH, Honduras

Implementing the SDGs: Institutional responsibilities, timelines, and implications for land-related indicators

Gregory Scott, Francesca Perucci

United Nations Statistics Division, United States of America

How the World Bank is supporting the SDG process

Neil Fantom

World Bank, United States of America

Operationalizing indicator 1.4.2: Data availability, methodological issues, and country examples

Klaus Deininger¹, Neil Fantom¹, Umar Serajuddin¹, Eduardo Moreno²

1: World Bank, United States of America; 2: UN Habitat, United States of America

A Standard Land Module for Multi-topic Household Surveys

Daniel Ayalew Ali¹, Gero Carletto¹, Klaus Deininger¹, Marguerite Duponchel¹, Thea Hilhorst¹, Heather Moylan², Harriet Mugera²

1: The World Bank, United States of America; 2: The World Bank, Italy

How Geospatial information can make the SDGs more actionable: Overall framework and specific opportunities for indicator 1.4.2

Steven Ramage¹, Gregory Scott²

1: Group on Earth Observations (GEO), France; 2: United Nations Statistics Division, United States of America

Effective Multi-stakeholder Engagement Processes

Merrick Hoben

The Consensus Building Institute, United States of America

Land Rights in Global Value Chains

Elizabeth Fay

Cargill, United States of America

Responsible Investments and Land Rights

Mark Eckstein

CDC Group, United States of America

Expanding and Leveraging Private Sector Action on Land Rights

Donald Bryson Ogden

Rights and Resources Initiative, United States of America

Examples of NGO-private Sector Engagement from Lao PDR

Justine Sylvester

Village Focus International, Lao People's Democratic Republic

Moderator

Oumar Sylla

UN-Habitat, Kenya

Challenges of Land Issues to Attract Investments in Kuwait

Hasan Ali Kamal

Municipal Council of Kuwait, Kuwait

Land Systems to Promote Real Estate Investments

Sultan Alakraf

Dubai Land Department, United Arab Emirates

A Strategic Vision for Regional Cooperation in the Arab Region

Georges Maarrawi

Ministry of Finance, Lebanon (Lebanese Republic)

Importance of Regional Cooperation to Promote Land Governance in the Arab World

Dalal Alnaggar

National Water Research Center (NWRC), Egypt

Discussant

Willi Ernst Zimmermann

Consultant, Germany

Conclusions and Next Steps

Wael Zakout

World Bank, United States of America

Institutional reform to implement the new land policy in Rwanda

Nishimwe Marie Grace

Rwanda Natural Resources Authority, Rwanda

Establishment of the Agence Nationale du Domaine et du Foncier in Benin

Alain Atchade

Agence Nationale du Domaine et du Foncier (ANDF), Benin

Policy and Institutional Reform in Mali

Checkine Mamadou Dieffaga

secretariat permanent de la reforme domaniale et fonciere au Mali, Mali

Policy and Institutional Reform in Mauritania

Mamadou Baro

University of Arizona, United States of America

Institutional developments in Madagascar Land Sector

Rivo Andrianirina - Ratsialonana

Land Observatory Madagascar, Madagascar

Body Of Knowledge

Larry Clark

International Association of Assessng Officers, United States of America

The National Land Capacity Building Model for Informatization – an ICT based model to strengthen human resource capacity for the sustainability of land administration modernization projects

Beckhee Cho¹, Seong-bong Lee², Jaeyong Yoo³

1: LX Korea Land and Geospatial Informatix Corporation, Korea, Republic of (South Korea); 2: 2E Consulting; 3: GEOMEXSOFT.,LTD

Towards a Curriculum on Responsible Land Administration

David Mitchell¹, Agnes Mwasumbi², Jean Du Plessis³, Siraj Sait⁴, Grenville Barnes⁵, Dimo Todorovski⁶

1: RMIT University, Australia; 2: Ardhi University; 3: Global Land Tools Network; 4: University of East London; 5: University of Florida; 6: University of Twente

Curriculum reform in land governance education: the need for transforming existing curricula in Africa

Uchendu Chigbu¹, Kwame Tenadu², Agnes Mwasumbi³

1: Chair of Land Management, Technical University of Munich; 2: Licensed Surveyors Association of Ghana, Ghana; 3: Ardhi University, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Follow up on the Colombian Peace Agreements and Land Tenure Issues: transitions, property rights and tenure security

Margarita María Varón Perea, Tatiana Alfonso, Natalí Buitrago, Javier Caropresse

Colombia Rural S.A.S.

Land Restitution in Colombia: proceeding to a regional sustainable peace

Guillermo Arturo Medina^1,2,3

1: Universidad EAFIT; 2: Escuela Superior de Administración Pública -ESAP-; 3: Asociación Colombiana de Investigadores Urbano Regionales -ACIUR-

Bread or Justice? Land Restitution and Investments in Colombian Agriculture

Henrik Wiig¹, Paola Garcia Reyes²

1: Norwegian Institute of Urban and Regional Research, Norway; 2: Universidad del Norte, Colombia

Analysis of the Implementation of Multipurpose Cadastre in Colombia from an International Perspective

Sandra Esperanza Rodriguez Castañeda¹, Daniel Páez¹, Abbas Rajabifard²

1: University of the Andes, Colombia; 2: University of Melbourne, Australia

Ungendered policies. Gender and land restitution process in Colombia

Paola Garcia Reyes¹, Henrik Wiig²

1: Universidad del Norte, Colombia; 2: Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Science

Access to Land as of Comprehensive Compensation for Indigenous Populations in Colombia

Edwin Novoa

USAIDs Land and Rural Development, Colombia

Geospatial Impact Evaluation and Valuation of Land Degradation Projects

Juha Ilari Uitto¹, Geeta Batra¹, Anupam Anand¹, Dan Runfola², Ariel BenYishay², Jyoteshwar Nagol³

1: Global Environment Facility Independent Evaluation Office, Washington DC; 2: College of William and Mary, USA; 3: University of Maryland, USA

Quantifying The Multiple Environmental Benefits Of Sustainable Land Management Projects: An Analysis Of The Land Degradation Portfolio Of the Global Environment Facility (GEF)

Jean-Marc Sinnassamy, Rahul Madhusudanan, Sonja Teelucksingh, Mattew Foster, Ulrich Apel, Gustavo Fonseca, Asha Bobb-Semple

World Bank, Global Environment Facility, United States of America

SLM Intervention Impact Assessment Using Remotely Sensed Data

Daniel Monchuk, Daniel Ali, Klaus Deininger, Marguerite Duponchel

The World Bank, United States of America

Building Local Capacity to Monitor Land Use Change and Intervention Impacts

Amadou Moctar Dieye

Centre de Suivi Ecologique (CSE), Senegal

Discussant

Stefanie Herrmann

The World Bank, United States of America

Discussant

Ran Goldblatt

UC San Diego, United States of America

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

Worku Chibssa¹, Fiona Flintan²

1: SIT/World Learning Inc; 2: International 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

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

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

Establishing a Science-policy Interface for Sustainable Land Systems – an Initiative of Future Earth’s Global Land Programme (GLP)

Ariane de Bremond^1,2, Isabelle Providoli^1,2, Albrecht Ehrensperger^1,2, Peter Messerli^1,2

1: University of Bern, Centre for Development and Environment (CDE); 2: Global Land Programme

Future Earth and the Science-Policy Nexus: Co-designing a solutions-oriented science for global sustainable development

Sandrine Paillard, Jon Padgham

Future Earth

Rethinking the science-policy nexus in the land sector – Promoting People Centered Land Governance and Monitoring

Ward Anseeuw^1,2, Michael Taylor²

1: CIRAD, France; 2: Iternational Land Coalition, Italy

Fiscal Instruments For Sustainable Development: The Case Of Land Taxes

Matthias Kalkuhl, Blanca Fernandez Milan, Gregor Schwerhoff, Michael Jakob, Felix Creutzig, Maren Hahnen

Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) Berlin, Germany

Leveraging the Land: Creating Sustainable Internally-Generated Revenue

Jill Urban-Karr

Trimble Navigation, Ltd, United States of America

The Principles Of Land Acquisition, Expropriation, And Compensation Calculation For Infrastructure Projects In Turkey

Harun Tanrivermis¹, Yesi̇m Ali̇efendi̇oglu²

1: ankara unıversıty, department of real estate development and management, turkey; 2: ankara unıversıty, department of real estate development and management, turkey

Delivering Land Administration Services At Scale

Faiz Faiz-ul-Hassan, Iqbal Muhammad Zafar

Punjab Land Records Authority, Government of Punjab, Pakistan

How to Implement a Broad Reform Agenda - The role of the Agency for Real Estate Cadastre in development of the property market in Republic of Macedonia

Tatjana Cenova-Mitrevska

Agency for Real Estate Cadastre, Macedonia, Former Yugoslav Republic of

Better Land Management in Botswana Through an Integrated Electronic Land Information System

Niko Zorkin¹, Thato Raphaka², Kent Nilsson³, Moagi Basaakane⁴

1: ENKON Information System, Canada; 2: Ministry of Land Management, Water and Sanitation Services, Botswana; 3: Lantmäteriet; 4: Ministry of Land Management, Water and Sanitation Services, Botswana

Scaling Up a Pilot Land Management Initiative in Uganda to a National Land Information System (NLIS)

Richard Oput¹, Aurélie Milledrogues², Patrick Stimpson², Sergiy Lizenko³, Carol Roffer³, Christopher Burke²

1: Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development (MLHUD), Uganda; 2: Institut Géographique National-France International (IGN-FI); 3: Innola Solutions, Inc.

A Statutory framework for the documentation and codification of customary and informal land rights regimes

Katia Araujo¹, Fridah Githuku², Esther Mwaura-Muiru²

1: Huairou Commission, United States of America; 2: GROOTS Kenya

The Tragedy Of Myopic Policy Planning For The Commons: Managing Customary Land And Other Natural Resources In Zimbabwe’s Mberengwa Communal Area

Takunda Chabata

Women's University In Africa, Zimbabwe

The Evolution of Collective Land Access Regimes in Pastoralist Societies: Lessons from East African Countries

Timothy Njagi Njeru, Lilian Wambui Kirimi

Tegemeo Institute of Agricultural Policy and Development, Kenya

Mapping as Empowerment: Lessons from a Year of Participatory Community Mapping

Marena Brinkhurst¹, Frank Pichel², Hillary Ogina³

1: Namati, United States of America; 2: Cadasta Foundation, United States of America; 3: Kenya Land Alliance, Kenya

More Revenue Mobilization by Strengthening Land Administration in Kampala

Jennifer Semakula Musisi

Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA), Uganda

Drawing Lessons from the Brazil Slum Upgrading Program Minha Casa, Minha Vida

Ines Silva

The World Bank, United States of America

Role of Land Policy in Financing Johannesburg Urban Development

Yondela Silimela

City of Johannesburg, South Africa

Land Value Capture for Urban Revival: The Case of Shenzen

Yu-Hung Hong

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States of America

One Map Policies in Asia, with reference to Indonesia

Mika-Petteri Törhönen

The World Bank, United States of America

OneMap Myanmar – Enabling a Multi-stakeholders Environment for the Coproduction of Data, Information and Knowledge on Land

Joan Bastide¹, U Shwe Thein², Andreas Heinimann¹

1: Centre for Development and Environment - University of Bern; 2: Land Core Group

Cross-Sectoral Information Integration and Sharing in an eGovernment Framework Supporting Integrated Land Development Planning

Michael Epprecht¹, Vong Nanhthavong¹, Cornelia Hett¹, Savanh Hanaphom³, Anongsone Phommachanh²

1: Centre for Development and Environmnet CDE, Office in the Lao People's Democratic Republic; 2: Department of Land Administration, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Laos; 3: Department of Planning and Cooperation, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Laos

Building Research Capacity on Land in Africa: Harnessing AERC's Experience

Lemma Senbet, Innocent Matshe

African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), Kenya

How NELGA Hubs can Help Support Informed Land Policy at National and Regional Level

Charl-Thom Hilgardt Bayer

Namibia University of Science and Technology, Namibia

Supporting Access to Spatial Data and Capacity: A Regional Perspective

Emmanuel Nkurunziza

Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD), Rwanda

NEPAD's Role in Strengthening National Institutions for Data and Land Policy Analysis: Opportunities to Build on LGAF

Mandi Rukuni¹, Estherine Fotabong², Rudo Makunike²

1: NEPAD, Zimbabwe; 2: NEPAD, South Africa

Long-term Benefits from Supporting National Policy-making through Spatial Data and Analysis: The Example of Senegal

Assize Touré, Amadou Moctar Dieye

Centre de Suivi Ecologique (CSE), Senegal

Introduction to State of Play

Fernando Pedro Mendez Gonzalez

COLEGIO DE REGISTRADORES DE ESPAÑA, Spain

HMLR Land Registry of England and Wales: A Graphic Identification without Cadastre

Alasdair Murray Lewis

HM Land Registry, United Kingdom

Economics of the Interaction between Land Registries and Cadastres

Benito Arrunada

Pompeu Fabra University, Spain

Advantages and disadvantagesof a merger organization:the case of the Kadaster- Netherlands

Willem Louwman

European Land Registry Association, Netherlands, The

Land Policy and Urban Development in Mali: Coping with the Data Quality Challenge

Monique Bertrand¹, Mamy Soumaré², Samba Dembélé³

1: Institute of Research for Development (French IRD), France; 2: Université des Sciences Sociales et de Gestion de Bamako, Mali; 3: Institut d'Economie Rurale, Mali

Implementation challenges of land administration in rural areas of Haiti: from the elaboration of a pre-cadaster methodology to the land tenure reform

Michele Oriol¹, Bruno Jacquet², Anastasia Touati³

1: Comité Inter Ministériel d'Aménagement du Territoire, Haiti; 2: Inter American Development Bank; 3: World Bank

Role Constructive Notice Could Play to Formalize Property Rights in Kosovo

John Keefe, Merita Limani, Gent Salihu

Tetra Tech, United States of America

Land Administration and Management in Haiti Program: Next Action Phase Delivering Scalable Community Level Solutions

Elizabeth Blake

Habitat for Humanity International (retired), United States of America

Institutional Reform as a Key Driver in the Delivery of Modern Land Administration

Peter Ritchie

GIS Transport, Nigeria

The National Spatial Data Infrastructure of Zambia

Shlomo Sivan

Sivan Design D.S. Ltd, Israel

Establishing A Delivery Unit For Land Administration- How To Deliver Land Administration Services In Developing Countries, Sustainably And To Scale.

