Conference Agenda

Colombia: The private sector’s roles in land tenure formalization in post-conflict areas

Javier Perez-Burgos

Ministerio de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural, Colombia

Modernizing land information systems in Panama

Francisco Artola

Ministry of the presidency, Panama

Honduras: improving registry and cadastral service delivery through public and private outsourcing

Roman Alvarez

Instituto de la Propiedad, Honduras

Contracting and direct implementation in systematic land formalization. 25 years of experience in Peru.

Victor Endo

Global Land Alliance, Peru

Using land readjustment and FAR bonuses to create high-density development in fringe areas of fast growing cities

Jay Mittal

Auburn University, Auburn, AL, United States of America

Surrender and re-alienation of land in Johor, Malaysia: a planning tool and mechanism for sustainable property development

Rohani Azmi¹, Suliman Suhailizan², Hasbullah Mohd Halim², Ariff Amirul Haffiz², Sahid Mohd Shahrizan³, Suratman Robiah⁴, Samsudin Salfarina⁴

¹Johor State Secretary, Malaysia; ²Johor Land and Mines Department, Malaysia; ³Johor State Secretary Incorporation, Malaysia; ⁴Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia

Land Assembly through Land Pooling Scheme in Amaravati, Challenges and land value capture for greenfield city development

Ramamanohara Rao Vippagunta, Sastry Siva Rama Krishna Jyosyula, Sreedhar Cherukury, Sidharth Ganesh

Andhra Pradesh Capital Region Development Authority (APCRDA), India

Community-based feedback to improve land pooling for planned urbanization: a case study of Thimphu, Bhutan

Katie Farrin

Asian Development Bank, Philippines

Digital street: Exploring the future of land registration through new technologies

John Abbott, Lauren Tombs, Paul Batterham

HM Land Registry, United Kingdom

Preventive administration of justice – an economic catalyzer for the future?! – an analysis of the economic relevance of reliable and transparent public registers –

Rolf Knieper

Bundesnotarkammer/UINL

How to introduce a complete new land registry system in a rapid changing world

Jacob Vos

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

Land Administration and the role of a Land Registrar Network

Mark Reichardt, Trevor Taylor

The Open Geospatial Consortium, United States of America

Strengthening traditional institutions of nomadic herders for sustainable management of public rangelands in Mongolia

Enkhamgalan Tseelei¹, Gankhuyag Nyam-ochir¹, Erdenechuluun Tumur²

¹National Federation of Pasture user groups of herders, Mongolia; ²National University of Agriculture, Mongolia

Landscape approach for addressing land use conflicts in pastoral areas: the case of Tanzania

Stephen Nindi¹, Victor Mwita², Deus Kalenzi³, Isaack Luambano³, Fiona Flintan³

¹Ministry of Lands, Housing and Human Settlements Development, Tanzania; ²Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries; ³International Livestock Research Institute

Emerging forms of land market participation and implications on pastoralists’ livelihoods in Kenya

Linet Rutoh¹, David Jakinda Otieno¹, Willis-Oluoch Kosura¹, Stephen Mureithi¹, Gert Nyberg²

¹The University of Nairobi, Kenya; ²Department of Forest Ecology and Management, SLU, Sweden

Securing land rights for marginalized communities - Experience from working with Pastoralist, hunter and gathers in Tanzania

Naomi Shadrack Mwaiponya, Amina Ndiko

OXFAM, Tanzania

High delinquency rates in Brazil’s Minha Casa Minha Vida housing program: Possible causes and necessary reforms

Arthur Acolin¹, Marja Hoek-Smit², Claudia Magalhães Eloy³

¹University of Washington, United States of America; ²University of Pennsylvania, United States of America; ³Independent, Brazil

Backyarding: theory and evidence for South Africa

Jan Brueckner¹, Claus Rabe², Harris Selod³

¹University of California, Irvine, United States of America; ²Independent consultant, South Africa; ³World Bank, United States of America

Impact Evaluations of Informal Settlements Upgrading Interventions: Evidence assessment and new topics for research.

