Conference Agenda

Implementation of Land Rights Commitments Through Suppliers

Andrew Slight

PepsiCo, United States of America

A Multi-stakeholder Approach to Addressing Land Tenure Risk Through the Supply Chain

Donald Bryson Ogden

Rights and Resources Initiative, United States of America

Opportunities in Private Sector Engagement and Action on Land Rights

Joan Carling

Indigenous Peoples Major Group for the SDGs, United States of America

Implementing Land Rights Commitments Across Company Operations

Laura Eshbach

Landesa, United States of America

Harnessing Ukraine's Economic Potential through Open Land Markets: Current Status and Next Steps

Maksym Martynyuk

Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food, Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine

Capitalizing on Land Reform's Investment Potential by Ensuring Credit Access for Small Farmers: Challenges and Prospects

Leah Soroka, Vahe Vardanyan

World Bank, United States of America

Legal and Administrative Measures to Protect Land Rights against Multiple Challenges

Olena Sukmanova

Ministry of Justice of Ukraine, Ukraine

Using Monitoring Results to Take Ukraine's Land Governance to the Next Level

Oleksandr Kolotilin, Liudmyla Shemelynets

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

Linking Land Cadaster and Registry of Rights: Institutional Challenges and Technical Solutions

Stanislav Lurie

State Enterprise "National Information Systems", Ukraine

Helping Ukraine complete its journey towards transparency in the land sector

Klaus Deininger¹, Denys Nizalov²

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

A New Wave of Land Reforms in China: Conceptual Issues, Initial Evidence, and Avenues for Future Research

Songqing Jin

Zhejiang University, China, People's Republic of

Targeted Poverty Alleviation in China since 2013: Central Government’s Plan and Typical Local Practices

Yurui Li

Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, China, People's Republic of

Targeted Poverty Alleviation and Land Policy Innovation in China: From Theory to Practices

Yang Zhou

Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, People's Republic of

Improving land governance and increasing women’s access and control over land through collective actions – the case of Pernambuco

Patricia Maria Queiroz Chaves

Espaço Feminista, Brazil

The Untold Story – How Media Coverage Can Change The Narrative On Land And Property Rights

Astrid Zweynert

Thomson Reuters Foundation, United Kingdom

Using spatial data tools to support the development and sustainability of social land concessions for the landless or land-poor in Cambodia

Try Thy, Punwath Prum, David Hindley

Open Development Cambodia (ODC), Cambodia

Land Corruption in Africa: Secure Tenure Rights and Engage Local Communities

Jean Brice Tetka¹, Annette Jaitner¹, Michael Okai², Bienvenu Tsivozahy³

1: Transparency International-Secretariat, Germany; 2: Transparency International-Ghana; 3: Transparency International-Madagascar

An Assessment of PPPs in Land Administration: Development of a Set of Pre-requisites for Effective PPP Implementation

John Meadows, Kate Fairlie, Daniel Paez, Tony Burns

Land Equity International, Australia

Engaging the Private Sector: A Taxonomy of Real Problems Faced by Industry That Can Be Addressed by Improved Land Management Systems

Philip Edgar Auerswald^1,2, Gitanjali Swamy^2,3

1: George Mason University, United States of America; 2: Zilla Global LLC; 3: Iotask LLC

Contracting out services for land regularization. The new roles of the private sector in land administration

Victor Endo¹, Luis Triveno², Enrique Pantoja²

1: Land Alliance, Peru; 2: World Bank, USA

Conceptual Design of a Private Investment Scorecard for Land Administration in Developing Countries

Daniel Paez¹, Tony Burns²

1: Universidad de los Andes, Colombia; 2: Land Equity International

Benefits Sharing Model on Large Scale Investment in Land: A Case of Large Scale Investment in Tanzania

Mbaraka Stambuli

Ministry of Lands Housing and Human Settlements Development, Land Tenure Support Programme (LTSP), Tanzania

Identifying Community Membership in Collective Land Tenure: Exploring Linkages and Sharing Experiences in the Case of River Cess County in Liberia

Ali Kaba

The Sustainable Development Institute (SDI)

Innovative Mechanisms For Better Responsible In Large-Scale Land Based Investment In Agriculture And Forestry Development In Vietnam

Nguyen Anh Phong¹, Pham Quang Tu², Ta Thu Trang¹

1: Institute of Policy and Strategy for Agriculture and Rural Development, Vietnam; 2: OXFAM Vietnam

Towards Responsible Agricultural Investment in Lao PDR: a study of agribusiness experiences

Justine Morven Sylvester

GIZ, Lao People's Democratic Republic

Mapping and Territory: What Critical Cartography Offers to an Analysis of Land Governance?

Fernando Galeana

Cornell University, USA

Conflict in Collective Formalization Processes: Opportunities for Transformation?

Anne Larson¹, Esther Mwangi², Iliana Monterroso¹, Nining Liswanti³, Tuti Herawati³

1: CIFOR, Peru; 2: CIFOR, Kenya; 3: CIFOR, Indonesia

Urgency of Village Boundary Setting / Resource Mapping, Villages and Land Governance in Indonesia

Muchammad Sigit Widodo¹, Akhmad Safik¹, Sofwan Hakim¹, Rubeta Andriani², Martin Hardiono², Kevin Barthel²

1: Millennium Challenge Account - Indonesia (MCA-Indonesia); 2: Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC)

Addressing Encroachment on State Forest Land in Tunisia

Amanda Bradley, Jamel Kailene

United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, Italy

Transitions to land tenure rights based on the ‘living customary law’: innovations to secure land rights in peri-urban areas of sub-Saharan Africa

Emaculate Ingwani¹, Simon Bekker²

1: University of Venda, South Africa; 2: Stellenbosch University

Institutional Framework and Access to Land in Peri-urban Tanzania: A Perspective from Actors

Said Nuhu

Ardhi University, Tanzania

Planning rural areas in an urbanized world: Critical issue for Colombia

Margarita María Varón Perea¹, Javier Caropresse¹, Andres Mejía¹, Angela Penagos²

1: Colombia Rural, Colombia; 2: RIMISP, Colombia

Development Control in Practice: Protection of Agricultural Land in Kosovo

Shkelqim Daci¹, Servet Spahiu²

1: GIZ, Kosovo; 2: Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning

Reframing Local Land Use Planning Methods and Tools In South West Cameroon as a Foundation for Secure Tenure, Sustainable and Equitable Rural Development, and REDD+

Tim Fomete³, James Acworth², Arnaud Afana¹, Richard Sufo³, Jos Bonnemaijer², Uchendu Chigbu⁷, Harrison Ajebe⁴, Patrick Epie⁵, Massimiliano Rossi⁵, Thomas Sembres⁶, Pascal Douard³

1: Ministry of Economy, Plan and Territorial Management (MINEPAT); 2: LTS international; 3: Rainbow Environment Consult; 4: Ajemalebu Self Help (AJESH); 5: Rainforest Foundation UK; 6: European Forest Institute (EFI); 7: Technical University of Munich (TUM)

The "Where?" in Participatory Local Land Use Planning: A Web Mapping Approach in South-West Cameroon

James Acworth¹, Thomas Maschler², Tim Fomete⁶, Harrison Ajebe⁵, Pascal Douard⁷, William Apted¹, Simone Vaccari¹, Johannes Pirker⁸, Charlotte Wilczok³, Robert Kringel³, Patrick Epie⁴, Samuel Dieval⁴, Richard Sufo⁶, Patrice Nsegbe⁹

1: LTS international; 2: World Resources Institute (WRI); 3: German Federal Geosciences Institute (BGR); 4: Rainforest Foundation UK (RFUK); 5: Ajemalebu Self Help (AJESH); 6: Rainbow Environment Consult; 7: European Forest Institute (EFI); 8: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA); 9: Ministry of Economy, Planning and Regional Development (MINEPAT), Cameroon

A Tool for Ensuring Policy Impacting Research Results in Land Use Land Cover and Land use Planning

John Kalisa

World Bank Group, Rwanda

Village by Village, Map by Map: Lessons for One Map Implementation - Affecting Synergies Between Villages, Regulatory and Administrative Structures, Through an Interconnected, Participatory and Community Centred-Approach to Village Boundary Settings (VBS) in Indonesia.

