Conference Agenda

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Securing Land In Butana For Rural Poor

Rashid Abdelaziz Musaad

Butana Development Agency, Sudan

Institution For Managing The Commons And Customary Land

Richard Okello Lukiko, Frances Birungi

Uganda Land Alliance, UCOBAC

Rights-Based Approach to Land: The Case of Seaweed Farmers in Caluya, Antique, Philippines

Violeta Corral

PAKISAMA, Philippines

Women’s Access to Irrigated Land in a Patrilineal Customary Area: Baare Community Irrigation Project.

Emmanuel Offei Akrofi

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Marine Cadastre in Europe: State of Play

Evangelia Balla¹, Hendrikus Johannes {Rik} Wouters²

1: National Cadastre and Mapping Agency S.A. (EKXA), Greece; 2: Dutch Cadastre, Land Registry and Mapping Agency (Kadaster), Netherlands, The

Marine Cadasters...The Final Frontier

Tim Fella

ESRI, United States of America

Modelling Agricultural Land Market Distortions the Size Distribution of Farms

Miguel Robles¹, Manuel Hernandez², Danilo Trupkin³

1: World Bank; 2: IFPRI, United States of America; 3: Universidad de Buenos Aires

Land Tenure Systems, Food Security and Poverty: Evidence from Africa

Harriet Kasidi Mugera

World Bank

Herbicides Induce Territorialization and Are Weapons in Farmer–Pastoralist Interactions in Northern Benin

Georges Djohy^1,2, Honorat Edja², Ann Waters-Bayer³

1: Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, Georg-August University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany; 2: Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Parakou, Parakou, Benin; 3: Prolinnova / Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), Amsterdam, Netherlands

Land tenure differences and adoption of agri-environmental practices: Evidence from Benin (West Africa)

Kotchikpa Gabriel Lawin^1,2, Lota Dabio Tamini^1,2

1: Laval University, Department of Agricultural Economics and Consumer Science , Canada; 2: Laval University, Center for Research on the Economics of the Environment, Agri-food, Transports and Energy (CREATE),Canada

‘Koudemain’: Collaborative land strategies in the Kalinago Territory

Charlotte Eloise Stancioff¹, Kimani Lapps^2,3, Cozier Frederick^2,4, Corinne Hofman¹

1: Leiden University, Netherlands, The; 2: Salybia Heritage and Restoration Project; 3: Ministry of Gender Affairs; 4: Ministry of Kalinago Affairs

Interface Between Customary And Formal Land Management Systems: Mizoram, India

Devika Bahadur

World Bank, India

Land Governance, Land Policy and Indigenous People Land Use and Access Rights in the Brazilian Amazon and Matopiba after the Constitution of 1988

Vitor Bukvar Fernandes¹, Bastiaan Philip Reydon¹, Delaide Passos¹, Ana Paula Silva Bueno¹, Paula Franco Moreira²

1: University of Campinas, Brazil; 2: Federal University of Tocantins, Brazil

They Will Need Land! The current land tenure situation and future land allocation needs of smallholder farmers in Cambodia

Jean-Christophe Diepart

Mekong Region Land Governance, Cambodia

The Root of the Measure: Methodological Experiment on Cassava Production and Variety Identification

Heather Moylan¹, Talip Kilic¹, John Ilukor¹, Innocent Phiri²

1: World Bank; 2: Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources

Demonstrating Development of First Global Land Index

Vrajlal Sapovadia

Techno Consult, India

The Culture Of Land Ownership: Women's Claim Making Strategies

Shipra Deo, Govind Kelkar

Landesa, India