Cynthia Goytia¹, Guadalupe Dorna²

¹Harvard University and Torcuato Di Tella University, Argentina; ²Torcuato Di Tella University, Argentina

Measuring housing deprivations in India: an alternative approach to slum enumeration

Amit Patel¹, Phoram Shah²

¹University of Massachusetts Boston, United States of America; ²The World Bank Group, United States of America

Prindex: putting global tenure insecurity into perspective with results from 33 country surveys in 2018

Malcolm Childress¹, David Spievack¹, Anna Locke², Joseph Feyertag², Soumya Chattopadhyay²

¹Global Land Alliance, United States of America; ²ODI, United Kingdom

Perceived tenure insecurity among renters and its implications for ongoing urbanisation

Anna Locke¹, Joseph Feyertag¹, Malcolm Childress², David Spievack², Soumya Chattopadhyay¹

¹Overseas Development Institute, United Kingdom; ²Global Land Alliance, United States of America

Indigenous data sovereignty

Pyrou Chung

EWMI-Open Development Initiative, Myanmar

National land observatories: a tool for transparency, accountability, and informed decision making over land for all

Grislain Quentin¹, Anseeuw Ward², Burnod Perrine³, Bourgoin Jérémy⁴, Giger Markus⁵, Hershaw Eva⁶, Ka Ibrahima⁷

¹International Land Coalition, Senegal; ²CIRAD / International Land Coalition, Italy; ³CIRAD / Observatoire du foncier à Madagascar; ⁴CIRAD / ISRA-BAME; ⁵Centre for Development and Environment; ⁶International Land Coalition, Italy; ⁷IPAR, Senegal

Urban planning orientation tools implementation in Bamako District

Founemakan Sissoko

University of Law and Political Science of Bamako, Mali

Urban planning and land shortcoming in Morocco: Aspects of injustice and perspectives

Abdelwahed El Idrissi¹, Ahmed Maliki², Moha El Ayachi³, Khalid Yousfi⁴

¹National Institute of Urban Planning, Morocco; ²University Qadi ayyad, Morocco; ³Institute of agronomy and Veterinary Medicine, Morocco; ⁴National Council of Licensed Surveyors, Morocco

Urban planning and land issues in the city of Antananarivo

Nancy Rambao Andrianarisoa Sp. Andriamisandratsoa

Ministry of Regional Development, Building, Housing and Public Works - Madagascar

Assessing suitability and acceptability of development plans and town planning schemes in small and medium town: a case of Gujarat

Priyanshu Sharma

CEPT University, India

Addressing fuzzy boundaries in community delimitations for systematic cadaster in Mozambique

João Carrilho¹, Marisa Balas², Mario Marques³, Zileque Macate³, Christiaan Lemmen⁴

¹National Directorate of Lands, Mozambique; ²EXI, Lda, Mozambique; ³Verde Azul, Lda, Mozambique; ⁴Kadaster, The Netherlands

Moving from debate to implementation: Opportunities for Community Land Registration in Kenya

Brian Gideon Washe Kazungu, Justus Wabwire Ogollah Wambayi

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Kenya

“Grazing agreements: negotiated resource access and conflict mediation at the private property-common property nexus in Kenya’s rangelands”

Christopher Wade

Independent Consultant, United States of America

Social and institutional innovation in land reform: local land charters in Burkina

Hubert Marie Gerard Ouedraogo

DID international, Burkina Faso

Practical guide for the creation and management of conservation space

Douglas Steinberg¹, Bala W. Sanou², Fako Bruno Ouattara², Brook Johnson², Amber Lee James¹, Caroline Plançon-Rodriguez³

¹National Cooperative Business Association CLUSA International, United States of America; ²Independent Consultant, Burkina Faso; ³World Bank, United States of America

Development of a practical guide to support local actors in the development and management of conservation areas in the context of REDD+

Amber Lee James, Bala Wenceslas Sanou, Fako Bruno Ouattara

NCBA CLUSA International, United States of America

Rethinking land development and offset mechanisms in cambodia

Alexander Marx, Ratana Pen

Heinrich Boell Foundation, Cambodia

Environmental justice in the REDD+ frontier: indigenous experiences from the scholarly literature and proposals for a way forward

Juan Pablo Sarmiento Barletti, Anne Larson

Center for International Forestry Research, Peru

How the climate protection strengthens the indigenous territories in the Amazon: The REDD Early Movers Program (REM) in Mato Grosso - Brazil

Taiguara Alencar¹, Renata Oliveira Costa¹, Eliane Lima², Deroni Mendes³

¹GIZ, Brazil; ²FEPOIMT, Brazil; ³ICV, Brazil

Peri-urban land governance: understanding conflicting and competing interests for peri-urban land in Ethiopia