Owen Edwards

Private Individual, United States of America

Conceptual Modelling Of Information System Process To Design Tech Solutions To Fight Land Corruption Through Transparency International's Land and Corruption In Africa Programme

Jean Brice Tetka, George Anadiotis, Andrea Staeritz

Transparency International-Secretariat, Germany

Comparative Land Governance Research in the Caribbean and Latin America: Recent Findings from Five National Case Studies

Michael Donovan

Inter-American Development Bank, United States of America

Challenge and Opportunities for the VGGT Implementation in Latin America and the Caribbean

Aurélie Brès

FAO, Chile

The Challenges of Land Governance in a High-Income, High-Potential, Small Island Developing State: the Case of Trinidad and Tobago

Charisse Griffith-Charles¹, Robin Rajack²

1: The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago; 2: Inter-American Development Bank

Applying an Adjusted Land Governance Assessment Framework (LGAF) to Evaluate the Relationships between Land Cadasters and Informality: Lessons from Brazil and Ecuador | Usando el Marco Ajustado de Evaluación de la Gobernanza de la Tierra (LGAF) para evaluar las relaciones entre el Catastro Territorial y la Informalidad: Lecciones desde Brasil y Ecuador

Diego Alfonso Erba¹, Michael Donovan²

1: Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Argentine Republic; 2: Inter-American Development Bank

International Standards- a critical contribution to disaster recovery

Benjamin Lee Elder

RICS

Urban Disaster Resilience through Risk Assessment and Sustainable Planning

Rainer Malmberg, Krätzschmar Elke

IABG mbH, Germany

Searching Position in Non-residential Areas in Emergency and Disaster Situations by using the National Point Number

Yongjong Lee

LX Korea Land and Geospatial Informatix Corporation, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

Harnessing Land Information Through Cloud-Based Platforms For A Resilient Society

Julia Painter, Carsten Roensdorf, Ben Rodgers, John Kedar

Ordnance Survey, United Kingdom

Creating an appropriate tenure foundation for REDD+: The record to date and prospects for the future

William Sunderlin¹, Claudio De Sassi², Erin Sills³, Amy Duchelle⁴, Anne Larson⁵, Ida Aju Pradnja Resosudarmo⁶, Abdon Awono⁷, Demetrius Kweka⁸, Thu Ba Huynh⁹

1: Independent consultant, United States of America; 2: Ministry of the Environment, Switzerland; 3: North Carolina State University, United States of America; 4: CIFOR, Indonesia; 5: CIFOR, Peru; 6: Independent consultant, Australia; 7: Paul-Valéry University, France; 8: Independent consultant, Tanzania; 9: University of Melbourne, Australia

Community Land Rights Delimitation and Natural Resources Management in Mozambique: Significance and Implications for Sustainable and Inclusive Development

André Aquino¹, João Fonseca²

1: World Bank, Mozambique; 2: World Bank, Mozambique

Gender In Collective Tenure Regimes: Women Rights And Forest Tenure Reforms

Anne M. Larson¹, Iliana Monterroso¹, Esther Mwangi¹, Nining Liswanti¹, Tuti Herawati¹, Mani Banjade¹, Baruani Mshale¹, Julia Quaedvlieg²

1: CIFOR, Peru; 2: Independant

Securing the Commons in India: A Polycentric Approach

Ruth Meinzen-Dick¹, Jagdeesh Rao², Rahul Chaturvedi², R Kaushalendra Rao², Sophie Theis¹

1: IFPRI, United States of America; 2: Foundation for Ecological Security, India

Institutional Innovation and the Protection of Livestock Corridors in Agropastoral Drylands

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

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

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

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

Kristie Maczko¹, John Tanaka², Bree Lind³

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

Dispossession through Formalization: The Plight of Pastoralists in Tanzania

Kelly Askew¹, Faustin Maganga², Rie Odgaard³

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

Advocating for Safeguards in Governing Land for Investment: Ethiopia, Mozambique, Uganda, and Malawi

Juliana Nnoko Mewanu, Maria Burnett, Felix Horne, Katharina Rall, Nisha Varia, Janet Walsh

Human Rights Watch

Responsible Large-Scale Land Investments in Uganda: Current Application and Potential Scope of International Safeguards

Tobias Vorlaufer¹, Felix Schilling², Michael Kirk¹, Christian Graefen²

1: University of Marburg, Germany; 2: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)

Mechanisms for Consultation and Free, Prior and Informed Consent in the Negotiation of Land Contracts

Sam Szoke-Burke, Kaitlin Cordes

Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, United States of America

Pre-existing Community Land Disputes In Private Sector Investments and Development Interventions

Karol Boudreaux¹, Darryl Vhugen^1,2, Nicole Walter¹

1: The Cloudburst Group, United States of America; 2: Independent Consultant

Assessing The Maturity Of National And Regional Geospatial Infrastructures: Providing The Evidence To Assist Economies And Improve Strategic Decision-Making

Dr Vanessa Lawrence CB¹, Gilles Albaredes², John Schonegevel³, Maurits van der Vlugt⁴

1: Location International; 2: 2market2market; 3: New Frontiers; 4: Mercury Project Solutions

Creating a Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Diagnostic Tool

Kathrine Kelm¹, Rumyana Tonchovska², Mark Probert³

1: World Bank, United States of America; 2: FAO of the UN, Rome Italy; 3: Consultant

Governance in Support of Global Agenda. Good Practices from Serbia

Rumyana Tonchovska¹, Borko Drashkovic², Jelena Matic-Varenica², Darko Vucetic²

1: Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN, Italy; 2: Republic Geodetic Authority, Republic of Serbia

Potential of Spatial Data Infrastructure in Poland

Ewa Maria Surma

Head Office of Geodesy and Cartography, Poland

Boosting the registration of land rights in step with the SDG’s

Cornelis de Zeeuw, Christiaan Lemmen

Kadaster, The Netherlands

Land: The Hidden Assets in African Cities

Gora Mboup

Global Observatory linking Research to Action (GORA), United States of America

Community-Led, Citywide Settlement Profiling And Upgrading As Evidence Based Approach To Land Governance: The Case Of Muntinlupa City, Philippines

Qhobela Cyprian Selebalo⁵, Louie Robert Posadas³, Villa Mae Libutaque⁴, Ruby Papeleras¹, Lunalyn Cagan³, Danilo Antonio⁵, John Gitau⁵, Hellen Nyamweru Ndung'u⁵, Deanne Ayson²

1: Homeless People’s Federation Philippines, Inc.; 2: Philippine Action for Community-led Shelter Initiatives, Inc.; 3: Technical Assistance Movement for People and Environment, Inc.; 4: LinkBuild, Inc.; 5: UN-Habitat/GLTN

Making the Community Land Bill Effective: The Case of Mashimoni Settlement in Nairobi County and Kwa Bulo Settlement in Mombasa County of Kenya

Danson Maina¹, Rebecca Ochong², Danilo Antonio¹, Steve Ouma²

1: Pamoja Trust, Kenya; 2: UN-Habitat/GLTN

The Role Of Gender In Securing Land Rights For Equity, Sustainability, And Resilience

Nangobi Joyce RoseMary¹, Pamela Ransom²

1: Slum Women's Initiative for Development (SWID), Uganda; 2: Metropolitan College New York City

Securing Land Rights within the Continuum of Land Rights Approach: Evidence from the Poor Urban Communities in Kenya and Uganda

Danilo Antonio¹, Julius Okello², Nelson Marongwe¹, Hellen Nyamweru¹

1: UN-Habitat; 2: African Institute for Strategic Research Governance and Development

Managing Customary Land in Fiji

Kelera Gadolo

I Taukei Land Trust Board, Fiji Islands

Complications in land allocations: appraisal of the Community Land Act 2016, Kenya

Mr. Tom Chavangi, Prof. Muhammad Swazuri, Mr. Geoffrey Nyamasege, Ms Esterina Dokhe

National Land Commission, Kenya

Territorial planning at community level in Mozambique: opportunities and challenges in a context of community land delimitation

José Monteiro¹, Antonio Inguane¹, Emídio Oliveira¹, Simão Joaquim², Lázaro Matlava²

1: Community Land initiative (iTC), Mozambique; 2: Ministry of Land, Environment and Rural Development, National Directorate of Land

Has Devolution of Forest Rights in Nepal Enabled Investment in Locally Controlled Forest Enterprises?

Bishnu Prasad Sharma¹, Steven Lawry², Naya Sharma Paudel³, Anukram Adhikary³, Mani Ram Banjade²

1: Tribhuvan University, Nepal; 2: Center for International Forestry Research; 3: Forest Action, Nepal

Approach to Global Indicators

Augusto Lopez Claros

World Bank, United States of America

Expanding the Property Module in Doing Business

Rita Ramalho, Adrian Gonzalez

World Bank, United States of America

Next Phase for Enabling the Business of Agriculture

Federica Saliola

World Bank, United States of America

Piloting the Land Component in EBA

Klaus Deininger

World Bank, United States of America

Exploring Participatory Prospective Analysis: A collaborative, Scenario-based Approach for Analyzing and Anticipating the Consequences of Tenure Reform Implementation

Nining Liswanti

Center for International Forestry Research, Indonesia

Collective Titling in Peru: Challenges and Opportunities

Iliana Monterroso¹, Anne M. Larson¹, Zoila Cruz-Burga², Alejandra Zamora¹

1: CIFOR, Peru; 2: UNALM, Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina, Peru

Securing Forest Tenure Rights for Rural Development in Latin America

Gerardo Segura Warnholtz

The World Bank Group, United States of America

Making Legality Work to Recognize Land Rights, Improve Land Governance, and Combat Forest Conversion

Sandra Nichols Thiam, Lea Turunen, Christophe Van Orshoven

European Forest Institute FLEGT/REDD+ Unit, Spain

Introduction

Ruth Meinzen-Dick

IFPRI, United States of America

Perspective from Government on Progress and Challenges of Implementing Kenya's Community Land Rights Bill

Charles Otieno Konyango

National Land Commission, Kenya

Devolving rights over forest land to communities in Indonesia

Hadi Daryanto

Ministry of Environment and Forestry of the Republic of Indonesia, Indonesia

Perspective of Implementing Community Land Rights in Uganda

Judy Adoko

Land and Equity Movement in Uganda - LEMU, Uganda

Lessons from Programs Designed to Strengthen the Commons

Harold Liversage

International Fund for Agricultural Development, Italy

Current Research on the Commons: Topics, Methods, Insights

Steven Lawry

Center for International Forestry Research, Indonesia

Concluding remarks

Cristina Timponi Cambiaghi

International Land Coalition, Italy

Rethinking Land Readjustment from a Governance-Centered Perspective: The Case of A Land Readjustment Pilot in Tra Vinh, Vietnam

Mansha Chen, Hoa Thi Mong Pham

World Bank, United States of America

Exploring the Potential of the Land Readjustment Approach in Allocating Land for Affordable Housing from the Market Legitimacy Perspective

Reshma Shrestha^1,2, Jaap Zevenbergen¹, Fahria Masum¹, Mahesh Banskota²

1: University of Twente, Netherlands, The; 2: Kathmandu University, Nepal

Embracing the Rubber-Boot Approach to Securing Customary Land Rights with focus on Low-Cost Land-Use Inventory