Dhyana Paramita

Abt Associates, Indonesia

Community Land Protection in Liberia: The Impact on Neocustomary Norms and Institutions

Alexandra Hartman¹, Kate Marple-Cantrell², Heather Huntington², Adi Greif²

1: University College London, Political Science; 2: The Cloudburst Group, United States of America

Does Tenure Reform Influence Household Food Security?

Nining Liswanti, Esther Mwangi, Michael Ndwiga, Tuti Herawati, Anne Larson, Iliana Monterosso

Center for International Forestry Research, Indonesia

Silver Bullets or Shooting Blanks: Estimating the Impact of Formal Land Property Rights on Economic Development in Rural Colombia.

Camilo Pardo¹, Kurt Birson²

1: George Mason University, United States of America; 2: George Mason University, United States of America

Rural property rights and migration: evidence from Ethiopia.

Sebastian Kriticos

The London School of Economics, United Kingdom

The Swedish Land Registry Blockchain Project: Update and Implications for Modernizing Land Registration Systems

Henrik Hjelte, Todd Miller

ChromaWay, United States of America

Dubai Real Estate Block Chain

Khalifa Alsuwaidi

Dubai Land Department, United Arab Emirates- Emirates Real Estate Solutions

Blockchain and Land: Proof of Concept

Aanchal Anand¹, Stela Mocan¹, Yasemin Palta¹, Peter Zhou¹, Mahesh Karajgi¹, Rumyana Tonchovska²

1: World Bank, United States of America; 2: Food and Agriculture Organization

Blockchain - Georgian Experience Phase II

Papuna Ugrekhelidze, Elene Grigolia

National Agency of Public Registry Ministry of Justice of Georgia, Georgia

Gender Gap In Ownership To Agricultural Land In Rural Tanzania: Implications to Wealth Distribution

Sophia Kongela

ARDHI UNIVERSITY, Tanzania

Gender and Land Tenure Security in Gusii Kenya: Improving Household welfare through land Rights

Dolphine Kwamboka Isinta, Michael Flitner

Bremen University, Germany

Enhancing Women’s Land Rights Under Customary Tenure Through Issuance Of Certificates Of Customary Ownership And Communal Land Associations

Dorcas Wagima Okalany, Naome Kabanda

Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Uganda

Gender-disaggregated data: A key prerequisite for realizing women’s land rights in Africa

Fridah Wanjiku Githuku¹, Dickson Njunge¹, Michelle McLinden-Nuijen²

1: GROOTS Kenya; 2: LANDac/ Utrecht University, Netherlands, The

Introducing WOLTS: Action-oriented research on women’s land tenure security in Mongolia and Tanzania

Elizabeth Daley¹, Kristina Lanz¹, Yansanjav Narangerel², Amani Mhinda³, Zoe Driscoll¹, Natsagdorj Lkhamdulam², Joyce Ndakaru³, Jim Grabham¹

1: Mokoro Ltd, United Kingdom; 2: People Centered Conservation (PCC), Mongolia; 3: HakiMadini, Tanzania

Nested Interconnection: Transgressing Community-Based Natural Resource Management towards Innovating Collective Landscape Mobilization

Ratchada Arpornsilp^1,2, Rawee Thaworn²

1: Cornell University (CU), United States of America; 2: The Center for People and Forests (RECOFTC), Thailand

Using Data to Support Women’s Rights: Property Markets and Housing Rights through a Gender Equity Lens

Sylvia Luchini, Karly Kiefer, Bill Endsley

IHC Global, United States of America

Sharing Evaluation Findings with Community Stakeholders

Kate Marple-Cantrell

The Cloudburst Group, United States of America

Setting the agenda for Government’s catalytic role in Democratic Republic of Congo: harnessing land resources for development

Lumeya Dhu Maleghi

Ministère des Affaires Foncières, Congo, Democratic Republic of the

The Role of Customary Authorities in Facilitating Governance

Drani Stephen Izakare

Madi Community

Developing requisite capacities for land governance in Africa

Paul Tchawa

University of Yaoundé 1, Cameroon

Secured Land Rights and Sustainable Agricultural Investments

Harison Randriarimanana

Presidency in charge of Agriculture and Livestock, Madagascar

Envision Integrated Land Use Policy and Planning to Enahanced Land Governance in Ethiopia: Practice and Challenges

Ato Belete Tafere

Prime Minister Office, Ethiopia

Putting It All together: Whose Land? Whose Agenda?

Joan Kagwanja

UNECA, Ethiopia

The Fight to Eliminate Fraud, Corruption, Tax Avoidance and Evasion in Land Administration

David Laurence Magor

Institute of Revenues Rating and Valuation, United Kingdom

Land Registries, Fraud and Money Laundering

Nicolás Nogueroles¹, Jan Moerkerke², Jacques Vos³, Luis Alberto Aliaga Huaripata⁴, Eduardo Martinez⁵, Oscar Rodriguez⁶

1: IPRA-CINDER (International Property Registries Association), Spain; 2: ELRA (European Land Registries Association)Belgium; 3: Kadaster Holland; 4: Tribunal Registral de Peru; 5: Colegio de Registradores Spain; 6: Registro Nacional de Costa Rica

Fraud And Money Laundering in the Land Registry of Costa Rica

Oscar Rodríguez Sánchez

Registro Nacional, Costa Rica

European Directives and the Role of the Land and Business Registries Against Money Laundering and Terrorism

Carmen Miquel

IPRA-CINDER, Spain

Fraud Prevention Through the Key Registries in Netherland

Jacob Vos

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

Money Laundering in Peru, Preventive Measures and Fight From the Public Registries

Luis Alberto Aliaga Huaripata

Superintendencia Nacional de los Registros Publicos, Peru

How to Fight Fraud by Double Sales and Overlapping Registration of Real Property in A Simple Way - the Belgian Example

Jan Moerkerke

ELRA - European Land Registry Association, Belgium

Scalable Platform Based On Open Source For Land Administration Systems

Sergiy Lizenko, Maksym Kalyta, Vasyl Melnychuk

Innola Solutions, Inc., United States of America

Harmonizing Laws and Regulations with New Technologies and Innovations in Land Administration

Tarek Zein

Hansa Luftbild AG, Germany

Interconnected Donors: Sustainable Development from Pilot to Delivery at Scale

Kent Johan Ronny Nilsson¹, Frank Pichel², Maria Lodin³

1: Lantmäteriet, Sweden; 2: Cadasta Foundation, USA; 3: Kartverket, Norway

Sharing Information to make better decisions about our World

Trevor Taylor

Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), United States of America

Taking Land Governance Performance Monitoring To The Next Level: Towards a Uniform Vision For Data Standards

Lisette Mey, Neil Sorensen, Laura Meggiolaro

Land Portal Foundation

How People-Centered Land Monitoring can Contribute to the Realization of the SDGs and VGGTs – The case of ILC's Dashboard

Ward Anseeuw¹, Eva Hershaw²

1: CIRAD / International Land Coalition, Italy; 2: International Land Coalition, Italy

Strengthening Global Coordination for Land Governance Monitoring and Data for Policy Decisions; Experiences from Global Land Indicators Initiative

Everlyne Nairesiae Lingoine

GLII/GLTN - UN Habitat

Land Governance and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Consolidating and Harmonizing Monitoring Initiatives

Neil Sorensen¹, Laura Meggiolaro¹, Romy Sato²

1: Land Portal Foundation, France; 2: Global Donor Working Group on Land

Resilient Housing for Resilient Cities

Theresa Williamson

Catalytic Communities, Brazil

Do Families Want to Invest in Making Their Homes More Resilient?

Julie Abrams

MicroBuild Fund and Impact Investing Analytics, United States of America

Can We Actually Retrofit Homes? Does It Make Economic and Social Sense?