Achamyeleh Gashu Adam

Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia

The policy incompatibility nexus between urban expansion, land use and land value in Nepal: the case of Pokhara metropolitan city

Indra Prasad Tiwari

Pokhara University, Nepal

Urban expansion and the emergence of informal land markets in Namibia's communal areas

Romie Nghitevelekwa

University of Namibia, Namibia

Who owns the land? Legal pluralism and conflicts over land rights in Ghana

Anatoli Ignatov

Appalachian State University, United States of America

Research on access and use of geographic information in Moldova

Maria Ovdii¹, Elena Busch²

¹Agency for Land Relations and Cadastre of Moldova, Moldova; ²Kartverket - Norwegian Mapping Authority, Norway

UN Integrated Geospatial Information Framework towards achieving the 2030 Agenda – from global to national. Guyana experience.

Rumyana Tonchovska¹, Trevor Benn², Andrew Coote³

¹UNFAO, Italy; ²Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission, Guyana; ³ConsultingWhere Ltd., United Kingdom

Integration of Crowdsourcing and digital platform of National Spatial Data Infrastructure for efficient decision-making

Borko Draskovic, Darko Vucetic

Republic Geodetic Authority, Serbia

Additional considerations for the successful implementation of a CORS GNSS Network in Developing Countries

Nicolas De Moegen

Leica Geosystems, France

Land rights protection in the pulp and paper production system

Carolina Torres Graca, Decio Zylbersztajn

University of São Paulo, Brazil

Land acquisition in Malaysia: Policy context and praxis for oil and gas hub project in Eastern Johor.

Rohani Azmi¹, Sahid Mohd Shahrizan², Hasbullah Mohd Halim³, Suliman Suhailizan³, Ariff Amirul Haffiz³, Samsudin Salfarina⁴, Suratman Robiah⁴

¹Johor State Secretary, Malaysia; ²Johor State Secretary Incorporation, Malaysia; ³Johor Land and Mines Department, Malaysia; ⁴Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia

LSLA in Mozambique: impact on rural and urban communities

R. Wanjiku Kiambo, 1Alda Salamao, Issufo Tankar, Samanta Remane

Centro Terra Viva, Mozambique

Beyond climate change: how tenure reform aggravated grassland degradation in north china

Xingyue Zhang¹, Shuhao Tan²

¹University of California Davis, United States of America; ²Renmin University of China, China

Unrecognized opportunities for pastoral tenure: Re-framing variability, mobility, and flexibility

Kramer Gillin

University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States of America

An exploratory sequential mixed methods approach to understanding the correlation of land use regulations on residential property values in Windhoek, Namibia

Sam M. Mwando

Namibia University of Science and Technology, Namibia

Do land rental markets contribute to efficient land allocations? Ukrainian experience

Vasyl Kvartiuk, Eduard Bukin, Thomas Herzfeld

Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), Germany

Implications of land market imperfections on policy design

Dan Tavrov, Oleg Nivievskyi

Kyiv School of Economics, Ukraine

Land market institutions and agricultural productivity in Ukraine

Roman Koshovnyk, Oleg Nivievskyi

Kyiv School of Economics, Ukraine

Opportunities and challenges of planning to provide tenure security to existing dwellers and ensure effective service delivery in the course of urban expansion

Peris Korir

Ministry of Land and Physical Planning, Kenya

Applying Simplified planning to facilitate title issuance in Lusaka

Muchimba Muvombo, Alex Mwansa

City Hall Lusaka, Zambia

Scope for simplifying planning procedures in Zimbabwe

Hosiah Chisango

Harare City Municipality, Zimbabwe

Addressing physical urban planning to speed up tenure regularization

Emmanuel Nkurunziza

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

Modern technology in land administration - a call for governance and structuring data in view of privatising land administration processes

Jacob Vos

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

The Emirates` (legal) framework and governance model for using emerging technologies in Land Administration

Khalifa Alsuwaidi, Mureed Mustapha

Dubai Land Department, United Arab Emirates

Digital assets & data to be published on a blockchain / What should we do (or not do) with the land administration data?

Jona Van Leeuwen

Union Internationale des Huissiers de Justice (UIHJ), Netherlands

The Irish challenges to be prepared for future Land Registry

Liz Pope

Property Registration Authority, Ireland

British Columbia's land titles: private, public or somewhere in-between?