Tobias Bendzko¹, Prince Donkor Ameyaw¹, Uchendu Eugene Chigbu¹, Walter Timo de Vries¹, Derek Osei Tutu²

1: Chair of Land Management, Technical University Munich; 2: Public and Vested Land Management Division, Lands Commission. Accra-Ghana

From Squatter Farmers To Tenant Farmers: Application Of Low Cost Geo-Spatial Technologies in Kalangala

Richard Kabuleta¹, Connie Masaba¹, Danilo Antonio², Samuel Mabikke², Solomon Mkumbwa², Harold Liversage³

1: Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries, Uganda; 2: UN-Habitat/GLTN; 3: IFAD

Scalability of Forest Land Mapping Interventions Undertaken Using GIS Technology in Context of Up-Scaling Implementation of Forest Rights Act in India – Emerging Evidence from the Ground

Ruchika Singh

World Resources Institute India

Land Documentation in Zambia: A Comparison of Approaches and Relevance for the National Land Titling Program

Matthew Sommerville¹, Ioana Bouvier², Bwalya Chuba¹, Joseph Minango³

1: USAID Tenure and Global Climate Change Project, Zambia; 2: USAID; 3: Surveyor General, Ministry of Lands, Zambia

Rigorous Impact Evaluation of Land Surveying Costs: Empirical Evidence from Indigenous Lands in Canada

Steven Rogers¹, Brian Ballanytne¹, Ceilidh Ballantyne²

1: Natural Resources Canada, Canada; 2: University of British Columbia, Canada

Stakeholder Engagement and Conflict Prevention in Village Boundary Setting/ Resource Mapping (VBS/RM) – Lessons Learned/Evidence from Indonesia’s Participatory Mapping and Planning (PMaP) Project, MCA-Indonesia Green Prosperity Project (GP)

Dhyana Paramita

Abt Associates, Indonesia

Strengthening Indigenous Peoples Land rights in Honduras: The Miskitu People’s experience of Collective Land Titling, lessons learned and main challenges for the future

Roman Alvarez¹, Enrique Pantoja², Alain Paz³, Gerson Granados⁴

1: Programa de Administracion de Tierras de Honduras (PATH II); 2: World Bank; 3: 1; 4: 1

Global Campaign to Eradicate Insecurity of Tenure by 2030

Robin McLaren¹, Stig Enemark²

1: Know Edge Ltd, United Kingdom; 2: Aalborg University, Denmark

Opportunities And Constraints For Building A Global Movement For Secure Land Tenure And Property Rights

Malcolm Childress

Land Alliance, United States of America

Land in the New Urban Agenda: Opportunities, Challenges and Way Forward

Danilo Antonio¹, Oumar Sylla¹, Bahram Ghazi², Katia Araujo³, Rebecca Ochong¹, Susana Rojas-Williams⁴

1: UN-Habitat; 2: United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR); 3: Huairou Commission; 4: Habitat for Humanity International

Evidence Based Land Governance to Achieve Agenda 2030; Experiences from Global Land Indicator Initiative

Everlyne Nairesiae Lingoine¹, Marc Wegerif², Diana Fletschner³, Robert Ndungwa⁴, Ward Anseeuw⁵

1: GLII/GLTN - UN Habitat; 2: Oxfam International; 3: Landesa; 4: UN Habitat; 5: International Land Coalition

Law and Inclusive Urban Development: Lessons from Chile's Enabling Markets Housing Policy Regime

Diego Gil Mc Cawley

Stanford Law School, United States of America

Housing Affordability: The Land Use Regulation link to Informal Tenure in Developing Countries

Cynthia Goytia, Ricardo Pasquini

Torcuato Di Tella University, Argentine Republic

Evaluating “Zero Land Policy”: Iran’s initiative to provide homes for those with lower incomes

Tohid Atashbar

Research Center of Iran's Parliament, Iran, Islamic Republic of

Land Administration Effectiveness in State-Subsidised Housing in Du Noon, Cape Town, South Africa

Michael Barry

University of Calgary, Canada

“From The Right To Housing To The Defense of Titling And Private Property: A Critique Of The Peruvian Approach to Housing Informality And A Contribution To A New Land And Housing Policy”

Sofia Garcia

Special Program for Urban and Regional Studies - MIT, United States of America

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

1: Village Focus International; 2: Ministry 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

1: UNCTAD, Switzerland; 2: World Bank, USA

Towards an efficient and effective Land Administration System: The case of Ghana’s legislative Reform; Lessons and Challenges

Kofi Abakah Blankson

MINISTRY OF LANDS AND NATURAL RESOURCES, Ghana

The South African Land Observatory – The Establishment of a Multi-stakeholder Platform for Multi-level Evidence-based Decision-making on Land in South Africa

Thinah Moyo¹, Ward Anseeuw²

1: University of Pretoria, South Africa; 2: International Land Coalition

Using LGAF as a basis for land policy dialogue and monitoring progress

Zerfu Hailu Gebrewold

NIRAS/LGAF Ethiopia Country Coordinator, Ethiopia

Delivering Land Administration Service At Scale Through Major Land Reforms- Malawi`s Experience

Devie Chilonga, Ivy Julie Luhanga, Kwame Ngwira, Charles Msosa

Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development

Digital Globe for Sustainable Development to the Developing Countries: Case Study in Sri Lanka

Kalum Udagepola, Indira Wittamperuma, Pasindu Udagepola

Scientific Research Development Institute of Technology Australia, Australia

Geospatial Information drives benefits beyond Land Administration – why aren’t we taking them?

John David Kedar, Julia Painter

Ordnance Survey International, United Kingdom

Economic and Financial Analysis of National Spatial Data Infrastructure: A Case Study

Kathrine Kelm¹, Aanchal Anand¹, Andrew Coote²

1: World Bank, United States of America; 2: Consultingwhere, United Kingdom

Best Practice in Business Case Preparation: Valuing Social and Economic Benefits of Investment in Geospatial projects

Andrew Coote

Consultingwhere Ltd, United Kingdom

Economic and Financial Modelling of the Impact of Geospatial Information - Techniques and Results for land administration in developing Nations.

Alan Smart¹, Andrew Coote²

1: ACIL Allen Consulting, Australia; 2: Consultingwhere, UK

Between informal and illegal: Noncompliance with Planning and Building Laws

Rachelle Alterman¹, Ines Calor²

1: Neaman Institute, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Israel; 2: Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Honduras Experience with Land Regularization in Urban and Peri-Urban Areas

Alain Adalberto Paz Quesada¹, Roman Alvarez¹, Enrique Pantoja²

1: Programa de Administración de Tierras de Honduras (PATH II), Honduras; 2: The World Bank

(Formalizing) Informal Housing: Addressing the Elephant in the Room

Victor Endo¹, Luis Triveno², Abel Alarco³

1: Land Alliance; 2: World Bank; 3: NG Quality

Invasion of vacant lands in the realm of urban development: a case study of the Kenya coast

Prof. Muhammad Swazuri, Mr. Geoffrey Nyamasege, Mr. Tom Chavangi, Ms Esterina Dokhe

National Land Commission, Kenya

Analyzing the enabling environment for transforming forest landscape conflicts: the example of Lao PDR

Seth Kane¹, Richard Hackman², Bounyadeth Phouangmala¹, David Gritten¹

1: RECOFTC, Thailand; 2: Independent Consultant

ADR as a viable tool in land conflicts: a Kenyan Perspective

Geoffrey Nyamasege, Prof. Muhammad Swazuri, Tom Chavangi

National Land Commission, Kenya

Managing Challenges And Security Threats From Conflicting Judgements On Land In Ghana

Daud Sulemana Mahama

Ministry of Lands & Natural Resources, Ghana

Strengthening Land Governance To Advance Africa's Social And Economic Transformation

Rudo Eusebia Makunike¹, Estherine Fotabong¹, Mandivamba Rukuni²

1: NEPAD, South Africa; 2: BEAT, Zimbabwe

Empirical Analysis of Models on Good Governance in Land Administration: Basis for Philippine Poverty Alleviation

Lovell Maniego Abello¹, Crisanto Asprer Cocal²

1: ANGELES UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION, Philippines; 2: Crisanto A. Cocal Law Firm

Strategic Business Plans as Tool to Implement the Government Development Agenda

Tatjana Cenova-Mitrevska, Goce Gruevski

Agency for Real Estate Cadastre, Macedonia, Former Yugoslav Republic of

Leveraging Collective Land Documentation Processes to Secure Community Land and Resource Rights: Lessons from Jigawa State, Northern Nigeria

Ali D. Kaba^1,2, Muhammadu Lamin Ahmad¹

1: Adam Smith International, Nigeria; 2: Sustainable Development Institute

A New, Old Role Of Cadastre – Taxation

Borko Draskovic, Petar Jovanov, Marija Raskovic

Republic Geodetic Authority, Serbia

The Performance of Local Grassroots Level Rural Land Administration Institutions in Amhara Region, Ethiopia

Achamyeleh Gashu Adam

Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia

Regularization in Brazil: the study of successful cases

Glaciele Leardine Moreira, Ana Paula Silva Bueno, Bastian Philip Reydon

Universidade de Campinas, Brazil

Sustainable and Effective Land Management: GDRLC, Turkey

Mehmet Fatih Diri, Ahmet Fatih Tahiroglu

General Directorate of Land Registy and Cadastre, Turkey

Development of Land policy in Republic of Macedonia-Why it is Important for the Country

Tatjana Cenova-Mitrevska, Darko Crvenkovski

Agency for Real Estate Cadastre, Macedonia, Former Yugoslav Republic of

Brazilian Amazon Deforestation and Land Governance

Bastiaan Philip Reydon, Vitor Fernandes

UNICAMP, Brazil

Land Governance and Management, Strategic Leadership, Land Governance.

Martin Oloo

PhD student, Kenya

The Project Of Land Reform In The Congo. The Impasses On Starting Point

Kambale Nzweve

Université Catholique du Graben, Congo, Democratic Republic of the

Infer Geospatial Metadata to Churn out and Showcase Utility by Employing ‘Management by Objective’: Case Study from India

Vrajlal Sapovadia

The American University of Nigeria, Nigeria

Forest Tenure Reform Implementation: Perspectives From National And Sub-national Government Officials in Multiple Settings

Tuti Herawati Hadis, Esther Mwangi, Illiana Monterosso, Baruani Mshale, Anne Larson, Mani Ram Banjade, Nining Liswanti

Centre for International Forestry Research, Indonesia

Perspectives on Capacity to Produce Credible, Reliable Evidence on Land Governance: Observations from LGAF Processes in 5 African Countries

Susan Mbaya

Sue Mbaya and Associates, South Africa

Land Administration Reforms for Enhancement of Delivery of Land Services in Uganda

Richard Oput

Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Uganda

Enabling Formalising Of Informal Markets Through Block chain For Unregistered Real estate

Manohar Velpuri¹, Anusha Pidugu², Jyothsna Velpuri³, Surya Bhamidipati⁴, MadhuAman Sharma⁵, Chetan Maringanti⁶

1: FIG, Denmark; 2: Texas A&M; 3: Absolutum Pte Ltd; 4: k2amanagement; 5: Paypal; 6: Zurich financial services

Use of Standard Vocabularies in the Land Sector

Lisette Meij

Land Portal Foundation, Netherlands, The

Information at a glance - Distribution system for data and services dissemination

Vlatko Dimovski, Goran Nikolov

Agency for Real Estate Cadastre, Macedonia, Former Yugoslav Republic of

Analysis of the Economic Impact of Systematic Land Title Registration (SLTR) in Kano State, Nigeria

Ahmad Tsauni Muhammad

Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria, Nigeria

Securing Land Rights for Equity, Sustainability and Resilience: Evidence from Innovative and Gender Responsive Tools for Implementation of Uganda’s National Land Policy

Samuel Mabikke¹, Naome Kabanda², Oumar Sylla¹, Danilo Antonio¹, Harrison Irumba²

1: United Nations Human Settlement Programme, Kenya; 2: Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Uganda

SiGIT Mobile Application For a Sustainable Land Registration in Mozambique

Marisa Balas, Pedro Ivo Neves, Hikesh Hasmukh, Rossana Carimo Soares, Simone Fernando, Boane Jorge

EXI LDA, Mozambique

Mass Valuation for Taxation in Circumstances of Limited Market Transparency. Nigeria Case Study

Aivar Tomson

DTZ, Estonia

The Requirements Of Mass Appraisal For Real Estate Valuation For Taxation And Proper Tax Administration: Land Implications In The Case Of Turkey

Harun Tanrivermis

ankara university, Turkey

Towards an Improved Local Governance and Service Delivery:Opportunities and Challenges of Property Rating in Ghana and Uganda

Derek Osei Tutu¹, Simon Peter Mwesigye²

1: Lands Commission, Ghana; 2: UNOPS, Uganda

Viability of Premiums, Annual Rents and Property Taxes as a Means of Financing Infrastructure Development in Kenya

Danson Maina, Diana Kinya

Pamoja Trust, Kenya

Financing Rural Infrastructure For Food Security

Laura Turley, Carin Smaller, William Speller, Mohamed Coulibaly, Perera Oshani, Francine Picard

IISD, Switzerland

Eminent Domain – Factual Issues with Land Acquisition And Proposed Remedies For Sustainable Development In India

Vilas Sonawane, Ashish Sonawane

Bhartiya Agro Economic Research Center, India

Rehabilitation and Resettlement in Tehri Hydro Power Project-India

Anugu Amarender Reddy¹, Radhika Rani², Tim Cadman³

1: Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India; 2: National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayat Raj (NIRD & PR), India; 3: Griffith University, Australia

A Shifting Perspective of Land Acquisition Regime in India: An Evaluation of the proposed “Governance Framework, Pro-poor Development Rights and Urban Policy Management” through “Results Based Management / Evidence Based Approach” to Urban Policy and Management.