Elizabeth Ann Hausler

Build Change, United States of America

How Can We Leverage Technology to Identify Housing Units that Need Retrofitting at a Low-cost?

Sarah Antos

World Bank, United States of America

Deforestation Risks: Financial Costs and Tropical Agriculture Supply Chains

Gabriel Thoumi. CFA. FRM

Climate Advisers, United States of America

Facing Criticism: Responsibility, Large-Scale Land Acquisition, and its Critics

Tijo Salverda

University of Cologne, Germany

Land and Poverty through the prism of the Norwegian Investment Fund for Developing Countries: Sustainable development, Large Scale Land Based investments and its impacts on land rights, poverty alleviation and food security in Tanzania.

Maïmouna-Lise Pouye

University of Oslo, Norway

The First Biennial Investor Survey on Land Rights: Revealing the perceptions and practices of the private sector on land and resource issues and risks

Jeffrey Hatcher¹, Sarah Lowery², Daphne Yin¹, Iris Dicke¹, Michael Owen¹, Yijia Chen³

1: Indufor North America, United States of America; 2: USAID; 3: Individual

Linking The Continuum Of Land Rights To Production Orientation And Management Styles: Lessons From Research In Namibia

Elke Astrid Matthaei^1,2

1: GIZ, Germany; 2: University of Stellenbosch, South Africa

Strengthening Women’s Land Rights: Lessons From Agricultural Development Programmes In Sub-Saharan Africa

Elisa Mandelli, Steven Jonckheere, Anja Rabezanahary, Harold Liversage

IFAD, Italy

Capacity Development Lessons from Tenure Security Learning Initiative in Eastern and Southern Africa (TSLI-ESA)

Uchendu Eugene Chigbu¹, Agatha Wanyonyi², Brendah Achungo², Solomon Mkumbwa², Oumar Sylla², Harold Liversage³

1: Technical University of Munich, Germany; 2: GLTN/UN-HABITAT, Kenya; 3: IFAD, Italy

Mainstreaming support for good land governance into agricultural and rural development programmes: Lessons from IFAD-supported projects

Steven Raoul Filip Jonckheere, Harold Liversage

IFAD, Italy

Analysis And Reflection On Methodologies And Practices For The Formalization Of Land Rights

Florian Lebourdais, Jean-François Dalbin

Ordre des Géomètres-experts, France

Market-led Initiatives To Land Tenure Security In Ghana: Contribution Of Gated Communities

Richmond Juvenile Ehwi, Peter Tyler, Nicky Morrison

University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Impact and Effectiveness of Urban Planning on City Spatial Development – A Case of Tanzania Secondary Cities

Chyi-Yun Huang¹, Ally Hassan Namangaya², MaryGrace Weber¹, Isabel D Cantada¹

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

Impact of Litigation on the Real Estate Market in Mumbai

Sahil Gandhi¹, Vaidehi Tandel², Alex Tabarrok³, Shamika Ravi⁴

1: Tata Institute of Social Sciences; 2: IDFC Institute; 3: George Mason University; 4: Brookings India and Member, Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council

Environmental Rural Cadaster (CAR) in the Priority Municipalities for Deforestation Monitoring and Control in Amazonia, Brazil

Rejane Marques Mendes¹, Bernardo de Araújo Moraes Trovão¹, Janaína de Almeida Rocha¹, Carlos Henrique Pires Luiz², Leandro Meneguelli Biondo¹, Carlos Eduardo Portella Sturm¹, Ricardo Abad Meireles Mendonça³, Pedro de Almeida Salles¹, Tatiana de Azevedo Branco Calçada¹, Gustavo Henrique Oliveira¹

1: Brazilian Forest Service / Ministry of the Environment; 2: Pro-Nature Foundation, Brazil; 3: German Agency for International Cooperation - GIZ

Rural environmental registry for traditional peoples and communities: Social participation and the history of enhancement of the module of registration

Gabriela Berbigier Gonçalves Guimarães Grisolia¹, Janaina de Almeida Rocha¹, Elisa de Siqueira², Carlos Portella Sturm¹, Rejane Marques Mendes¹, Lilianna Gomes¹

1: Ministry of Environment, Brazil; 2: GITEC-IGIP GmbH

FNDF Semi-arid Rural Environmental Registry Public Call: Experiences, Results and Perspectives

Lara Souto, Cristina Galvão Alves, Janaína Rocha

Brazilian Forest Service, Brazil

Legitimizing the State or a Grievance?: Land Restitution and Titling in Colombia

Jacob Kopas

Columbia University, United States of America

Land and Growth

Ejaz Ghani

World Bank, United States of America

Property Rights Reforms and Local Economic Development: Evidence from Mexico

Matthew Pecenco, Alain de Janvry, Elisabeth Sadoulet, Marco Gonzalez-Navarro

UC Berkeley, United States of America

Blockchain, Real Estate, and Land Governance

Michael Graglia, Christopher Mellon

New America, United States of America

Blockchain Technology: The Safest Way For Better Land Governance?

Juan Pablo Soliz Molina

Thomson Reuters Bolivia s.r.l.

Evaluating the Use of Blockchain in Land Transactions: An Archival Science Perspective

Victoria Lemieux

The University of British Columbia, Canada

What Should We (Not) Do With Land Administration Data? The Risk Of Privatization And Blockchain`s Code As Law

Jacob Vos

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

Women’s Land Rights as a Pathway to Poverty Reduction A Framework and Review of Available Evidence

Ruth Meinzen-Dick¹, Agnes Quisumbing¹, Cheryl Doss², Sophie Theis¹

1: IFPRI, United States of America; 2: Oxford University

Exploring Gender-Biased Customary Land Tenure Systems in Ghana: Results from Focus Groups with Men and Women Farmers in the Northern Region

Gina Rico Mendez, Kathleen Ragsdale, Mary R. Read-Wahidi

Social Science Research Center at Mississippi State University, United States of America

Ensuring Gender Mainstreaming in the Design and Implementation of REDD + Related Activities

Katharina Siegmann

World Bank, United States of America

Innovations in Securing Land and Resource Rights for the Poor and Women in Customary Settings: the Case of Chamuka Chiefdom, Zambia

Solomon Mkumbwa¹, Morgan Kumwenda², Farirai Shumba³, Helen Nyamweru Ndungu¹, Oumar Sylla¹, Danilo Antonio¹

1: UN-HABITAT/GLTN, Kenya; 2: His Royal High Chief Chamuka IV, Chisamba, Zambia; 3: People’s Process on Housing and Poverty in Zambia

Improved land registration in Plateau State and its impact on land market and government revenue

Solomon Hoomlong¹, Gabriel Arancibia², Chiemeka Ngwu³

1: Plateau Ministry of Lands, Survey and Town Planning, Nigeria; 2: Thomson Reuters, Canada; 3: Teqbridge Ltd., Nigeria

Meeting the Governance Challenges of Agriculture Land Registration in Nigeria

Austen Okumo, Regina Birner

Hohenheim University, Germany

Digital Cadastre with Manual Land Tenure Systems Scale-Up in Ethiopia

EskedarZelalem Mengistu¹, Tigistu G/meskel², Adam Podolcsak¹, Bernd Eversmann¹, Tommi Tenno¹, Tarek Zein³, Yohannes Redda²

1: NIRAS Responsible And Innovative Land Administration(REILA_2) Projec In Ethiopia; 2: Ministry Of Agriculture and Natural Resource Rural Land Administration and Use Directorate; 3: Hanas Luftbild

Best Practice in Land Administration Project Implementation: Challenging Existing Orthodoxies in Customary Land Governance in Ghana

John Bugri

KNUST, Ghana

Enabling Gender-Disaggregated Reporting on Land Ownership and Use: How FAO Collaborates with Partners to Make It Possible

Pietro Gennari, Chiara Brunelli

FAO, Italy

Helping to Establish the Methodology for Country-level Data Collection on Key (Urban) Land Data Globally: The Role of UN Habitat

Aisa Kacyira, Robert Lewis-Lettington, Oumar Sylla

UN-HABITAT, Kenya

Moving SDG indicators 1.4.2. & 5.a.1 to tier I: Why and how

Gero Carletto, Klaus Deininger, Thea Hilhorst, Wael Zakout

World Bank, United States of America

Making Room for Urban Expansion in Colombia

Nicolas Galarza

New York University, United States of America

Making Room for Urban Expansion in Ethiopia

Bizualem Admasu Nesir

Ministry of Urban Development and Housing, Ethiopia

Using Land Value Capture in Transport Oriented Development in Cape Town

Craig John Kesson

City of Cape Town, South Africa

Urban Growth Scenarios: Perspectives from Jordan, Indonesia, Côte d'Ivoire and Mexico

Ricardo Ochoa Sosa, Tania Guerrero Ríos, Carmen Valdez Berriozábal, Guillermo Velasco Rodríguez

CAPSUS S.C.

