Conference Agenda

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

1: Department of Animal and Rangeland Sciences, and Integrated Plant Protection Center, Oregon State University, USA; 2: African Studies Program, College of Liberal Arts, The Pensylvania State University, USA; 3: Department of Geography, University of Yaoundé 1, Cameroon; 4: Department of Geography, University of Yaoundé 1, Cameroon

Land Use and Carbon Flux: Looking to the Future

Sankalp Sharma, Tajamul Haque, Anil Giri

Oklahoma Panhandle State University, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, United States of America

Costs land degradation and improvement in Eastern Africa: Case of Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi and Tanzania

Oliver Kirui, Alisher Mirzabaev

Center for Development Research, Germany

Impacts of Land Tenure and Property Rights on Land Management in Ethiopia

Befikadu Legesse, Osei Yeboah

North Carolina A&T State University, United States of America

Valuation of water purification services of forests: Panel data evidence from South Africa

Dambala Gelo Kutela, Jane Turpie

University of Cape Town, South Africa

Impact of Land Tenure on Farmers’ Adaptive Investment in Coping with Climate Change in China

Yangjie Wang

Central South University, China, People's Republic of

Examining Forest Governance Policies And Regulations Enforcement Within Mt. Cameroon National Park REDD+ Conservation Projects

Suzanne Awung Nvenakeng^1,2, Douglas Awung Tajocha²

1: The University of York, UK.; 2: The Forgotten Green Heroes, Buea, Cameroon

Public-private partnerships in development cooperation: can they contribute to Inclusive Green Growth?

Jetske Bouma, Ezra Berkhout, Martijn Vink

Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL), Netherlands, The

Promoting Climate Justice in Degraded Landscapes: Appreciating Smallholder Farmers’ Perspectives on Climate Change in Western Kenya

David Otieno¹, Willis Oluoch-Kosura², Dennis Olumeh³, Daniella Maroma⁴

1: University of Nairobi, Kenya; 2: University of Nairobi, Kenya; 3: University of Nairobi, Kenya; 4: Department of Geography, University of Leicester, UK

Impact of Land Degradation on Household Poverty in Malawi and Tanzania: Evidence from Panel Data Simultaneous Equation Models

Oliver Kirui

Center for Development Research, Germany

Land degradation and poverty among subsistence farming households in Nigeria: Empirical Analysis of Linkage and Responsible land governance

Temidayo Apata¹, Oluwafemi Aladejebi², Olasimbo Apata³, Alaanu Obaisi⁴

1: Federal University, Oye-Ekiti, Nigeria, Nigeria; 2: Federal University, Oye-Ekiti,; 3: Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria, Nigeria; 4: Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria,

The Role of Policy framework for Sustainability and Resilience of Land Resources in Lake Tana, Ethiopia

Fenta Dejen Wudu

Amhara Regional State of Rural Land Administration and Use Bureau, Ethiopia

Awareness Raising Among The Local Communities And Institutional Capacity On Climate Change Mitigation Through Youth Participation In Apiarist.

Emmanuel Adiba¹, Edmond Owor¹, Samuel Mabikke², Lillian Achola³

1: Uganda Land Alliance, Uganda; 2: UN-Habitat; 3: LANDnet

Connecting Theory and Practice: Communal Land Management Approaches for Increased Productivity, Sustainability and Inclusion

Raquel Orejas, Jeremy Schlickenrieder, Amy Logan

Humana People to People

Productivity Growth and Convergence in Vietnamese Agriculture

Wendi Sun

Rockland Trust, United States of America

The Resource State: Deconstructing the Causality of Growth, Bad Governance, and Land and Natural Resource Rights

Tiernan Mennen

Abt Associates

Poverty And Land Degradation

Olalekan Gafar Okusajo

Nigerian Red Cross, Nigeria

Impact of Land Use /Land Cover Change on Farmers Livelihoods in the Eastern Periphery of Lake Tana, Northwest Ethiopia

Babiyew Zewdie, Belayneh Ayele, Eyayu Molla

Amhara National Regional State of Rural Land Adminstration and Use Bureau, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia

Agricultural Price Distortions in Africa and Their Effect on Land Use Efficiency

Mandy Malan¹, Ezra Berkhout², Jetske Bouma², Jeroen Klomp³

1: International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Uganda; 2: Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency; 3: Wageningen University and Research

Do forest-land tenure reforms secure rights of forest dependent communities in the tropics? Findings from a cross -country comparative study.