Anuradha Palanichamy

Public Sector Management Expert (South Asia), Jindal School of Government and Public Policy, India

Land Heirs Without Land

Ngouhouo Souleman, Akamba Gilles Yvans

GADL (Groupe d'Appui au Développement Local), Cameroon

From the Right to Compensation to the Right Compensation in Large-Scale Land Acquisitions

Marcello De Maria^1,2

1: University of Reading, School of Agriculture, Policy and Development; 2: Land Portal Foundation

National Consultant-Social Safeguard Resettlement Specialist

Md Mayen Uddin Tazim

Coastal Climate Resilient Infrastructure Project (CCRIP), ADB, Bangladesh, People's Republic of

Land For Infrastructure Development: Compulsory Acquisition And Compensation Of Unregistered/Undocumented Land In Kenya

Monica Obongo, Agatha Wanyonyi

Ministry of Lands and Physical Planning, Kenya

Recent Developments in Land Consolidation Projects in Turkey

Yasemin Sürmeli, A.Burak Keser, Hasan Şanlı

Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock, General Directorate of Agrarian Reform, Ankara, Turkey

Insights from Space and Time: Big Data for Land Governance

Peter Baumann

Jacobs University, Germany

Governance And The Geo-web: Enhancing Participation And Governance Within Informal Settlement Upgrading Processes

Musyimi Mbathi

University of Nairobi, Kenya

A Methodological Approach To Estimate Changes On Population Density In A LUCC Model: A Case Study In Bogota, Colombia

Sebastian Alejandro Cardenas Reyes¹, Daniel Paez¹, Abbas Rajabifard², Hernando Vargas¹

1: Universidad de los Andes, Colombia; 2: The University of Melbourne, Australia

Pixel Level Land Use and the Impacts of Biophysical Factors

Jingyu Song¹, Michael Delgado¹, Paul Preckel¹, Nelson Villoria²

1: Purdue University, United States of America; 2: Kansas State University, United States of America

The US Soil Information System: A Model for Data Collection, Curation and Distribution

Michael Robotham, David Hoover, David Lindbo

USDA-NRCS, United States of America

Drivers of Deforestation in Indonesia: Spatial Panel Data Analysis

Amare Teklay Hailu, Arild Angelsen

Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway

Spatially Smoothing Farmer's Biophysical and Perceived Vulnerability to Climate Change

Maaz Gardezi

Iowa State University, United States of America

Weather-Based Irrigation Control in the Cloud

Michael Davidson

Davidson Consultants, United States of America

Spatial Data and Service Infrastructures to Support Inter-Disciplinary Modeling of Disaster Cascades and Resilience Assessment

Vassilios Vescoukis¹, Panagiotis Galanis², Ioanna Theologou¹

1: National Technical University of Athens, Greece; 2: ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Big Data And A Spatial Hedonic Approach: Addressing The Land Market Information Gap And Estimating Land Prices Determinants In Metropolitan Regions From Developing Countries.

Cynthia Goytia, Guadalupe Dorna

Torcuato Di Tella University, Argentine Republic

STDM Software Advances - Desktop and Online Hosting Options

Arnulf Christl¹, John Gitau², Cyprian Selebalo², Danilo Antonio²

1: Metaspatial, Germany; 2: UN Habitat

Use of Linked Data in Preventing Forest Fires

Sonja Dimova

Agency for Real Estate Cadastre, Macedonia, Former Yugoslav Republic of

Partage des résultats de l’étude étude régionale sur les marchés fonciers ruraux en Afrique de l’Ouest et sur les outils de leur régulation commanditée par UEMOA et confiée à IPAR

KA Ibrahima

Initiative Prospective Agricole et Rurale, Senegal

Land Tenancy Contract Structure and Its Economy Impact

Jianyun Hou, Jundi Liu, Xuexi Huo

Northwest Agriculture & Forestry University, People's Republic of China

Soil Moisture Determination Using Remote Sensing Data for the Property Protection and Increase of Agriculture Production

Jelena Matic Varenica, Ivan Potic, Marko Bugarski

Republic Geodetic Authority, Serbia

Efficiency of Land Tenure Contracts in West Java, Indonesia.

Erizal Jamal, Maesti Mardiharini

Indonesian Institute for Agricultural Technology transfer, Indonesia

Using Participatory Video to Promote Land Rights of Women: A case study of How Corruption Impacts on Widows in the Northern Region of Ghana

Gareth Benest¹, Mary Awelana Addah², Michael Henchard Okai², Jacob Ahuno²

1: InsightShare-UK; 2: Transparency International - Ghana Integrity Initiative, Ghana

Does Land Tenure Explain Distress Sale in Agriculture?: Evidence from India

Vinish Kathuria, Disha Bhanot

SJM School of Management of Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India

Property Rights and Owner Occupied Housing Investment: Evidence fromUrban Ethiopia

Ziade Hailu

Makerere University, Ethiopia

Proposed Private Sector Driven Interventionist Implementation Of The LGAF, Towards Equitable Land Governance / Ownership Delivery For Nigeria.

Nosakhare, Edward Ogunmwonyi

Universite Libre De Bruxelles, Faculty of Architecture, La Cambre-Horta, Place Eugene Flagey 19, B-1050 Brussels.

Land Governance in Urban Areas: Case of Nairobi City

Victor Ouna

Technical University of Kenya, Kenya

Working With Local Poor Land Owners In The Peri Urban Areas Of Lima Peru, To Creating Land Supply For Housing

Juan Carlos Calizaya¹, Maria Luisa Alvarado²

1: Instituto de Desarrollo Urbano CENCA; 2: Habitat for Humanity International LAC Region

Does Urban Extension Affect Inequality And Segregation? An Empirical Study Of Causal Effects In Argentina’s Cities.

Cynthia Goytia, Guadalupe Dorna

Torcuato Di Tella University, Argentine Republic

Can extractive cities become sustainable? Contribution for a policy making framework in Argentina, Brazil and Chile

Analia Garcia

MIT, United States of America

Knowledge Mobilization and Capacity Building for Action towards Co-responsible Land Governance

Raquel Ludermir¹, Maria Luisa Alvarado Zanelli², Lina Maria Obando Márquez², Laura Meggiolaro³

1: Grupo Urbano de Instrumentos de Suelo, América Latina y Caribe; 2: Habitat for Humanity International Latin America and Caribbean Area Office; 3: Land Portal Foundation

Infrastructure Cadastre is key factor for economic growth and development of the country

Elizabeta Dukadinovska, Slavce Trpeski, Lidija Krstevska

Agency for Real Cadastre, Macedonia, Former Yugoslav Republic of

An experience of regularization private urban in Brazil: the case of Terra Nova Urban Land Regularization ltda.

Ana Paula da Silva Bueno¹, Bastiaan Philip Reydon^1,2, Glaciele Leardine Moreira³, André Albuquerque⁴

1: universidade estadual de campinas unicamp, brazil; 2: universidade estadual de campinas unicamp, brazil; 3: universidade estadual de campinas unicamp, brazil; 4: terra novaregularizações fundiárias urbanas ltda

Urban planing for sustainable development - Macedonian experience

Goce Gruevski

Agency for real estate cadastre, Macedonia, Former Yugoslav Republic of

Analyzing Land Use Change In Urban Environments In Africa Sub Sahara

Dangoumba François

Ministère des Marchés Publics, Cameroon

Inheritance Dynamics and Women land Rights in Nigeria

Daniel Ayalew Ali², Klaus Deininger², Hosaena Ghebru¹

1: International Food Policy Research Institute, United States of America; 2: The World Bank, United States of America

Land access, tenure security and the fate of rural youth in Africa: the case of Ondo state - Nigeria

Hosaena Ghebru¹, Klaus Deininger², Daniel Ayalew Ali²

1: International Food Policy Research Institute, United States of America; 2: The World Bank, United States of America

Land Access, Tenure Security and the Fate of Rural Youth in Africa: The Case of Mozambique

Hosaena Ghebru¹, Helder Zavale²

1: International Food Policy Research Institute, United States of America; 2: Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique

Land Service Delivery and Its Challenges in Nigeria: Case study of eight states

Hosaena Ghebru¹, Austen Okumo²

1: International Food Policy Research Institute, United States of America; 2: Hohenheim University, Germany

Lessons from Investing in Land-based Commons by the French Technical Committee on Land Tenure and Development (CTFD)

Sigrid Aubert¹, Mathieu Boche²

1: CIRAD, France; 2: French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, France

The Commons in the Tonle Sap Flood Plain: Insights from community fisheries management

Jean-Christophe Diepart¹, Il Oeur², Marie Mellac³

1: Mekong Region Land Governance; 2: Analyzing Development Issues Centre; 3: French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) - UMR Passage

Uneasy Relationship between Co-management (involving state agents) and Commons Management

Sigrid Aubert

CIRAD, France

Benefits Derived from Official Recognition of the Commons by the State and Central Authorities

Saïd Mahamoudou¹, El Haj Faye², Dauod Abkula³

1: Comores; 2: Senegal; 3: Kenya

Introduction

Anne Larson

CIFOR

Key Lessons from CIFORs Global Comparative Study on Tenure Reform Implementation

Esther Mwangi, Tuti Herawati

Center for International Forestry Research, Kenya

Case Study Colombia

Andrea Olaya

Land Titling Office, Colombia

Case Study Indonesia

Hadi Daryanto

Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Indonesia

Case Study Kenya

Emilio Mugo

Kenya Forest Service, Kenya

Case Study Nepal

Krishna Prasad Acharya

Ministry of Forest and Soil Conservation, Nepal, Nepal

Case Study Peru

Ronald Elwar Salazar Chavez

Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation, Peru

Case Study Uganda

Mary Goretti Kitutu Kimono, Bob Kazungu

Ministry of Water and Environment, Uganda

Discussant

Gerardo Segura Warnholtz

The World Bank Group, United States of America

Closing Remarks

Andy White

Rights and Resources Initiative, United States of America

Tools for Improving Land Tenure Project Outcomes with Through Mobile Access to Land Management Information with the Global Land-Potential Knowledge System (LandPKS)

Jeffrey Herrick¹, Ioana Bouvier², Jason Karl¹, Brian King², Jason Neff³

1: USDA-ARS, United States of America; 2: USAID, United States of America; 3: University of Colorado @ Boulder, United States of America

Utilizing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the agricultural sector

Sungyeop Kim

LX Korea Land and Geospatial Informatix Corporation, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

A Space-time Analysis Approach to Tackle Some Emerging Environmental Issues

Soe Myint, Chuyuan Wang, Asif Ishtiaque

Arizona State University, United States of America

A Cost-Effective Approach to Meeting Data Needs for Multi-Purpose Land Governance in Africa

Marc Levy, Markus Walsh

Earth Institute, Columbia University, United States of America

Comparative Analysis of National-Level Residential Planning Parameter Guidelines For Five Sub-Saharan African Countries

Chyi-Yun Huang

World Bank, United States of America

Addressing New Land Governance Challenges: Governance Schemes For Urban Regeneration Project In Latin America

Vanessa Velasco, Juan Felipe Pinilla, Maria Juliana Rojas

World Bank, Colombia

Automated Landuse Clearance For Effective Development Control Mechanism: The Case Of Megacity Dhaka

Kamrul Sohag, Md Ashraful Islam

RAJUK (Capital City Development Authority of Bangladesh), Bangladesh, People's Republic of

Transparency and effectiveness in Municipal Land Use

Marianna Posfai

NIRAS Finland OY

The Role of Legal Professions in Addressing Gender Equality in Land Ownership, Cases from the Office a Public Notary in Albania

Adela Llatja¹, Elona Saliaj²

1: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Albania; 2: Public Notary

Gender Equality and Women's Rights: The Essential Role of the Notaire in Implementing and Diffusing the De Jure Law

Edith Vezina^1,2

1: International Union of Notaries; 2: Sherbrooke University

Land and Gender in the Western Balkans: Understanding Customs and People’s Lives to Achieve the SDGs

Margret Vidar¹, Adela Llatja², Rumyana Tonchovska¹, Christopher Will²

1: FAO, Italy; 2: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Germany

Women’s Rights To Land And Property In Kenya

Pauline Musangi

Hakijamii, Kenya

Does Strengthening Local Tenure Rights Help Fulfill Conservation Goals?