Evaluating the Impacts of the Dar es Salaam BRT System

Gharad Bryan³, Melanie Morten², Bilal Siddiqi¹

1: World Bank; 2: Stanford University; 3: London School of Economics

Charting new ground: Towards an evidence-based approach to capitalize on Africa's land resources

Klaus Deininger

World Bank, United States of America

Reaping the Dividends of an Improved Land Administration System in Rwanda: A Post-land Tenure Regularisation Reflection

Emmanuel Nkurunziza

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

Improving land taxation in Africa: Practical ways for moving ahead

Riel Franzsen

African Tax Institute, University of Pretoria

Improving Africa's Analytical Capacity on Land

Innocent Matshe

African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), Kenya

Property Tax Reform

Rajul Awasthi

World Bank, United States of America

Land Taxes: An Opportunity to Make Urbanization Self-financing

Michael Blake

International Growth Centre, United Kingdom

The Potential for Taxing Urban Vacant Land in Kampala, Uganda

Astrid Haas, Mihaly Kopanyi

International Growth Centre, Uganda

Harnessing Zambia’s Land Potential

Joseph Minango, Kelvin Chibangula

Ministry of Land and Natural Resources, Zambia

Measuring Geospatial Maturity; a First Step Towards Sensible, Sustainable and Resilient Investment

John David Kedar, Neil Dewfield, James Darvill, Kimberley Worthy

Ordnance Survey, United Kingdom

Spatial Data Infrastructure Diagnostic Tool - Partnerships for Implementation

Rumyana Tonchovska¹, Kathrine Kelm², Peter ter Haar³

1: Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN, Italy; 2: World Bank, USA; 3: Senior Geospatial Consultant

Open Data and Spatial Data Infrastrcuture Develpment in Moldova

Ovdii Maria

Agency for Land Relations and Cadastre of Moldova, Moldova

SERBIAN NSDI DIGITAL PLATFORM: „Collect. Connect. Create.“ — Our words for the future

Darko Vucetic, Borko Draskovic, Nemanja Paunic, Miroslav Hrcan

Republic Geodetic Authority, Serbia

The legal component, one of the key segments for NSDI development in Republic of Macedonia

Sonja Dimova

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

The Challenges of Multi-Level and Multi-Stakeholder Land Tenure Projects - The case of Burundi - Abstract

Irutingabo Jean Pierre, David Betge, Andrew Lippett

ZOA INTERNATIONAL-BURUNDI, Burundi

Contribution Of Pngt2-3 To the Generalization Of The Application Of Law 034-2009 / An On The Burkina Faso Rural Land Regime: Success - Insufficiency And Lessons Learned

Moussa Ouedraogo¹, Issifou Ganou¹, Suleymane Nassa²

1: Observatoire National du Foncier au Burkina Fas; 2: Deuxième Programme National de Gestion des Terroirs

Côte d’Ivoire The Implementation Of The Rural Land Ownership Law

Jean-Philippe Lestang¹, David Loue², Gerard Paillat³, Franck-Yves Dabin^1,3

1: GEOFIT, France; 2: Agence foncière rurale (AFOR).; 3: CETIF

Scaling-up Effective Land Administration in Urban DRC: A Case Study of a Pilot Project in Beni, North Kivu.

Lobo Ngumba Aime¹, Serges Kakule Vutegha¹, Gracien Ahadi Senzeru¹, Kahindo Mwirima Nicole¹, Kyle Hamilton¹, Oumar Sylla², Danilo Antonio², Armand Ndilmbaye², Christol Paluku²

1: UN-Habitat/Global Land Tool Network; 2: Université Chrétienne Bilingue du Congo (UCBC)

Leveraging Big Data to Promote Sustainable Supply Chains: The Case of Paraguay’s Beef Sector

Ryan Sarsfield², Peter Veit², Matt Sommerville¹

1: USAID Tenure and Global Climate Change Project, Tetra Tech; 2: World Resources Institute

Can Consumer-Led Initiatives Reinforce Government Action To Arrest Tropical Deforestation Driven By Industrial Agriculture?

Arthur Blundell

Natural Capital Advisors, United States of America

Multi-level public-private governance arrangements for sustainable palm oil in Indonesia

Pablo Pacheco

Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Indonesia

Are Sustainable Pathways Possible for Oil Palm Development in Latin America?

Colombine Lesage^1,2,3, Laurène Feintrenie^3,4,5

1: ENSAIA, Nancy, France.; 2: Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France.; 3: CIRAD - Forests and Societies research unit, Montpellier, France.; 4: CATIE, Turrialba, Costa Rica.; 5: ICRAF, Lima, Peru.

Examining the Real Costs of Community-led Rights Documentation from USAID’s Experience in Burma and Zambia

Emiko Guthe, Matt Sommerville

USAID Tenure and Global Climate Change Project, Tetra Tech

Mapping Community Land in Mozambique: Opportunities and Challenges for Combining Technology with Good Land Governance

José Monteiro¹, Antonio Inguane¹, Emidio Oliveira¹, Madaleine Weber², David Palomino Valentín²

1: Community Land initiative (iTC); 2: Cadasta Foundation

What do communities want from land reform? A socio-technical exploration of community-led land rights documentation projects

Kate Fairlie¹, Frank Pichel², Serene Ho³

1: Land Equity International, Australia; 2: Cadasta Foundation; 3: KU Leuven

"Rethinking Customary Land Governance, Fiduciary Duties and Development Opportunities form a Real Estate Management Perspective"

Rexford Ahene

LAFAYETTE COLLEGE/ FAO-NRC, United States of America

Enabling Market to Deliver Affordable Urban Land and Housing at Scale: What Can We Learn and Adapt from China to Ethiopia?

Yan Zhang¹, Ambachew Mekonenn², Abebe Zeluel², Peter Ellis¹, Abebaw Alemayehu¹, Isabel Cantada¹, Abuye Aneley²

1: World Bank; 2: The Ministry of Urban Development and Housing

Land Use Problems and Land Management: A Land Inventory Study in Istanbul

Nihat Enver Ulger^1,3, Selcuk Aydemir², Can Iban³, Hakan Akbulut²

1: Avrasya Land Management and Urban Regeneration Strategy Development Center, Istanbul - Turkey; 2: Emlak Konut Real Estate Investment Trust, Turkey; 3: Okan University, Geomatics Engineering Department, Turkey

Spatial Planning Beyond Boundaries

Georg Jahnsen Jahnsen, Felix Knopf, Elke Matthaei, Abhishek Agarwal, Sumana Chatterjee, Tanaya Saha, Shriman Narayan

GIZ, India

Improving Land Management By Introducing The Achievements Gained Through Pilot Projects

Dragana Godjevac Obradovic

Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management, Directorate for Agricultural Land, Serbia

Making Land Consolidation Feasible in the Western Balkans - Establishing a Focal Sub-Regional Expert Hub

Michael Becker

GIZ - Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit, Kosovo

An Evaluation Of Land Consolidation Practices And Impact Assessment Of Projects: A Case Study Of Beyazaltin Village Land Consolidation Project In Eskisehir Province, Turkey