Connie Fair, Carlos MacDonald

Land Title & Survey Authority of British Columbia, Canada

Blockchain property titles and land use recording – is it only about trust, or is there space for compliance and enforcement?

Rebecca Leshinsky

RMIT University, Australia

Smart contracts and land administration: a new framework for property conveyance

Todd Miller¹, Al-Karim Kara², Rohan Bennett³

¹ChromaWay, Sweden and United States of America; ²Land Title and Survey Authority, British Columbia, Canada; ³Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia

Blockchain for Land Administration: Smart Land Registries - a tangible model seeking value for all parties

David Stow¹, Peter Shaw², Richard Nash³

¹Ordnance Survey, United Kingdom; ²Trimble Land Administration Solutions Group, USA; ³IBM, United Kingdom

Catalyzing innovation: Dubai real estate blockchain

Khalifa Alsuwaidi

Dubai Land Department, United Arab Emirates

An example of the use of the Blockchain by the French Notariat: enforceable copies

Lionel Galliez

International Union of Notaries (UINL), France

Evaluation results of a program aimed at reducing property grabbing among widows in Uganda

Andee Parks, Shawn Kohl, Jessica Kyle, Claire Wilkinson

International Justice Mission

Women's tenure rights across the rural urban continuum: implications for a gender responsive urban land reform in Namibia.

Prisca Mandimika¹, Thomas Haenert²

¹Ministry of Land Reform, Namibia; ²GIZ Office Namibia

Community land titling: a contextual analysis of women’s land rights in Kenya

Erin Kitchell, Rachael Knight, Jaron Vogelsang

Namati, United States of America

Innovations to secure women's land rights and build resilience

Mino Harivelo Ramaroson¹, Gaynor Paradza¹, Birte Scholz¹, Frances Birungi²

¹Huairou Commission, United States of America; ²UCOBAC, Uganda

Land transactions in the rural-urban fringes of Dar es Salaam and Nairobi: driving forces, stakeholders and challenges for land governance

Sina Schlimmer

Sciences Po Bordeaux, France

Land market determinants and outcomes in Rwanda: an econometric analysis

Charles Mulindabigwi Ruhara¹, Richard Baldwin², Sam Biraro³, Bernis Byamukama⁴

¹University of Rwanda, Rwanda; ²iLand Consulting; ³RLMUA; ⁴DFID

How horizontal integration affects transaction costs of rural collective construction land market? An empirical analysis in Nanhai District, Guangdong Province, China

Anlu Zhang, Xiangxiang Xie, Peng Bin

Huazhong Agricultural University, China, People's Republic of

Zambia’s Land Policy formulation pitfalls-points of divergence

Emmanuel Tembo, Veronica Mwiche

Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources, Zambia

Demarcation of traditional land management areas in Malawi

Misheck Coco Longwe, Dr Janet L. Banda, Julias B. Chisi, Devie B. Chilonga

Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Malawi

The Namibian 2nd National Land Conference has passed, how the resolutions taken will influence the politics and reluctance to register tenure rights in the Kavango West and Kavango East regions.

Petrus Canisius Nangolo

Ministry of Land Reform, Namibia

Land rights as an imperative for sustainable land and resources management in Kenya.

Leonard Omullo

National Land Commission, Kenya

Spatial planning, urban expansion and land use conversion: a study on urban form of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Thai Son Pham, Truc Quynh Doan

Vietnamese-German University, Vietnam

Exploring options for leaseholds in the Mukuru special planning area

Smith Ouma¹, Jane Weru², Emily Kinama³

¹Cardiff University, United Kingdom; ²Akiba Mashinani Trust, Kenya; ³Katiba Institute, Nairobi

Aligning land use policies to community vision in regulating land beyond urban: an initiative in Odisha, India

Felix Knopf, Sumana Chatterjee

Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, India

Spatial Planning as an instrument for the sustainability of investment and efficient provision of services - Comayagua Case

Roman Alvarez¹, Enrique Pantoja², Carlos Miranda³, Alain Paz¹

¹Property Institute, Honduras; ²World Bank, United Stated; ³Comayagua, Honduras

Understanding multiplicity of urban governance and planning regulations for a metropolitan region with focus on land and private development – Case study NCR – Delhi, India