Brian Robinson¹, Yuta Masuda³, Allison Kelly², Margaret Holland⁴

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

Rwanda Natural Capital Accounting for Land

Nishimwe Marie Grace¹, Biraro Sam¹, Milindi Rugema Didier¹, Nsabimana Eric¹, Uwera Claudine², Craveland Cor³, Stage Jasper⁴, Munyawera Swaib⁵, Tuyishimwe NGONDO Modeste⁶, Ngabirame Gabriel⁵

1: Rwanda Natural Resources Authority, Rwanda; 2: University of Rwanda; 3: Statistics Netherlands, Department of National Accounts, Environmental Accounts team; 4: Department of Business Administration, Technology and Social Sciences; 5: Natural Capital Accounting, Rwanda Natural Resources Authority; 6: Ministry in Charge of Natural Resources

Securing land rights for equity, sustainability and resilience for cashew growers in Khong district of Champasack province

Vinoth Vansy

Sustainable Natural Resource Management and Productivity Enhancement Project, Lao People's Democratic Republic

The potential for homestead microplots to contribute to food security in rural West Bengal

Niketa Kulkarni, Shih-Ting Huang, Elizabeth Louis, Diana Fletschner

Landesa, United States of America

Establishing a Legal Cadastre for Good Governance in Ethiopia: Identifying Bottlenecks and Steps Toward Scale-Up

Tony Burns¹, Kate Fairlie¹, Yan Zhang², Gavin Adlington³, Imeru Tamrat³, Gebeyehu Belay Shibeshi³, Andrew McDowell³, Solomon Kebede⁴, Abebe Zelul⁴

1: Land Equity International, Australia; 2: World Bank; 3: Consultant; 4: Ministry of Urban Development and Housing, Ethiopia

A Fit For Purpose Land Cadaster in Mozambique

Marisa Balas¹, Joao Carrilho², Simão Joaquim², Christiaan Lemmen³, Jose Murta¹, Lazaro Matlava², Marques Mario Ruy⁴

1: EXI LDA, Mozambique; 2: DINAT - National Directorate of Lands; 3: Dutch Kadaster; 4: Verde Azul/ DINAT

Fit-For-Purpose land Administration - Developing Country Specific Strategies for Implementation

Stig Enemark¹, Robin McLaren²

1: Aalborg University, Denmark; 2: Know Edge Ltd, United Kingdom

Implementation Of National Land Administration System - Fit-For-Purpose IT-Leap Approach

Igor Popiv, Carol Roffer, Sergiy Lizenko, Maksym Kalyta

Innola Solutions, Inc., US

Fit-for-Purpose and Fit-for-Future Technology for Cadastral Systems

Brent Jones¹, Christiaan Lemmen², Mathilde Molendijk², Ken Gorton¹

1: Esri, United States of America; 2: Kadaster International, Netherlands

Delivering Land Administration Services at Scale The Experience of Development and Implementation of a Nationwide Agricultural Land Management Information System Case Study of Directorate for Agricultural Land, Republic of Serbia

Svetlana Bačanin, Katja Grbic

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH, Serbia

From Cloth Bags to Land Record Service Centers – Experiences from a Project In Punjab, Pakistan

Linus Pott

World Bank, United States of America

How a Global-to-Local Technology Partner Approach in Nigeria Contributed to Sustained results for State-level Land Administration Projects

Gasant Jacobs¹, Chiemeka Ngwu²

1: Thomson Reuters, South Africa; 2: Teqbridge Limited

The Role Of Electronic Cadastre In Development Of The Buissnes Community - The Case Of Republic Of Macedonia

Darko Crvenkovski

Agency for real estate cadastre, Macedonia, Former Yugoslav Republic of

Further standardisation in Land Administration

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

1: Kadaster, Netherlands, The; 2: Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, The; 3: The University of Melbourne, Australia; 4: UN 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

Improvement Of Community Tenure Security Through Access To Land Data: Evidences From GLTN Tools Application In Uganda And Kenya

Oumar Sylla¹, Danilo Antonio¹, Qhobela Cyprian Selebalo¹, Hellen-Nyamweru Ndungu¹, David J Stanfield², John Gitua¹

1: UN-Habitat, Kenya; 2: University of Wisconsin-Madison

Establishing An Intra-Oganizational Fit For Purpose Land Rights Policy. Comparison Of Successes, Lessons Learned And Best Practices Across Projects.

David Betge, Roland Zuidema, Jean Pierrre Irutingabo, Hendrik Westerbeek, Christin Weigt

ZOA, Netherlands, The

Updating Land Records, Resolving Land Problems and Securing Clear Land Titles through the Community-driven Process Involving Local Youth

Sunil Kumar Meka, Lokesh Shravandanahalli Bijavarappa

Landesa, India

District Multi-stakeholder Forums: Unexhausted Opportunity For Securing Land Rights, Tanzania Experience

Masalu Luhula

Tanzania Natural Resource Forum, Tanzania

Land rental markets participation and its impact on fixed investment and household Welfare: Evidence from China Apple Production Sites

Jianyun Hou^1,2, Jundi Liu¹, Xuexi Huo¹, Runsheng Yin²

1: Northwest Agriculture & Forestry University, People's Republic of China; 2: Michigan State University,United States of American

How do land rental markets affect household income? Evidence from Rural Jiangsu, P.R. China

Lan Zhang², Shuyi Feng², Nico Heerink^1,2, Futian Qu², Arie Kuyvenhoven^1,2

1: Wageningen University, Netherlands, The; 2: Nanjing Agricultural University, P.R. China

Inheritance System, Tenure Security And The Functioning Of Land Rental Markets in Rural Pakistan

A. Edwige Tia¹, B. James Deaton¹, Getu Hailu¹, Hina Nazli²

1: University of Guelph, Canada; 2: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Effects of Land Rights Certification on Rural Credit Market and the Market for Land Transfers ---- Evidence from China

Longyao Zhang¹, Wenli Cheng², Bi Wu³

1: Nanjing Agricultural University, China; 2: Monash University, Australia; 3: Research Center for Rural Economy, Ministry of Agriculture, China

Participative Cartography in Benin

Felix Braeckman¹, Hervé Dossoumou², Egy Sossou², Anouk Lodder¹

1: VNG International The Netherlands; 2: VNG International Benin

Registration and Release of Customary-land for Private Enterprise: Lessons from Papua New Guinea

Satish Chand

University of New South Wales, Australia

Supporting Greater Tenure Security For Community And Customary Land Rights – Lessons Learned From The Field And How Community Led Participatory Mapping Empowers Small Holder Farmers In Myanmar.

Nicholas Thomas, Thiengi May Soe, Myat Thu Aung

Tetra Tech, United States of America

Norwegian Support To The Land Sector In Kyrgyzstan

Elena Busch¹, Helge Onsrud¹, Bakytbek Djusupbekov²

1: Statens kartverk - Norwegian Mapping Authority, Norway; 2: Department of Cadastre and Registration, Kyrgyzstan

Land for Food or Power? The Interface between Hydropower Production and Family Farming in Southwest Ethiopia

Getachew Legese¹, Till Stellmacher¹, Hailemariam Teklewold Belayneh², Kristof Van Assche³, Girma Kelboro¹

1: Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Germany; 2: Environmental and Climate Research Center for Ethiopia; 3: University of Alberta

Using Participative G.I.S. For Infrastructure Corridor Planning Around Mining Projects: A Case Study From Indonesia

Saleem Ali

University of Delaware, United States of America

Growing Demand, Shrinking Supply of Industrial Lands in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Can Improving Urban Land Administration and Governance be a Solution?

Berihu Assefa Gebrehiwot¹, Alebel B. Weldeselasie²

1: Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EDRI), Ethiopia; 2: Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EDRI), Ethiopia

How Land Issues Will be Addressed in AUC’s 4-year Business Plan

Godfrey Bahiigwa

African Union Commission, Ethiopia

NEPAD’s Contribution to Implementing Evidence-driven Land Policy at Country Level

Estherine Lisinge Fotabong

NEPAD Planning and Coordinating Agency, South Africa

Harnessing the Potential of Land Policy for Madagascar's Development

Narson Rafidimanana

Ministry of State for Presidential Projects, Country Planning and Equipment, Madagascar

Using Land Policy as an Engine for Rural Growth: Opportunities and Challenges for Implementing Malawi's Land Acts

Charles Msosa

Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Malawi

AFDB's contribution to addressing land issues in support of agricultural development

Issa Faye, Chiji Ojukwu, Rose Mwebaza

African Development Bank

Parcel boundary adjustment of old cadastral maps with UAV images for efficient cadastral resurveying project in Rep. of Korea

Yong Huh

LX Korea Land and Geospatial Informatix Corporation, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

Mass Registration of Land Parcels Using Fit-for-Purpose Land Administration: Procedures and Methods

Tarek Zein

Hansa Luftbild AG, Germany

Low Cost, Post Conflict Cadastre with Modern Technology

Brent Jones¹, Christiaan Lemmen², Mathilde Molendijk²

1: Esri, United States of America; 2: Kadaster International, Netherlands

The e migration

Mariamu Ali El-Maawy

Ministry of Lands and Physical Planning Kenya, Kenya

Legal Empowerment in Agribusiness Investments

Lorenzo Cotula, Thierry Berger

IIED, United Kingdom

Land and Landscape Governance in Responsible Agri-supply chains in Africa

Julian Quan, Valerie Nelson

Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich, United Kingdom

Ensuring Sustainable Agriculture Investment Through A Regional Model Contract

Carin Smaller, Mohamed Coulibaly, William Speller, Francine Picard

IISD, Switzerland

Palm Oil Financial Risks and Mitigation Tools

Gabriel Thoumi. CFA. FRM

Climate Advisers, United States of America

Delivering Transformation: The Status and Prospects of Emerging Tools to Leverage Commodity Supply Chains to Support Community Land Tenure

Donald Bryson Ogden, Andy White

Rights and Resources Initiative, United States of America

Towards a culture of good governance: Implementing the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure

Marcela Villarreal

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Italy

The Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure (VG): Core attributes of Successful Implementation by Countries

Tea Dabrundashvili

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Italy

UN-REDD’s Progress in Supporting Partner Countries to Address Land Tenure

Amanda Bradley

United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, Italy

FAO Moving into a New Phase of VGGT Implementation

Andrew Hilton

FAO, Italy

The Policy Response to Women’s Entitlement to Land: Implementation Gradualism in the Limits of Social Norms

Govind Kelkar, Shipra Deo

Landesa, India, India

Gender Equality - Goal or Tool?

Kent Johan Ronny Nilsson¹, Maria Lodin²

1: Lantmäteriet, Sweden (The Swedish Mapping, Cadastral and Land Registration Authority); 2: Kartverket, Norway (The Norwegian Mapping Authority)

Political Economy of Land Governance and Women’s Empowerment – The Case of Meghalaya

Sanjukta Roy

The World Bank, India

Claiming And Realizing Right To Land: Can Development Organizations Address The Gender Disparities In Bangladesh?

Ferdous Jahan¹, Sharif Wahab²

1: University of Dhaka, Bangladesh; 2: Ohio University, USA

Can We Talk About Smart Cities Without a Proper Land Management System In Place?

Miguel Mendoza

Thomson Reuters.