Metin Turker¹, Harun Tanrivermis²

1: General Directorate; 2: Ankara University

Land Consolidation in Kosovo, Constrains and Difficulties

Pranvera Alshiqi Maloku

Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) Gmbh, Kosovo

InteGra Powered PRIDE(TM)s - Resolving the problem of land fragmentation and enhancing crop productivity

Chanchal Pramanik, Srinivasu Pappula, Sudhakara Ganesh, Navin Twarakavi, Ravinkumar S, Richa Hukumchand, Avil Saunshi

Tata Consultancy Services, India

Land Tenure Systems and Urban Land Use: theory, and evidence from Kampala City

Julia Bird, Tony Venables

University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Understanding Housing Consumption Behavior Across The Formal And Informal Land Market Divide: Econometric Estimations And Household Views From Metropolitan Buenos Aires

Cynthia Goytia¹, Robin Rajack²

1: Harvard University and Torcuato Di Tella University, Argentine Republic; 2: Inter American Development Bank

The Brazilian Housing Program - Minha Casa Minha Vida – Effect on Urban Sprawl

Ciro Biderman, Frederico Roman Ramos, Martha Hanae Hiromoto

Fundacao Getulio Vargas - Sao Paulo, Brazil

Housing at the Centre of Urban Policies: The Case of Peru

Emilio Matuk¹, Luis Triveno²

1: 29x55, Peru; 2: World Bank

The Need For Technology And Approaches Of Tomorrow

Cornelis de Zeeuw, Christiaan Lemmen

Kadaster, Netherlands, The

Megatrends Shaping the Future Cadastral Systems

Kirsikka Riekkinen^1,2, Pauliina Krigsholm^2,1

1: Aalto University, Finland; 2: National Land Survey of Finland

Innovations in Land Data Governance: Unstructured Data, NoSQL, Blockchain, and Big Data Analytics Unpacked

Rohan Bennett, Mark Pickering, Jason Sargent

Swinburne Business School, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Future National Geospatial Agencies: Shaping Their Contribution To Society And The Sustainable Development Goals

John David Kedar, Kimberley Worthy, James Darvill, Victoria Giddings

Ordnance Survey, United Kingdom

Women's Land Rights and Food Security in Kenya: Challenges and Opportunities

Muriuki Muriungi¹, Patricia Kameri-Mbote²

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

Women’s Land Rights in Liberia: How can they be Protected and Strengthened in the Land Reform Process?

Justine Ntale Uvuza¹, Jennifer Duncan¹, My-Lan Dodd¹, Izatta Ngabe², Lena Cummings³, Vivian Neal⁴

1: LANDESA, United States; 2: Land Governance Support Activity , Liberia; 3: Women’s NGO Secretariat of Liberia, Liberia; 4: Association of Female Lawyers of Liberia, Liberia

The Effectiveness of a Social Behavior Change Communication (SBCC) Strategy in Changing Social Attitudes on Equal Rights to Property for Women – The Case of Kosovo

Merita Limani, Driton Zeqiri, Don Cuizon

USAID Property Rights Program, Tetra Tech

Customary land tenurein matrilineal societies of Tanzania: Does inheritance matter?Experience from Morogoro rural district

Jenesta Urassa

Ardhi University, Tanzania

After the Title? Building a Multi-Stakeholder Platform in Support of Territorial Governance in Honduras

Roman Alvarez¹, Enrique Pantoja², Fernando Galeana³, Mary Lisbeth Gonzalez²

1: Property Institute; 2: The World Bank; 3: Cornell University

Sustainability Of Land Use And Land Tenure Systems: A Case Study Of Polatli District In Ankara Province, Turkey

Yesi̇m Ali̇efendi̇oglu, Harun Tanrıvermiş

Ankara University

Formalising Land Rental Transactions in Ethiopia – Is Land Certification enough?

Christina Mayr¹, Ignacio Fiestas¹, John Leckie²

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

Securing Customary Land Rights For Development In Namibia: Learning From New Approaches, Opportunities And Social Settings.

Prisca Mandimika¹, Jericho Mulofwa²

1: Ministry of Land Reform, Namibia; 2: Ministry of Land Reform - Project for Communal Land Development.

Opening Remarks

Oumar Sylla

UN-Habitat, Kenya

Guidelines for Impact Evaluation of Land Tenure and Governance Interventions

Jennifer Lisher

Millennium Challenge Corporation, United States of America

Discussant

Heather Huntington

Cloudburst Consulting Group, United States of America

Discussant

Michael O'Sullivan

World Bank, United States of America

Discussant

Caleb Stevens

USAID, United States of America

Discussant

Jolyne Sanjak

Landesa, United States of America

Creating Value to Capture It – Property Rights in Nairobi

Augustine Masinde Khaemba¹, George Arwa²

1: Ministry of Land,Housing and Urban Development, Kenya; 2: Ministry of Lands and Physical Planning, Kenya

Land Value Capture in South Africa: Applicability and Constraints

Rob McGaffin

University of Cape Town, South Africa

Porto Maravilho: Creating Social and Economic Value through Revitalization of Rio de Janeiro’s Industrial Waterfront

Alberto Silva

UNHabitat, Brazil

Improving Coverage In A Challenging Environment: Evidence And Lessons From Kano

Malandi Umar Kura

Kano State Bureau for Land Management

Building a Unified Land Information System for All Tenure Types

Victorien D. Kougblenou

ANDF, Benin

Challenges And Benefits From Integrating Textual And Spatial Data

Oscar Rodríguez Sánchez

Registro Nacional, Costa Rica

From Diagnosis to Action: Using Monitoring Data to Improve Governance

Denys Nizalov¹, Denis Bashlyk²

1: University of Kent/ KEI at KSE, United Kingdom; 2: Stategeocadastre

Real estate registration system in Dubai: leveraging innovation and the impact of data centralization

Sultan Alakraf

Dubai Land Department, United Arab Emirates

The SDG Indicator on Land Degradation Neutrality

Melchiade Bukuru

United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, United States of America

Forests, Trees and Agroforestry: contribution to Land Degradation Neutrality

Robert Nasi

CIFOR, Indonesia

Landscapes and Land Degradation Neutrality

Janet Ranganathan

World Resources Institute, United States of America

The Economics of Land Degradation Neutrality in Asia

Pushpam Kumar

UNEP, Kenya

Discussant

Gregory Scott

United Nations Statistics Division, United States of America

The VGGT and F&G: Versatile Tools for Tenure Governance

Wordsworth Odame Larbi

FAO, Ethiopia

Open Data as a Mechanism of Social Change for Vulnerable Urban Communities

David Palomino², Madaleine Weber², Daniel Cotillas¹, Maria Luisa Zanelli¹

1: Habitat for Humanity; 2: Cadasta

Towards Transparency in Land Ownership: a Methodology to Research Beneficial Land Ownership

Caitlin Pierce², Nick Tagliarino³, Poppea Daniel⁵, Megan MacInnes⁴, Jean Brice Tetka¹, Leon Verstappen³, Annette Maria Jaitner¹

1: Transparency International Secretariat, Germany; 2: Traverse Research; 3: IALTA; 4: Global Witness; 5: Research Consultant

A Global Review of Land Tenure, Climate Vulnerability and Adaptive Capacity

David Mitchell¹, Darryn McEvoy¹, Danilo Antonio²

1: RMIT University, Australia; 2: Land and GLTN Unit, UN-Habitat, Kenya

Drawing on Best Practice to Assess the Geomaturity of a Country’s NSDI Using a Recent Example of the Work Undertaken in Greece

Alkiviadis Lamprou², Dr. Vanessa Lawrence CB^1,4, Georgios Papakyriakopoulos¹, John Schonegevel³

1: The World Bank; 2: Ministry of Environment and Energy, Government of Greece; 3: New Frontiers Ltd; 4: Location International

A Model for Modernizing the Organization of Land Registration Systems

Georgios Papakyriakopoulos¹, Dr. Vanessa Lawrence CB^1,2, John Schonegevel³, Dr. Maria Zifou⁴, Alkiviadis Lamprou⁴