Baruani Mshale, Esther Mwangi, Anne Larson, Iliana Monteroso, Mani Ram Banjade, Nining Liswant, Tuti Herawati

Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Kenya

“The valuation of ecosystem services and biodiversity, geospatial technology application and the political economy of resource exploitation on customary land in Fiji, Case studies, Namosi Land Copper mining (Viti Levu) and Bua Bauxite mining (Vanua Levu), from ridge to reef assessment”

Paula Daniva Raqeukai

The University of the South Pacific, Fiji Islands

the Integration Of Ecotourism In Combating Desertification Polcies In Arid Land Area: Case Study of Béni-Khédache in the South East of Tunisia

Harabi Hassen

UMR Passages - Pau University, France

The Debilitating Impact Of Exploration: Land Reclamation Within The Legal Framework Of Environmental Protection In The Niger Delta Area Of Nigeria

Foluke Olayemi Dada

American University of Nigeria, Yola. Nigeria, United States of America

The Project Phytokat In Katanga (DRC): Conditions For The Integration Of Traditional Medicine In Modern Healthcare And A Model Answer Against Anthropogenic Erosion Of Biodiversity

Bakari Amuri¹, Pierre Meerts², Sandrine Vandenput³, Victor Okombe¹, Edouard Ngoy⁴, Mylor Ngoy Shutcha¹, Olivier Kahola Tabu¹, Florence Kampemba Mujinga¹, Jules Nkulu Fyama¹, Pierre Duez⁵

1: Université de Lubumbashi (RDC), Congo, Democratic Republic of the; 2: Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium; 3: Université de Liège, Belgium; 4: Institut Supérieur Pédagogique de Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo; 5: Université de Mons, Belgium

Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management Project (NEWMAP); an Innovative Way of Solving Gully Erosion and Addressing Land Management Issues In Nigeria

Ibrahim Usman Jibril

Federal Ministry of Environment, Federal Government of Nigeria, Nigeria

Land Tenure Security for Increased Climate Change Resilience in Africa

Evelyn Namubiru-Mwaura

POLICY INNOVATIONS, Uganda

Integrating Heavy Metals Contaminated Soils From The Katangan Copperbelt (Democratic Republic of Congo) In Land Governance: Phytoremediation And Enhancing Ecosystem Services.

Mylor Ngoy Shutcha¹, Sylvain Boison², François Munyemba Kankumbi¹, Michel-Pierre Faucon³, Ckeface Kamengwa Kissi¹, Jacques Kilela Mwana Somwe¹, Michel Mpundu Mubemba¹, Gregory Mahy², Pierre Meerts⁴, Gilles Colinet²

1: Université de Lubumbashi, Congo, Democratic Republic of the; 2: Université de Liège, Belgium; 3: Institut Polytechnique Lasalle Beauvais, France; 4: Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

Using The Law As A Tool To Eviscerate The Effect Of Mining On Host Comunities: A Case Study Of Niger, Oyo And Plateau States Of Nigeria

Olanike Odewale^1,2, Sadiq Shikyil¹, Foluke Dada¹

1: American University of Nigeria; 2: University of Pretoria

The impact of density of population, land use, irrigation and literacy on poverty in Telangana State of India, 1881 - 2015.

Sneha Nalla, Divya Nalla

Nalla Malla Reddy Engineering College, India

Brazil-Peru Energy Cooperation in the Amazon Basin: Challenges for Socio And Environmental Responsible Financing

Paula Franco Moreira

Universidade Federal de Tocantins, Brazil

Advances On Multistakeholders Dialogues For Improve Land Governance In Brazil

Andreia Marques Postal, Bastiaan Philip Reydon, Ana Paula Bueno

Unicamp, Brazil