Spatial Information for Developed and Developing Smart Cities

George Percivall, Trevor Taylor, Denise McKenzie

The Open Geospatial Consortium

A New Spatial Indicator To Identify Ghettos

Emilio Matuk¹, Luis Triveno²

1: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú; 2: World Bank

A Land Evidence Framework

Jennifer Lisher, Derick Bowen, Joshua Alfonso

Millennium Challenge Corporation, United States of America

Investigating the Causal Channels for Increasing Land Tenure Security: An Organisation-Specific Systematic Review

Daniel Higgins

IFAD, Italy

Contextual Factors, Property Regimes, and Environmental Outcomes: Applying a Realist Synthesis Approach to a Systematic Review of Marine Protected Areas

Rebecca McLain¹, Steven Lawry², Maria Ojanen³

1: Portland State University, United States of America; 2: CIFOR, Indonesia; 3: CIFOR, Finland

Using innovative research methodologies to uncover nuance and diversity: The results of household diaries in Odisha, India

Elizabeth Louis, Niketa Kulkarni, Diana Fletschner

Landesa, United States of America

Land and Property Rights Guaranteed and Protected

Nicola Heathcote

HM Land Registry, England and Wales, United Kingdom

Overselling the Mirror and Curtain Principles of Land Titling

Jacob Zevenbergen

University of Twente, Netherlands, The

Reliable Data For Inclusive Land Administration Systems

Paulus Saers, Mathilde Molendijk, Co Meijer

Kadaster, Netherlands, The

Land Registry, Mortgage Markets and Consumer Protection

Nicolás Nogueroles

IPRA-CINDER (International Property Registries Association), Spain

Development and Employment of a LADM Implementing Toolkit in Colombia

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

1: BSF Swissphoto AG, Switzerland; 2: Cadastre Subdirectorate, Instituto Geográfico Agustín Codazzi, Colombia; 3: Office 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

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

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

Rubber Boom and Land Use Dynamics in Southwest China: Driving Force and Its Impact on Carbon Balances

Shi Min¹, Georg Cadisch², Jikun Huang³, Hermann Waibel¹

1: Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany; 2: University of Hohenheim, Germany; 3: Peking University, China

Gender Norms and Gendered Impacts of the Oil Palm 'Land Rush' in Indonesia

Bimbika Sijapati Basnett¹, Rebecca Elmhirst², Mia Siscawati³, Dian Ekowati¹

1: Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Indonesia; 2: University of Brighton, UK; 3: University of Indonesia, UK

The Impact Of Large-Scale Land Development Deals That Remain Unimplemented

Rikke Brandt Broegaard¹, Thoumthone Vongvisouk^1,2, Ole Mertz¹

1: Dept of Geoscience, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; 2: Faculty of Forestry, National University of Laos, Laos

Where Effective Governance is Absent, Ineffective Governance Becomes the Obvious: Interrogating Large Land Acquisition Processes and its Impacts on Investment Projects in South West Cameroon. The Case of Herakles Farms.

Frankline Anum Ndi

University of Melbourne, Australia

Competitiveness of land rental market and productivity growth in Ukrainian agriculture

Oleg Nivievskyi

Kyiv Economic Institute/ Kyiv School of Economics, Ukraine

Leasehold Rights As A Vehicle For Economic Development: The Case of Small Scale Farmers In The Oshikoto Region

Charl-Thom Hilgardt Bayer, Wolfgang Werner

Namibia University of Science and Technology, Namibia

Freedom to Farm: Agricultural Land Use, Crop Selection, Fallowing, and Proposed Changes to the Myanmar Farmland Law Necessary to Strengthen Land Tenure Security

Mark West, Christine Anderson

Landesa, United States of America

Land Fragmentation and Land Services Delivery Ratios on Mailo Tenure in Uganda: Evidence from LIS Data

Herbert Kamusiime, Eddie Nsamba-Gayiiya, Christine Kajumba, Lawrence Lubyayi

Associates Research Uganda

The intricacies of large scale agricultural investment in Gambella Region, Ethiopia

Azeb Degife

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany

Understanding the Implication of Macroeconomic Growth on Smallholder Farmer, Landless, Landpoor and Women's livelihood and Land Rights in Lower Mekong Basin Region

Kaneka Keo¹, Daniel Lindgren²

1: Oxfam America, Cambodia; 2: Rapid Asia Co.,Ltd

Large-Scale Land Acquisitions in Kenya: Large-Scale Land Acquisitions in Kenya: The Yala Swamp Case Study of Kenya’s Land Governance System and Actual Practices

Odenda Lumumba

KENYA LAND ALLIANCE, Kenya

Smallholders and large –scale land acquisition in west Africa: the case of the management committees of customary land in Benin

Avohoueme Midjeou Beranger

LADYD, University of Abomey-Calavi, Republic of Benin

A Century of Unsuccessful Attempts at Value Capture? An Analysis of the UK’s Track Record

Richard Grover

Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom

Transformation Of Land To Land Lot, Value Gain, Land Speculation, And Opportunities For Sharing Value Increment: An Evaluation Of The Turkey Example

Gizem Var¹, Yesi̇m Ali̇efendi̇oglu², Sibel Canaz Sevgen³, Harun Tanrıvermis⁴

1: ankara unıversıty, department of real estate development and mangement, Turkey; 2: ankara unıversıty, department of real estate development and mangement, Turkey; 3: ankara unıversıty, department of real estate development and mangement, Turkey; 4: ankara unıversıty, department of real estate development and mangement, Turkey

Capturing Land Value after the Collapse of the Oil Economy to Finance Luanda's New Urbanisation

Allan Cain

Development Workshop, Angola

Does Ethical And Participative Land Based Financing Support Better Land Governance

M. Siraj Sait¹, Jean Du Plessis², Nuha Eltinay³, David Mitchell⁴

1: University of East london, United Kingdom; 2: UN-Habitat; 3: Arab Urban Development Institute; 4: Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

New Opportunities to Access High Resolution Imagery for Affordable Cadastral Mapping

Kumar Navulur

DigitalGlobe, United States of America

How the Microsatellite Revolution can Help Developing Countries Achieve the SDGs

Andrew Zolli

Planet, Inc., United States of America

Supporting the EO r/evolution at scale - shifting the focus from data to services

Christoph Aubrecht^1,2

1: European Space Agency (ESA-ESRIN), Italy; 2: The World Bank, United States of America

How the Bank can help its clients to better access and use spatial data

Keith Patrick Garrett

The World Bank, United States of America

What is Google Earth Engine?

Nicholas Clinton

Google, United States of America

Promoting Smart Land and Water Use for Climate Smart Sugarcane: Focus on Smallholder Behaviour Change with a Robust Business Case

Harsh Vivek, Suparna Jain, Rajpal Singh, Richard Colback, Charles Lor, Ernest Bethe

International Finance Corporation

Smallholder Agri-supply Chains

Ernest Bethe

International Finance Corporation, Indonesia

Partnership Management in Agribusiness Supplychains

Harsh Vivek

International Finance Corporation, India

Good Practices for Agri-Water and Irrigation/Water Management

Richard Colback

international Finance corporation, United States of America

Agronomic Practices for Smart Land Use

Rajpal Singh

International Finance Corporation, India

Smallholder Supply-chain Development and Sustainable Resource Use: a Private Sector Perspective

Chris Brown

Olam, United Kingdom

How Land Administration Increases Tax Revenue and Supports Job creation

Moses Kibirige

World Bank, Uganda

Discussant

Richard Oput

Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Uganda

Concluding Remarks

Betty Ongom Amongi

Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Uganda

Lessons from WDR 2017 on Producing Better Governance Outcomes: Commitment, Coordination and Cooperation

Edouard Al-Dahdah

World Bank, United States of America

Improving Land Administration for Good Governance: What Uganda can do to Achieve Complete Coverage

Betty Amongi

Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, -

Land as a Key for Better Governance and Economic Growth in Tanzania: Perspective and Recent Initiatives

Yamungu Kayandabila

Ministry of Lands, Housing and Human Settlements Development, Tanzania

Leveraging Land Governance for Sustainable Urbanization: Improving the Quality of Land Administration

Mohamed Aly Bathily

Ministère des Domaines de l'Etat et des Affaires Foncières au Mali, Mali

Implementing Land and Cadaster Reforms in Colombia

Manuel Fernando Castro Quiroz

National Planning Department (DNP), Colombia

Blockchain-Based Land Administration, feasible, illusory or a panacea?

Jacob Vos, Christiaan Lemmen, Bert Beentjes

Dutch Cadastre, Land Registry and Mapping Agency (Kadaster), Netherlands, The

Blockchain and Land Register - A New "Trust Machine"?

Mats Snäll

Lantmäteriet, the Swedish Mapping, Cadaster and Land Registration Authority, Sweden

Setting Up a Real-estate Pilot

Henrik Hjelte

ChromaWay, Sweden

Blockchain – Can This New Technology Really Revolutionize The Land Registry System?

Maurice Barbieri², Jean-Yves Pirlot², Dominik Gassen^1,4, Hanns-Jakob Pützer³, Raul Radoi⁴, Nicola Maria Hoischen¹, Florian Lebourdais⁵

1: Federal Chamber of German Civil Law Notaries (BNotK); 2: The Council of European Geodetic Surveyors (CLGE); 3: International Notarial Cooperation Commission (CCNI)/ (UINL); 4: Council of the Notariats of the European Union (CNUE); 5: Ordre de Géomètres-Experts (OGE)

Blockchain’s Struggle to Deliver Impersonal Exchange

Benito Arrunada

Pompeu Fabra University, Spain

Using Blockchain in Georgia

Papuna Ugrekhelidze, Elene Grigolia

National Agency of Public Registry, Georgia

Comparative Evaluation of Type-Dependent UAV Performance in High-Precision National Territorial Surveying and Spatial Information Acquisition

Jaekang Lee

LX Korea Land and Geospatial Informatix Corporation, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

Could We Cadaster Faster in an Integrated IT System by using UAVs with GIS Services in a Cloud Infrastructure?

Mihnea Mihailescu

Teamnet Group, Romania

Case Study On Using New Technology For The Cadastral Systematic Registration In The Republic Of Kosovo

Murat Meha, Korab Ahmetaj, Esat Xani

Kosovo Cadastral Agency, Kosovo

How the World Bank can help clients to harness the potential of drones

Joseph Muhlhausen

World Bank, United States of America

Articulating a Rights-Based Argument for Land Contract Transparency

Jesse Coleman, Kaitlin Cordes

Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, United States of America

Systematic and Rapid Assessment of Concessions Using GIS and Remote Sensing: The case of Economic Land Concessions in Cambodia

Tim Fella¹, Sepul Barua², Lauri Tamminen², Jeffrey Hatcher², Daphne Yin², Naomi Basik Treanor³

1: ESRI, United States; 2: Indufor North America, United States; 3: Forest Trends, United States

The Land Matrix initiative – from a global data base to a network of decentralised and thematic land observatories

Christof Althoff¹, Ward Anseeuw^2,5, Wytse Chamberlain³, Markus Giger⁴, Jann Lay¹, Peter Messerli⁴, Saliou Niassy³, Kerstin Nolte¹, Lucas Seghezzo⁶

1: GIGA, Germany; 2: CIRAD, France; 3: University of Pretoria, South Africa; 4: CDE, Switzerland; 5: International Land Coalition, Italy; 6: Investigador Independiente del CONICET

Land Concession Data Transparency: A Survey of Fourteen Forested Countries

Jessica Webb¹, Rachael Petersen¹, Carole Excell¹, Elizabeth Moses¹, Mikaela Weisse¹, Liz Cole¹, Sam Szoke-Burke²

1: World Resources Institute, United States of America; 2: Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, United States of America

Securing the Land Rights of Poor and Women through Provision of Legal Services to Address Their Land Problems

Somdatta Mandal, Naveen Kumar

Landesa/ Rural Development Institute, India

Securing land rights for widows living with and affected by HIV using customary justice structures

Gina Alvarado Merino¹, Allan Maleche²

1: International Center for Research on Women, United States of America; 2: Kenya Ethical and Legal Issues Network on HIV and AIDS

Namibia: Good Practices and Lessons Learned for Gender and Communal Land

Hirut Girma

Landesa, United States of America

Women’s Knowledge and Perception towards their Land and Property Rights Across Bombali, Portloko And Tonkolili Districts In Northern Region, Sierra Leone.