1: The World Bank; 2: Location International; 3: New Frontiers Ltd; 4: Ministry of Environment and Energy, Government of Greece

Understanding Business Planning for the Modernisation of a Land Registration System

Avgerinos Avgerinou – Panagiotou¹, Dr Maria Zifou², Alkiviadis Lamprou², Georgios Papakyriakopoulos¹, Dr Vanessa Lawrence CB^1,3, John Schonegevel⁴

1: World Bank; 2: Ministry of Environment and Energy, Government of Greece; 3: Location International; 4: New Frontiers Ltd

Creating a Strategy for the Organisational Modernisation of a Land Registration System

Dr. Maria Zifou², Alkiviadis Lamprou², Georgios Papakyriakopoulos¹, Avgerinos Avgerinou-Panagiotou¹, Dr. Vanessa Lawrence CB^1,3, John Schonegevel⁴

1: The World Bank; 2: Ministry of Environment and Energy, Government of Greece; 3: Location International; 4: New Frontiers Ltd

Understanding The ‘People Issues’ Of Organisationally Modernising a Land Registration System

Dr Vanessa Lawrence CB^1,3, Dr Maria Zifou², Alkiviadis Lamprou², Georgios Papakyriakopoulos³, Avgerinos Avgerinou – Panagiotou³, John Stokes⁴

1: Location International; 2: Ministry of Environment and Energy, Government of Greece; 3: World Bank; 4: New Frontiers Ltd

From Abundance to Scarcity: Consequences of Large Scale Land Acquisitions in central Mali.

Camilla Toulmin

Lancaster University/IIED, United Kingdom

Bottlenecks and Opportunities to Generate Economic and Environmental Benefits out of Sustainable Forest Plantations in Mozambique

Andre Aquino, Joao Moura

World Bank, Mozambique

Labor Impacts of Large Agricultural Investments: focus on Mozambique, Kenya and Madagascar

Perrine Burnod¹, Ward Anseeuw², Sara Mercandalli³, Aurelien Reys⁴, Markus Giger⁵, Boniface Kiteme⁶, Tsilavo Ralandison⁷

1: French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD) and Malagasy Land Observatory, Madagascar; 2: CIRAD and International Land Coalition (ILC), Rome; 3: CIRAD and University of Pretoria, South Africa; 4: CIRAD, France; 5: Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), University of Bern, Switzerland; 6: CETRAD (Centre for Training and Integrated Research In ASAL Development), Kenya; 7: University of Kyoto, Japan

Legal Claim Making in Large-Scale Land Based Investments – Does it Help Affected Communities?

Annette Schramm

University of Tuebingen, Germany

Mobile Applications for Secure Tenure (MAST) and the Technical Register for Social Tenure (TRUST) – development and applications in Iringa and Mbeya Districts in Tanzania

Tressan Sullivan¹, Malaki Msigwa², Mustapha Issa³, Clive English⁴, Alexander Solovov⁵

1: DAI US; 2: DAI US; 3: DAI US; 4: DAI Europe; 5: DAI US

Strengthening GIS standards to improve monitoring of land indicators for SDGs: Using India as a use case

Pranab Ranjan Choudhury¹, Marcello De Maria^2,3, Laura Meggiolaro²

1: Natural Resources Management Consultants (NRMC), India; 2: Land Portal Foundation, Netherlands; 3: University of Reading, United Kingdom

An Overview Of Innovative Tools For Land Tenure Documentation

Monica Lengoiboni, Christine Richter, Jaap Zevenbergen

ITC, University of Twente, Netherlands, The

Apps and Drones for Better Land Governance

Angela Arnante¹, Rene Sanapo², Jaime Faustino³

1: Foundation for Economic Freedom, Philippines; 2: Foundation for Economic Freedom, Philippines; 3: The Asia Foundation, Philippines

Achieving Urban Spatial justice in South Africa: Context, Reality and the Integrated Urban Development Framework

Michael Sutcliffe, Sue Bannister

City Insight (Pty) Ltd, South Africa

The Concentration Dilemma: Urban-Rural Transition in Metropolitan Area of Chengdu Since Early 2000s

Ting Chen

Future Cities Laboratory, ETH Zurich

Changing rural to urban in extractive territories. Land administration comparing Argentina, Chile, and Peru

Analia Garcia

MIT, United States of America

Using Data in Urban Planning To Decongest The City Of Nairobi: Lessons From Other Cities

Patricia K. Mbote¹, Ian K. Mbote²

1: University of Nairobi, Kenya; 2: Car Design Research Cambridge

Opening remarks

Catalina Marulanda

World Bank, United States of America

Housing Policies to Increase Resilience to Disaster and Climate Related Events in Colombia

Carlos Ariel Cortes Mateus, Luis Miguel Triveño Chan Jan

World Bank, Colombia

Land governance: Public and Private Planning practice for Land readjustment in Peri Urban areas in Ilala, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Nelly John Babere, Ibrahim Ramadhan

Ardhi University, Tanzania

Amaravati Capital City Land Pooling Scheme

Sreedhar Cherukuri², Raghu Kesavan¹, Jon Kher Kaw¹, I. U. B. Reddy¹, Fen Wei¹

1: The World Bank, United States of America; 2: Andhra Pradesh Capital Region Development Authority, India

Land Readjustment: Solving Urban Problems Through Innovative Approach

Felipe Francisco De Souza^1,2, Takeo Ochi¹, Akio Hosono¹

1: The Japan International Cooperation Agency, Japan; 2: The University of Tokyo, Department of Urban Engineering, Japan

Political Trust, Risk Preferences, and Land-Taking Compensation: Evidence from Survey Experiments in China

Meina Cai¹, Pengfei Liu¹, Hui Wang²

1: University of Connecticut, United States of America; 2: Zhejiang University, P.R. China

Introducing and Terminating External Incentives: A Field Experimental Study of Forest Conservation as a Common-Pool Resource Dilemma

Nils Christian Hoenow, Michael Kirk

University of Marburg, Germany

System Dynamics model for preventing land expropriation conflict

Lu Zhang¹, Shukui Tan², Qiaowen Lin³

1: huazhong university of science and tecnhongy, China, People's Republic of; 2: huazhong university of science and tecnhongy, China, People's Republic of; 3: huazhong university of science and tecnhongy, China, People's Republic of

Political Instability and Perceptions of Land Tenure and Governance in Zambia

Ben Ewing

The Cloudburst Group, United States of America

Measuring Citizen Perceptions of Tenure Security: Test Surveys of the Global Property Rights Index (PRIndex) in Tanzania, Colombia and India

Malcolm Childress¹, David Spievack¹, David Varela¹, David Ameyaw²

1: Land Alliance, United States of America; 2: ICED, United States of America

Scrutinizing the Status Quo: Gender-disaggregated Implications of Social and Economic Transformations on Perceived Tenure Security in Mozambique

Hosaena Ghebru¹, Fikirte Girmachew²

1: International Food Policy Research Institute, United States of America; 2: Ethiopian Development Research Institute

Measuring Community Perceptions of Tenure Security: Evidence from Four African Countries

M. Mercedes Stickler¹, Heather Huntington², Ben Ewing²

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

Women, Business and the Law 2018: data that matters for women's property rights

Nayda Almodóvar-Reteguis

The World Bank, United States of America

A Comparative Analysis of Women's Legal Rights to Land Worldwide

Camilla Schloss

Public Prosecutor's Office of Berlin, Germany

Achieving SDG Indicator 5.a.2 in the Western Balkans: Partnerships for Gender Equality in Land Ownership and Control

Margret Vidar¹, Adela Llatja², Naomi Kenney¹, Rumyana Tonchovska¹, Margreet Goelema²

1: FAO; 2: GIZ

Transformative reparations: A mean identify, eliminate and correct preexisting structural inequality on women's access to land

Adriana Catalina Ortiz Serrano, Adriana Catalina Ortiz Serrano

Independant, United States of America

Redesigning Procedures to Encourage Legal Recognition of Informal Relations to Property: The Case of “Informal Inheritance” in Kosovo’s Intergenerational Context

Gent Salihu

USAID Property Rights Program, Tetra Tech

Systematic Land Registration in Rural Areas of Laos – from concept to scale

Julian Christopher Derbidge, Viladeth Sisoulath

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Lao People's Democratic Republic

Tenancy Reform: Restructuring Land Access of Sharecropping System Toward Sustainable Farming Practice in Indonesia.

Sukmo Pinuji

National Land Institute The Ministry of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning, Indonesia

Digitization to Strengthen Land Administration: A Case of Nepal

Laxman Pokhrel

Liberty College, Nepal

Land Governance for Reserved Customary Land

Kelera Gadolo, Sereana Tuisabeto

I Taukei Land Trust Board, Fiji Islands

The experience of registration of agrarian reform settlements in the Rural Environmental Registry (CAR) in Brazil - Results and Outlook

Carlos Eduardo Portella Sturm¹, Raimundo Deusdará¹, Ângelo Ramalho¹, Samuel Campos², Janaina Rocha¹, Leandro Biondo¹, Gustavo Oliveira¹, Gabriela Gonçalves¹, Thaia Cacciamali³, Luiz Miranda¹

1: Serviço Florestal Brasileiro -SFB, Brazil; 2: Universidade Federal de Lavras - UFLA, Brazil; 3: Instituto Nacional de Colonização e Reforma Agrária - INCRA, Brazil

The Rural Environmental Registry System and the Brazilian Rural Governance

Gustavo Oliveira, Carlos Sturm, Janaina Rocha, Bernardo Trovão, Raimundo Deusdará

Brazilian Forest Service, Brazil

Fueling Land Grabbing or Promoting Land Governance? - The Case of the Terra Legal Program in Brazilian Amazon

Rogerio Cabral³, Bettina Kupper², Jose Dumont¹, Robson Disarz¹

1: SERFAL / SEAD / Terra Legal; 2: GIZ; 3: GIZ/GITEC/NEXUCS

Environmental Regularization Programs for Rural Properties and Holdings: a Forest Code strategy for strengthening land governance, expanding native vegetation cover, and sustainability of the rural landscape in Brazil.

Tatiana Calçada¹, Magna Cunha², Janaina Rocha¹, Bernardo Trovão¹, Rejane Mendes¹

1: SFB, Brazil; 2: GIZ, Brazil

Environmental Compliance of Rural Landholdings in Regions of Economic Vulnerability in Brazil - The Case of CAR in The State of Maranhão, Northeast of Brazil

Lilianna Gomes¹, Adolfo Dalla Pria Pereira², Janaína Rocha¹, Rebecca de Araujo Fiore¹, Bernadete Lange³

1: Brazilian Forest Service, Brazil; 2: FUNATURA; 3: The World Bank

Indigenous people, conflicts and land governance in Brazil after the Constitution of 1988: an overview with focus on recent events

Vitor Bukvar Fernandes¹, Delaíde Passos¹, Bastiaan Philip Reydon¹, Guilherme Bergo Leugi²

1: University of Campinas, Brazil; 2: University of South Australia, Australia

Complex Governance for a Complex Forest Code: the Solutions of the Rural Environmental Registry (CAR) in Brazil

Taiguara Alencar¹, Janaína Rocha², Carlos Eduardo Sturm², Raimundo Deusdara²

1: GIZ, Brazil; 2: Brazilian Forest Service - SFB

Afro-Brazilian communities and traditional territories: achievements and barriers to guarantee land rights

Isabelle Alline Lopes Picelli¹, Richard Martins Torsiano²

1: National Institute of Agrarian Reform, Brazil; 2: Food and Agriculture Organization

Land, State and Communities Remnant Quilombolas: As inheritances of the senzala in the 21st century

Delaíde Passos¹, Adâmara Felício¹, Daniella Scarassatti^1,2, Bastiaan Reydon¹

1: UNICAMP, Brazil; 2: Campinas City Hall

Conflict Prevention in the Great Lakes Region: A Case Study of the Agrarian Reform in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

Martin Kiende

Univerisity of Kinshasa, United States of America

Risk and Reconstruction: Assessing the Conditions of Poverty and Landlessness for Internally Displaced People

Bilan Stribling

Columbia University, United States of America

Risks for the peace process in Colombia: the Land Fund and prospects for community and smallholder access to land

Andres Fuerte Posada

OXFAM Colombia, Colombia

The (un)broken Promise of Agroforestry: Case Study of Governance for Improved Fallows in Zambia

Michael Jacobson

Penn State, United States of America

Space Based Monitoring of Wetlands in Support of Sustainable Water Resource and Land Management

Michael Riffler¹, Christina Ludwig¹, Norman Kiesslich¹, Christian Tottrup², Andreas Walli¹

1: GeoVille Information Systems and Data Processing GmbH, Innsbruck, Austria; 2: DHI GRAS, Hørsholm, Denmark

Sustainable Land Management- shielding the agriculture land with flood management and wetlands

Shamsuddin Ahmed

York University - York Centre for Public Policy and Law, Canada

An approach to linking Land governance to Water governance: Botswana case Study

George Thabeng¹, Pako Modiakgotla²

1: Department of water Affairs, Botswana; 2: Department of water Affairs, Botswana

Mexican Land Reforms: Examining Exclusionary Resource Conservation Initiatives

Pablo Hernandez

Hollins University, United States of America

Conservation Mechanisms and Sustainable Communal Land Development: Lessons from Green Investment Initiatives in Laguna San Ignacio, Mexico

James Blair¹, Marisa Quiroz², Amanda Maxwell¹, Anne McEnany², Eduardo Najera³, Miguel Vargas⁴, Fernando Ochoa⁴

1: Natural Resources Defense Council, United States of America; 2: Internation Community Foundation, United States of America; 3: Wildcoast - Costasalvaje; 4: Pronatura Noroeste

Land Tenure And Renewable Energy Systems Linkages: Implications In The Global South

Mohammed Adil Sait¹, Uchendu Eugene Chigbu²

1: University College London, United Kingdom; 2: Technical University of Munich, Germany

Land Ownership: Use of Informal Justice Mechanisms in Resettling of Widows in Kenya

Agnes Rogo

Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA)-Kenya, Kenya

Rigorous Impact Evaluation on Scalable Approaches towards Strengthening Land Governance: Empirical Evidence from Piloting the Gender Evaluation Criteria in Three Districts in Uganda

Samuel Mabikke¹, Oumar Sylla¹, Danilo Antonio¹, Naome Kabanda²

1: UN-Habitat/GLTN, Kenya; 2: Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Uganda

Understanding Gender Dynamics and Institutional Drivers of Land Access in Smallholder Maize Farms of Western Kenya

Dennis Olumeh¹, David Otieno¹, Willis Oluoch-Kosura¹, Rahma Adam²

1: University of Nairobi, Kenya; 2: International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT), Nairobi, Kenya

Using Traditional Conservation Methods For The Sustainable Use Of Riparian Land To Eradicate Feminized Poverty In Zimbabwe

Elizabeth Rutsate

University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe

Women’s Land Rights and Tenure Security in the Context of the SDGs; results of localizing SDGs in Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania

Sami Frestadius

UN Women, Ethiopia

Securing Women’s Land Rights Within The National Land Programme In Madagascar

Mino Harivelo Ramaroson¹, Jean Ousmane Camara², Herilala Axel Fanomezantsoa³, Tiana Razafindrakotohary⁴

1: HUAIROU COMMISSION, United States of America; 2: Ministry in charge of Presidential Projects, Planning and Equipment, Madagascar; 3: Ministry in charge of Presidential Projects, Planning and Equipment, Madagascar; 4: Ministry in charge of Presidential Projects, Planning and Equipment, Madagascar

Women’s Property Rights through the Household Life Cycle: Evidence from Nepal

Rajendra Pradhan², Ruth Meinzen-Dick¹, Sophie Theis¹

1: IFPRI, United States of America; 2: Nepa School, Nepal

Women and Land rights in Brazil and India: A historical and comparative analysis concerning legal framework and social challenges