Joseph Saffa, Mohamed Sorie Conteh, Lansana Hassan Sowa

Sierra Leone Network on the Right to Food (SiLNoRF), Sierra Leone

Climate Benefits, Tenure Costs: The Economic Case for Securing Indigenous Land Rights in the Amazon

Helen Ding¹, Peter Veit¹, Allen Blackman², Erin Gray¹, Katie Reytar¹, Juan Carlos Altamirano¹, Benjamin Hodgdon³

1: World Resources Institute, United States of America; 2: Resources for the Future, United States of America; 3: Rainforest Alliance, United States of America

Formalization of land and water rights combinations to deal with the consequences of climate change in the rural & urban areas in China

Meine Pieter van Dijk

Erasmus university Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Netherlands, The

Securing Land Rights at Scale Through Participatory Role-play: the Forest Investment Program in Burkina Faso

Peter Hochet¹, Boukary Sawadogo², Jean-Michel Bretel², Ibrahim Lankoande², Loïc Braune³, Paul Gardner de Béville³

1: INSUCO, Burkina Faso; 2: Ministry of Environment, Green Economy and Climate Change, Burkina Faso; 3: The World Bank

From Megacities to Historic Towns: Leveraging Satellite Imagery and Spatial Analysis to Inform Urban Planning

Jon Kher Kaw, Peter Ellis, Mark Roberts

The World Bank Group

A New Plan for African Cities: The Ethiopia Urban Expansion Initiative

Patrick Lamson-Hall, David DeGroot, Richard Martin, Shlomo Angel

New York University Marron Institute of Urban Management, New York, USA

Calibrating Housing Programs with Geo-Spatial Census Data

Luis Triveno¹, Emilio Matuk²

1: World Bank, United States of America; 2: Pontificia Universidad Catolica, Peru

Spatio-Temporal Analysis Of Quezon City Informal Settlements:Towards An Informal Settlements Growth Model

Wilmina R. Lara^1,2, Jun T. Castro², David Leonides T Yap²

1: Geodata Systems Technologies, Inc., Philippines; 2: School of Urban and Regional Planning, Philippines

The Critical Elements Of Sustainable Property Tax Implementation And Reform”

David Laurence Magor

Institute of Revenues Rating and Valuation, United Kingdom

Workable Solutions for Property Tax Reform

Richard Almy¹, Margie Cusack²

1: Almy, Gloudemans, Jacobs & Denne, United States of America; 2: International Association of Assessing Officers

Success Factors for a System for Property Taxation and the Consequent Risks

Benjamin Bervoets, Marco Kuijper, Ruud M. Kathmann

Netherland Council for Real Estate Assessment, Netherlands, The

Improving Land Valuation Models in Sparse Markets: A Comparison of Spatial Interpolation Techniques Used in Mass Appraisal

Paul Bidanset¹, William McCluskey², Peadar Davis¹, Michael McCord¹

1: Ulster University, Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland; 2: African Tax Institute, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

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

Farai Mutondoro¹, Manase Manase², Nicky Rehbock³

1: Transparency International Zimbabwe; 2: Chinhoyi University; 3: Corruption 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

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

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

Baseline Findings And Evaluation Challenges For An Irrigation and Land Tenure Security Initiative in the Senegal River Valley

Aravind Moorthy, Thomas Coen, Katie Naeve, Jeremy Brecher-Haimson, Sarah Hughes

Mathematica Policy Research, United States of America

Outcomes of land and forest tenure reform implementation in Indonesia

Mani Banjade, Tuti Herawati, Nining Liswanti, Esther Mwangi

Center for International Forestry Researcy, Indonesia

Methods for Determining Land Formalization Cost-effectiveness: The Per-parcel Cost and Quality of USAID’s MAST Pilot in Tanzania

Lauren Persha¹, Benjamin Linkow¹, Sebastian Monroy-Taborda¹, Gwynne Zodrow²

1: NORC at the University of Chicago, United States of America; 2: Management Systems International

Land Markets, Property Rights, and Deforestation in Sumatra, Indonesia (1992-2015)

Vijesh Krishna¹, Christoph Kubitza¹, Unai Pascual², Matin Qaim¹

1: Georg-August University of Göttingen, Germany; 2: Basque Center for Climate Change, Spain

Options for Legislative and Institutional Reform of Land Consolidation in Serbia: Choosing the Right Approach and Building Regional Expert Networks

Michael Becker

GIZ - Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit, Serbia

Property Rights and Private Investment: Evidence from a Planned Settlement in Rural Tanzania

Francis Makamu, Harounan Kazianga

Oklahoma State University, United States of America

New trends in development of Land Consolidation in Russia

Alexander Sagaydak, Anna Sagaydak

State University of Land Use Planning, Russian Federation

The Turkish Experience in Consolidation of Irrigated Land: Productivity and Efficiency Implications

Suha Satana¹, Ali Riza Ceylan², Atakan Sert²

1: Independent Consultant, Turkey; 2: State Hydraulic Works, Ministry of Forestry and Water Affairs, Turkey

Natural and Social Capital Valuation: Piloting a Bottom-Up Approach to Valuing the Commons and Paving the Way for Computer Assisted Mass Appraisal

Daphne Yin¹, Yijia Chen¹, Jeffrey Hatcher¹, Santosh Bhandari², Pete Watt², Pratiti Priyadarshini³, Rahul Chaturvedi³, Jagdeesh Rao³, Peadar Davis⁴, Paul Bidanset⁴

1: Indufor North America, United States of America; 2: Indufor Asia Pacific, New Zealand; 3: Foundation for Ecological Security, India; 4: Ulster University, United Kingdom

Detemining Minimum Compensation for Lost Farmland: A Theory- Based Impact Evalution of a Bio-Ethanol Multinational Company in Sierra Leone

Joseph Saffa, Mohamed Sorie Conteh, Lansana Hassan Sowa

Sierra Leone Network on the Right to Food (SiLNoRF), Sierra Leone

Guarding Against Land-expropriation-related Mass Incidents (LERMIs): Practical Evidence From China's Local Governments

Siliang Wang¹, Shukui Tan¹, Lu Zhang¹, Conghui Cheng²

1: Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, People's Republic of; 2: Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, People's Republic of

Do rehabilitation institutions from land acquisition fit with farmers’ preferences? Results from a contingent ranking experiment in India

Vikram Patil¹, Ranjan Ghosh², Vinish Kathuria³

1: Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, India; 2: Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala, Sweden; 3: SJM School of Management of Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India

Toolkit for the Gender-Sensitive Implementation and Monitoring of the Tenure Guidelines (VGGTs) and the African Union's Framework and Guidelines for Land Policy: Preliminary Scorecard Results from Several Countries.

Catherine Gatundu¹, Jenny Springer³, Douglas Hertzler²

1: ActionAid International, Kenya; 2: ActionAid USA, United States of America; 3: Equator Group

Building Evidence on Rural Women Struggles for Land Rights in Tanzania: The Quest for Knowledge, Recognition and Participation in Decision Making Processes

Godfrey Eliseus Massay

Tanzania Natural Resource Forum, Tanzania

Promoting women land rights in Vietnam

Gina Alvarado Merino

International Center for Research on Women, United States of America

How Can Informal Settlement Communities Leverage Global Networks? The Case Of Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Jaehyeon Park

University of California, Los Angeles

The global land rush 10 years on: Taking stock of commercial pressures on land

Lorenzo Cotula, Thierry Berger

IIED, United Kingdom

International Land Deals for Agriculture. Fresh insights from the Land Matrix: Analytical Report II

Kerstin Nolte¹, Wytske Chamberlain², Markus Giger³

1: GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Germany; 2: University of Pretoria; 3: University of Bern

Sustainable livelihoods in the global land rush? Archetypes of livelihood vulnerability and sustainability potentials

Christoph Oberlack, Laura Tejada, Peter Messerli, Stephan Rist, Markus Giger

University of Bern, Switzerland

Implementation of the CAR in the Amazon and Cerrado: Lessons learned and ways ahead

Gabriela Berbigier Gonçalves Guimarães Grisolia

Ministry of Environment, Brazil

Protection And Sustainable Use Of Tropical Forests Need Land Tenure Regularization - Evidence From Brazil

Bettina Kupper¹, José Dumont Teixeira², Ana Paula Ferreira de Carvalho², Robson Disarz², Otávio Moreira do Carmo Júnior³, Marcelo C. C. Stabile⁴, Tiago N. P. Reis⁴, Rogerio Cabral¹, Pedro Iglesias B. Seibel¹, Lucia Cristina Gama de Andrade², Thamiris Alves de Almeida¹

1: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Brazil; 2: Superintendencia Nacional de Regularicacao Fundiaria da Amazonia - SRFA; 3: Secretaria Extraordinária da Regularização Fundiária da Amazônia Legal - Serfal; 4: Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia – IPAM

Using the CAR for accessing credit: The ABC experience

Edson Junqueira Leite

Ministry of Agriculture, Brazil

Policy Findings from Evaluating Landholders' Responses to CAR in Pará

Jessica L'Roe¹, Lisa Rausch², Jacob Munger², Holly Gibbs²

1: Middlebury College, United States of America; 2: University of Wisconsin, Madison, United States of America

Deforestation on the Rise Again: the Role of the Private Sector Toward Zero Deforestation

Paulo Barreto

Amazon Institute of People and the Environment - IMAZON, Brazil

Discussant

Werner Kornexl

World Bank, United States of America

Introduction

Sumila Gulyani

World Bank, United States of America

The Atlas of Urban Expansion--2016 Edition: Methodology and Key Results

Shlomo Angel, Alejandro Blei, Patrick Lamson-Hall, Nicolas Galarza Sanchez

New York University, United States of America

Characterizing Urban Change Using New Global Data: An Exploratory Analysis

Chandan Deuskar, Eugenie Birch

University of Pennsylvania

The Policy Implications Of Varying Techniques To Identify Urban Growth Patterns From Satellite Imagery: The Example Of Informal Construction In Ho Chi Minh City, 1994-2001

Arthur Acolin, Annette Kim

University of Southern California, United States of America

Urbanization and Development: Is Latin America and the Caribbean Different from the Rest of the World?

Mark Roberts¹, Brian Blankespoor¹, Chandan Deuskar², Benjamin Stewart¹

1: World Bank, United States of America; 2: University of Pennsylvania

Large Scale Land Acquisitions for Investment in Kenya: Is the participation, and benefits of affected local communities meaningful, and equitable? A case study of the situation in Lamu, Isiolo and Siaya Counties.

Robert Kibugi¹, Mwenda Makathimo³, Ibrahim Mwathane²

1: University of Nairobi, Kenya; 2: Land Development and Governance Institute; 3: Land Development and Governance Institute

Combating poverty. Cluster farming initiatives in Nigeria

Andrew Smith¹, His Excellency Ibrahi Hadejia Dep Gov Jigawa State²

1: Adam Smith International, Nigeria; 2: Government of Jigawa State

Land status of agricultural concessions in Kinshasa (D. R. Congo): Legal framework limitations to Production Incentive.

Masiala Bode Mabu¹, Lebailly Philippe¹, Kinkela Savy Sunda Charles², Aloni Mukoko Yves³

1: Economics and Rural Development Unit , University of Liege, Belgium; 2: Agricultural Economics Department, University of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo; 3: Faculty of Law, Unversity of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

A Comparative Analysis of National Laws Recognizing Women’s Rights To Community Forests in the Developing World

Stephanie Keene, Chloe Ginsburg

Rights and Resources Initiative, United States of America

Changing Form and Content of Women’s Land Rights under Customary Tenure: Is Registration or Titling an Opportunity?

Herbert Kamusiime¹, Eddie Nsamba-Gayiiya², Christine Kajumba¹

1: Associates Research Uganda; 2: Consultant Surveyors and Planners, Uganda

Gender and Collectively Held Land: Good Practices and Lessons Learned from Six Global Case Studies

Renee Giovarelli^1,2, Amanda Richardson^1,2, Elisa Scalise^1,2

1: Resource Equity, United States of America; 2: Landesa, United States of America

Collective Land Tenure in Colombia: Current State and Prospective Challenges

Marco Alberto Velásquez Ruiz

Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia

Assessing the Impact of Second-Level Land Certification in Ethiopia

Lauren Persha¹, Adi Greif², Heather Huntington³, Sarah Lowery⁴

1: NORC; 2: Stanford Research Institute; 3: Cloudburst Consulting Group, United States of America; 4: USAID, United States of America

Formalizing Rural Land Rights: Long-Run Evidence from a Policy Experiment in Benin

Markus Goldstein¹, Kenneth Houngbedji², Florence Kondylis¹, Edouard Mensah³, Michael O'Sullivan¹, Harris Selod¹

1: World Bank, United States of America; 2: Paris School of Economics; 3: Michigan State University

Inheritance law reform, empowerment, and human capital accumulation: Second generation effects from India

Klaus Deininger¹, Sognqing Jin², Fang Xia³

1: World Bank, United States of America; 2: Zhejiang University & Michigan State University; 3: University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, China

Impact of property rights reform to support China’s rural-urban integration: Evidence from the Chengdu national experiment

Klaus Deininger¹, Songqing Jin², Shouying Liu³, Fang Xia⁴

1: World Bank, United States of America; 2: Zhejiang University & Michigan State University; 3: Renmin University; 4: University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, China

Mapping gendered landscapes in the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT): Environmental histories, livelihood narratives, and story mapping

Emily Gallagher

Center for International Forestry Research, Kenya

Ethiopia’s Move to a National Integrated Land Use Policy and Land Use Plan

Zemen Haddis Gebeyehu¹, Solomon Bekure Woldegiorigis², Alehegn Dagnew Belete³, Tigistu Gebremeskel Abza⁴, Belete Tafere Desta⁵

1: USAID, Ethiopia; 2: Tetra Tech Inc.; 3: Tetra Tech Inc.; 4: Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Ethiopia; 5: Prime Minster Office, Ethiopia

Developing the National Land Use Policy in Myanmar: The Importance of Inclusive Public Consultations and Close Donor Coordination

Robert Oberndorf¹, U Shwe Thein², Thyn Zar Oo³

1: Tetra Tech, Myanmar; 2: Land Core Group, Myanmar; 3: Public Legal Aid Network (The PLAN), Myanmar

Evidence-based Land Use Planning Process: Piloting In Bago Region, Myanmar

Myat Su Mon

Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation, Myanmar

Allocative Efficiency or Agglomeration? Devolution of Household Forestland Management and Rental Markets in China