Ranjana Das¹, Isabelle Lopes Picelli²

1: Oxfam India, India; 2: National Institute of Land Reform, Brazil

A gender-disaggregated Impact of the Pilot Systematic Land Tenure Regularization Program in Nigeria

Hosaena Ghebru¹, Fikirte Girmachew²

1: International Food Policy Research Institute, United States of America; 2: Ethiopian Development Research Institute

'Fundamental Functionings' Of Landowners: Understanding The Relationship Between Land Ownership And Wellbeing Through The Lens Of ‘Capability’

Jyoti Rao

University Of Melbourne, Australia

Traditional Leaders as Moral Authorities: Experimental Evidence from Rural Zambia

Tobias Vorlaufer¹, Thomas Falk², Michael Kirk¹

1: University of Marburg, Germany; 2: International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)

The Strength of the Village: a Community Based Model for Explaining Variation in Farmland Abandonment

Andrew Cartwright, Marija Drobnjakovic

Central European University, Hungary

Customary Land Governance in Zambia: Inertia, Confusion and Corruption

Ephraim Kabunda Munshifwa

Copperbelt University, Zambia

We Don’t Want Land Certificates!—Land Titling and Rural Land Governance in Contemporary China

Jin Zeng

Florida International University, United States of America

Northern Africa Land tenure systems' analysis based approach toward a core conceptual model in capacity building

Moha El-ayachi¹, Eltaib Saeed Mohamed Ganawa², Ousmane Waguf³

1: Department of Geodesy, SGIT,Institute of Agronomy and Veterinary Medecine, Morocco; 2: Geographical and environmental sciences, university of Khartoum, Sudan; 3: University of Nouakchout, Mauritania

Land Reforms in Kenya: Improved Land Tenure Security Motivates Increased Investments and Equity in Kilifi County

Ibrahim Mwathane¹, James Kapanya Nguzo²

1: Land Development and Governance Institute (LDGI), Kenya; 2: County Government of Kilifi, Kenya

Mukono District Land Stakeholder’s Forum: A Multi-Stakeholder Approach To Unlocking Land And Property Related Challenges in Uganda

Stephen Kyakulumbye, Gerald Padde, David Matovu, Jeremiah Sembuya

Uganda Chrisitian University, Uganda

Building Land Markets in Developing Economies

Richard Baldwin¹, Felicity Buckle¹, Gavin Adlington²

1: DAI Europe, United Kingdom; 2: Independent

Improving The Effectiveness Of Land Tenure Programmes Using A Market Systems Approach

John Leckie¹, Christina Mayr², Ignacio Fiestas²

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

Land Management And Land Market In Turkey: Basic Characteristics, An Analysis Of Legal And Institutional Regulations And Evaluation Of Possible Effects On Valuation Studies

Yesi̇m Ali̇efendi̇oglu, Harun Tanrıvermiş, Yunus Emre Kapusuz

Ankara University

“Land as a Driver of Inequality: The Effect of Land Use and Security Trends on the Poor and Vulnerable in Uganda”

Harriet Mbabazi¹, Patience Akumu², Jonathan Ochom³, Charles Opiyo⁴, Stephanie Burgos⁵, Fred Muhumuza⁶, Rebecca Kyomugisha⁷

1: Oxfam Uganda; 2: Oxfam Uganda; 3: Oxfam Uganda; 4: Oxfam Uganda; 5: Oxfam America; 6: Makerere University, Kampala; 7: Oxfam Uganda

Does Food Insecurity In Ontario Vary By Remoteness? Implications For Canadian Policy

Alexander Scholz, Brady James Deaton

University of Guelph, Canada

Assessment of Agricultural Land Reform in Thailand Using The Land Governance Assessment Framework

Nattapon Khanmad¹, Dimo Todorovski²

1: Agricultural Land Reform Office, Thailand; 2: University of Twente, the Netherlands

The Resolution of Land Conflicts by the Strategy of the Solidarity Economy and the Social Mediation

Aboubakari Sylla

Cabinet de Consultance Internationale en Economie Sociale et Solidaire, Côte d'Ivoire

Reorienting Political Economy of Inclusive Agrarian Transformation in Nepal

Purna B. Nepali^1,3, Deborah S. Rogers², Joseph K. Assan³

1: Fulbright Fellow, Heller School for Social Policy & Management, Brandeis University, USA; 2: President, IfE (Initiative for Equality) & Affiliated Researcher, Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, Stanford University, USA; 3: Assistant Prof. Heller School for Social Policy & Management, Brandeis University, USA

A Concern For The Right of The Youth To Agricultural Land

Andrus Nnaemeka Ukaejiofo

Centre for Land Rights and Environmental Development (CLARED), Nigeria

Land Reforms In Nigeria: Issues, Problems And Solutions

Biyi Ismail, Oladele Ewulo, Adedeji Adewale

Ogun State Buareau of Lands and Survey, Nigeria

The Broad Powers of State Governors under the Land Use Act, 1978 and Land Governance in Nigeria.

Pat Onukwuli

University of Bolton, United Kingdom, United Kingdom

Nigerian Land Use Act 1978 and the Place of Urban Poor in Cities’ Development Plan

Gbenekanu Ledornu Mpigi

University Collede London, United Kingdom

Baseline Evaluation Findings from USAID’s Responsible Land-based Investment Pilot in Mozambique

Lauren Persha¹, Jacob Patterson-Stein², Sarah Lowery³

1: NORC at the University of Chicago, United States of America; 2: Management Systems International; 3: United States Agency for International Development

Evidence to Inform Liberia’s Land Policy: Evaluation Findings from Namati’s Community Land Protection Program

Kate Marple-Cantrell¹, Heather Huntington¹, Alexandra Hartman²

1: The Cloudburst Group, United States of America; 2: University College London, Political Science

Scrutinizing the status quo: Rural Transformation and Land Tenure Security in Nigeria

Fikirte Girmachew Abeje¹, Hosaena Ghebru²

1: Ethiopian Development Research Institute, Ethiopia; 2: International Food Policy Research Institute

Game Theoretic Framework For Compulsory Acquisition

Jyoti Rao

University Of Melbourne, Australia

How farmland registration and certification affect farmers’ productive investments: evidence from China’s apple growers

Xingguang Li, Jundi Liu, Xuexi Huo

College of Economy and Management,Northwest Agriculture and Forest University, China, People's Republic of

Addressing the "How much?" in Land Use Planning: A Population And Consumption-based Model Approach to Estimating Future Demand for Land.

Johannes Pirker^1,5, Aline Mosnier¹, James Acworth², Harrison Ajebe Nnoko Ngaage³, Pascal Douard⁴, Thomas Sembres⁴

1: IIASA; 2: Independent Consultant; 3: Ajemalebu Self Help (AJESH), Cameroon; 4: EU REDD Facility; 5: KU Leuven, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences

A Pessimist is an Optimist that Knows Geography

Emilio Matuk¹, Luis Triveno²

1: 29x55; 2: World Bank

Looking at economic trade-offs from edible insects and bee keeping to carbon balances in African woodlands

Saliou Niassy, Tobias Landmann

International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Kenya

Analysis of Fragmented Agricultural Land Size and Its Effects on The Productivity and Farm Income of Small Holder Farmers in Amhara National Regional State, Ethiopia

Melese Haile¹, Muluadam Getaneh Limenih²

1: Amhara National Regional State of Rural Land Adminstration and Use Bureau, Addis Ababa,Ethiopia; 2: Ethiopian Civil Service University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

The Natural Resource Curse and Women

Anja Tolonen, Sarah Baum

Barnard College, Columbia University, United States of America

Gender, Resource Rights, and the Role of Customary Authorities: A Multi-Site Study of Women’s Empowerment in Customary Settings

Heather Huntington, Adi Greif, Ben Ewing

Cloudburst Consulting Group, United States of America

The Role of Property Rights in Technology Adoption: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial

Heather Huntington, Ajay Shenoy

University of California, Santa Cruz, United States of America