Yuanyuan Yi

University of Gothenburg, Sweden

The remote sensing implication in the property mass valuation GIS in Serbia

Stojanka Brankovic

Republic Geodetic Authority, Serbia

The Role of ICT in delivering Revenue Collection in Developing Countries: The Tanzanian Experience

William Mccluskey¹, Chyi-Yun Huang², Patrick Doherty³, Riel Franzsen⁴

1: African Tax Institute, University of Pretoria, South Africa; 2: World Bank; 3: Consultant; 4: African Tax Institute, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Land Management For Improved Dispute Resolution And Property Tax Revenue For Local Governments: Evidence From Somalia

Tefo Mooketsane

UN-Habitat, Kenya

Mass Valuation in a Developing Country: The Case of Chitungwiza Town in Zimbabwe

Maxwell Mutema

Independent Consultant, Zimbabwe

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

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

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

Land administration & property titles

Eduardo Martínez

IPRA-CINDER, Spain

Romania’s Housing Privatization as an Anticommons Problem

Robert Buckley, Ashna Mathema

World Bank group, United States of America

Public/Public Tenure Dualism in China: How the Dichotomy between State and Collective Ownership Has Shaped Urbanization and Driven the Emergence of Wealth Inequality

John Bruce

former Visiting Professor, Renmin University, Beijing; former Senior Land Law and Land Tenure Expert, World Bank; former Director, Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Market Exposure Makes Smallholders More Competitive and Closes the Gender Gap

Menusch Khadjavi, Kacana Sipangule, Rainer Thiele

Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Germany

Do the land poor gain from agricultural investments? Empirical evidence from Zambia using panel data

Sven Tengstam, Pelle Ahlerup

gothenburg university sweden, Sweden

Land Property Rights and Agricultural Productivity: Evidence from Panama

Gabriel Ivan Fuentes Cordoba

Tohoku University, Japan

Agricultural Intensification and Market Participation under Learning Externality: Impact Evaluation on Small-scale Agriculture

Tigist Mekonnen Melesse

UNU-MERIT, Netherlands, The

Compulsory Purchase Powers - Essential For Emerging Economies

Tony Mulhall, James Kavanagh

Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, United Kingdom

Eminent Domain in Finland

Markku Markkula

National Land Survey of Finland, Finland

Displacement politics and post-aid urban development: Resettlements, donors and infrastructure development in Beira city, Mozambique

Murtah Read^1,2, Annelies Zoomers^1,2, Kei Otsuki^1,2, Mayke Kaag^2,3

1: Utrecht University; 2: LANDac; 3: African Studies Center Leiden

Land For Infrastructure Development: Compulsory Acquisition And Compensation Of Undocumented /Unregistered Land In Kenya

Agatha Wanyonyi, Monica Obongo, Peter Mburu, Jane Ndiba

Ministry of Lands and Physical Planning, Kenya

Breaking the Mould:Lessons for Implementing Community Land Rights in Kenya

Collins Odote, Patricia Mbote

University of Naiorbi, Kenya

Investigating Community Knowledge Of Rural Land Resources In The Yway Gone Village Tract,Bago Region, Myanmar

Nicholas Thomas, Theingi May Soe

Tetra Tech, United States of America

Development of Pro-poor and Gender Responsive System (ProGResS) of Land Governance in Nepal

Janak Raj Joshi¹, Raja Ram Chhatkuli², Umashankar Pandey³, Bhagwat Rimal⁴, Dinesh Tuitui⁴, Habendra Prasad Dev⁵

1: Ministry of Land Reform and Management, Nepal; 2: UNHABITAT Nepal; 3: Department of Civil and Geomatics Engineering, Kathmandu University; 4: Project Engineering and Environmental Studies [PEES] Consultant (P) Ltd., Nepal; 5: Department of Land Information and Archive, Ministry of Land Reform and Management

Responsible Governance To Secure Land Rights Of Single-Women – An Example From Odisha (India)

Pranati Das

Landesa (Rural Development Institute), India

Towards an Analysis of Consequences of Large Scale Land Investments in the Urban-Rural Nexus.

Francesca Marzatico

Palladium

Agribusinesses, Smallholder Tenure Security and Plot-level investments: Evidence from rural Tanzania∗

Kacana Sipangule

Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Germany

This land is my land! Competing uses, large acquisitions and conflict events in Sub-Saharan Africa

Sara Balestri, Mario A. Maggioni

Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Italy

Land acquisition by foreigners in Brazil: legal framework changes and recent tendencies

Bastiaan Philip Reydon¹, Vitor Bukvar Fernandes¹, Gabriel Pansani Siqueira², José de Arimateia Barbosa³

1: University of Campinas, Brazil (Unicamp); 2: University of São Paulo, Brazil (USP); 3: Brazilian Land Registry Institute (IRIB), ANOREG/MT

Land Governance at the Crossroads: Finding the Locus between Development Efforts and Human Rights Concerns

Mofe Oluwashola Jeje

Commonwealth Intelligence & Ally Network (CIAN)

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). - The Role of the Private Land Sector in Supporting the 2030 Global Agenda

Kenneth Norre, Cecilie Ravn-Christensen

LE34, Denmark

Use of Cluster Farming to improve productivity and reduce poverty amongst small holder rural farmers in Jigawa State, Nigeria

Ibrahim Hadejia

Jigawa State Governemnt, Nigeria

Land Governance: A Study About Conflict Land in the Acre

Elyson Ferreira de Souza¹, Bastiaan Reydon²

1: University of Acre, Brazil; 2: University of Campinas, Brazil

Ethnic Politics, Civil Conflicts And Agricultural Investments In South-west Nigeria

Clementina Oluwafunke Ajayi¹, Adegboyega Eyitayo Oguntade¹, Evans S. Osabuohien²

1: Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria, Nigeria; 2: Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria

Large-Scale Land Acquisitions (LSLAs): Global analysis And Cambodia Case Study

Evan Ellicott, Zhong Honglin, Haviland Katherine, de Bremond Ariane, Hubacek Klaus, Feng Kuishuang, Magliocca Nick

University of Maryland, United States of America

Institutional Policies Integration Assessment: The Case of Acre State/ Brazil

Elyson Ferreira de Souza¹, Bastiaan Reydon²

1: University of Acre - Brazil; 2: University of Campinas- Brazil

The Deliver for Good Campaign: Bringing a Gender Lens to the Sustainable Development Goals

Susan Papp, Kelsi Boyle, Savannah Russo

Women Deliver, United States of America

Rural Women and Land equity in Ethiopia

Yalemzewid Demssie Fantaye

Ministry of Agriculture, Ethiopia

Gender, Land Rights and Access to Land Justice in Northern Uganda.

Frances Birungi

Uganda Community Based Association for Women and Children's welfare ( UCOBAC), Uganda

Land Ownership and Poverty Status of Female Headed Farming Household in South West Nigeria

Olabisi Fawehinmi

Bowen University, Nigeria

Gender Dimensions To Securing Land Rights And Agricultural Development In Nigeria

Olubunmi Lawrence Balogun¹, Kayode Ayantoye², Taofeek Ayodeji Ayo-Bello¹

1: Babcock University, Illishan Remo, Nigeria; 2: Kwara State University Malete, Ilorin, Nigeria

An analysis of Tanzania's implementation of the 1999 land reforms: Bridging the gender gap in the land tenure debate

Lynette Gwantwa Mwaikinda, Rita Sekela Mwaikinda

Lynette Mwaikinda Consulting Group

Action-Oriented Strategic Research for Improving Responsibility and Gender-Equitability of Land Tenure Governance

Elizabeth Daley, Zoe Driscoll

Mokoro Ltd, United Kingdom

Examining the Nexus between Gender Transformation, Agricultural Transformation and Household Food Insecurity in South Africa. Evidence from a 2014 Household Survey.

Christopher Manyamba

University of Pretoria, South Africa

A Humanities And Social Science Perspective On How People With Rights To Land May Or May Not Have Land Rights

Walter Timo de Vries¹, Beatrice Kan Balivet², Alida Sahili², Muriel Maillefert², Ola Jingryd³, Magnus E. Andersson³, Helena Bohman³, Ase Falk³, Phalthy Hap⁴, Pamela Duran¹, Jean Deleage⁵

1: Technical University Munich, Germany; 2: Universtiy of Lyon III, Jean Moulin; 3: Malmö University; 4: Royal University of law and economics Cambodia; 5: Conseil Superieur du Notariat

A Warped Land Adjudication and a Faulty Legal Regime: The Impact of Insecurity on women land and property rights in Tana River County Kenya

Mitchelle Oyuga, Nancy Ikinu

Federation of Women Lawyers-Kenya(FIDA-Kenya), Kenya

Registration Of Occupancies To Enhance Security Of Tenure And Sustainability For Customary And Common Lands And For Natural Resources

Roscoe Sozi^1,2

1: Law Develoment Centre; 2: Sozi & Partners Advocates

Legal Pluralism And Land Administration In West Sumatra: The Implementation Of The Regulations Of Both Local And Nagari Governments On Communal Land Tenure

Hilaire Tegnan

Andalas University, Indonesia

Land Rights and Agricultural Productivity in Ethiopia

Temesgen Gebeyehu Baye

Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia

Land Ownership, Fortification Of Poverty And Governance Issues – Nigeria

Dotun Andrew Ibiwoye

Vanguard Newspaper, Nigeria

Land Rights and Farmer Decision Making for Productivity and Soil Fertility Management in Uganda and Mozambique

Robert Mazur¹, Naboth Bwambale¹, Eric Abbott¹, Moses Tenywa²

1: Iowa State University, United States of America; 2: Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

The Place Of Council Of Elders In The New Constitutional Dispensation: A Case Study Of The Traditional Justice System In Kenya

Mitchelle Oyuga, Nancy Ikinu

Federation of Women Lawyers-Kenya(FIDA-Kenya), Kenya

Perceived Land Tenure Security And Investment In Integrated Soil Fertility Management Practices Among Smallholders In Masaka District, Central Uganda.

Naboth Bwambale, Robert E. Mazur, Eric Abbott

Iowa State University, United States of America

Application of Linear programming technique to assess the area allocation, income distribution and employment in case of Finger Millet in Karnataka

Veerabhadrappa Bellundagi

UAS, GKVK, Bengaluru, India

The Agrarian Question And The Migration Process In The Northern Region of Brazil

Luciana Vasquez, Alexandre Maia, Elyson Souza

University of Campinas, Brazil

Promoting Agriculture based Micro and Small Industry through Land Reform Policy: Nepalese Perspective

Rabindra Raj Dhakal

School of Environmental Science and Management, Nepal

The Impact of Food Price Changes and Land Policy Reforms on Household Welfare in Rural Tanzania

Tukae Mbegalo

Georg August University, Goettingen, Germany

Hypothesis Of The Decrease Of The Poverty In Drc (Ground Floor) By The Sustainable Development Of The Congolese Ground

Kabamba Tshikongo Arsene

UNIVERSITE DE LUBUMBASHI, Congo, Democratic Republic of the

An institutional assessment of the impact of access to land by the youth on adoption of resilience building farm practices in Kenya

Lutta Wamukoya Muhammad, Domisiano K. Mwabu

Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO), Kenya

Farmland Distribution and Rural Transformation in Developing Regions

Sarah Lowder², Raffaele Bertini¹

1: Independent Consultant and Adjunct Faculty, Georgetown University; 2: Food and Agriculture Organization

“Challenges of Land Use in Nepal and Way forward “

Karuna Ghimire, Bikash Shrestha, Sanjeev Poudel

Paribartan Nepal,nongovernmental organization, Nepal

Impact of land Fragmentation on agriculture productivity in Punjab,Pakistan

Rakhshanda Kousar, Ayesha Ajaz, Tahira Sadaf, Javaria Nasir

University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan, Pakistan

Assessing Customary Land Administration as an Innovation for Improving Land Governance

Lillian Arthur

Development and Land Solutions Consult, Ghana

Securing Land Rights in Rural Communities: The Community Land Act

Jacob Kaimenyi

Ministry of Lands and Physical Planning Kenya, Kenya

Cooperation, transaction cost and heterogeneous saving response in rural Ethiopia: Evidence from natural experiment

Dambala Gelo Kutela

University of Cape Town, South Africa

Urbanisation: Conflicting Impact on Land Resource and Protection for Food Security

Muhammad Uzair Azizan¹, Khadijah Hussin²

1: Land Administration and Development Studies (LAnDS) Research Group, Faculty of Geoinformation and Real Estate, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia; 2: Department of Real Estate, Faculty of Geoinformation and Real Estate, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia

Challenges to sustainability and resilience in wetlands managements activities among diverse ethnic communities and land tenure systems in Cameroon

Stephen Koghan Ndzeidze¹, Richard Achia Mbih², Harry Mairomi Wirngo³, Bongadzem Carine Sushuu⁴