Sneha Thusoo, Tetsuo Kidokoro, Fumihiko Seta

University of Tokyo, Japan

Wrong-Headed policies in the name of the poor: Case of Mumbai’s Cessed-Buildings

Abhay Pethe, Rashmi Sharma

Mumbai School of Economics and Public Policy (MSE-PP), University of Mumbai, India

Community resource mobilization for informal settlements regularization: impact of private community partnership in Tanzania

Edward Kinabo, Renny Chiwa, Pamela Maro, Alloyce Nyaisa

Human Settlements Action (HUSEA) Company Limited, Tanzania

Multi-stakeholder forums as innovation for natural resource management? Results from a Realist Synthesis Review of the scholarly literature

Anne Larson¹, Juan Pablo Sarmiento Barletti¹, Christopher Hewlitt², Deborah Delgado³

¹CIFOR, Peru; ²University of Maryland, College Park, United States of America; ³PUCP, Peru

Examining relationships in forest governance quality: Insights from forest frontier communities in Zambia´s Miombo ecoregion

Hellen Nansikombi¹, Richard Fischer¹, Gillian Kabwe², Sven Günter¹

¹Thünen Institute of International Forestry and Forest Economics, Hamburg, Germany; ²Copperbelt University, Kitwe, Zambia

Land Tenure Regularization in the Brazilian Amazon: perspectives on identifying social, economic and environmental variables for assessing its impacts

Gabriela C P Savian¹, Marcelo C C Stabile¹, Paulo R S Moutinho¹, Elisa de Siqueira², Gabriela Russo³, João Paulo Ribeiro¹, Vivian Ribeiro¹, Daniel S Silva¹, Sylvia Mitraud¹, Jarlene Gomes¹, Alcilene Cardoso¹, Jorge Espinoza⁴, Rogerio Cabral⁴, Díni L Silveira², Robson Disarz⁵, João Paulo Mastrangelo⁶, Bastiaan Reydon⁶, Gabriel P Siqueira⁶

¹Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM); ²Consulting for Sustainable Development GITEC-IGIP GmbH; ³Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Amsterdam; ⁴Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH; ⁵National Colonization and Agrarian Reform Institute (INCRA); ⁶Universidade de Campinas (Unicamp)

Local perception of indigenous titling programs in the Peruvian Amazon

Peter Cronkleton, Anne Larson

Center for International Forestry Research, Peru

Governance structures of native forests' management policy in North Argentina: the role of policy forums in mediating between conservation and production

Carla Inguaggiato¹, Maurice Tschopp¹, Graziano Michele Ceddia¹, Dimitris Christodopolous^2,3

¹University of Bern, Switzerland; ²Modul University, Austria; ³Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh

Social and human rights impact assessment for development project within Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Isaac Daniels

Sahmakum Teang Tnaut, Cambodia

The right of use on non-awarding state lands, an innovative tool for legal certainty regarding land tenure.

Elkin Caropresse, Margarita Varon

COLOMBIA RURAL SAS, Colombia

Stimulus for land grabbing and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

Brenda Brito¹, Paulo Barreto¹, Amintas Brandão Jr^1,2, Sara Baima¹, Pedro Henrique Gomes¹

¹Imazon, Brazil; ²University of Wisconsin, United States of America

Allocation of public land and the terra legal regularization program in the Brazilian Amazon

Bastiaan Reydon¹, Gabriel Pansani¹, Otavio Moreira², Marcus Nascimento², Jorge Espinoza³, Rogerio Cabral⁴, Elisa de Siqueira⁵

¹Universidade Estadual de Campinas; ²SERFAL, Brazil; ³GIZ, Brazil; ⁴Nexucs; ⁵GITEC-IGIP GmbH

Land registration innovation and decentralised administrative reform: Success stories from the State of Johor, Malaysia

Rohani Azmi¹, Ariff Amirul Haffiz², Hasbullah Mohd Halim², Suliman Suhailizan², Sahid Mohd Shahrizan³, Samsudin Salfarina⁴, Suratman Robiah⁴

¹Johor State Secretary, Malaysia; ²Johor Land and Mines Department, Malaysia; ³Johor State Secretary Incorporation, Malaysia; ⁴Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia

Land registration authority's linkages through the land titling computerization project

Robert Nomar Leyretana

Land Registration Authority, Philippines

A step to grow collateral markets through one window

Faiz Faiz-ul-Hassan, Saqib Khalid Rehman, Usman Ahmad

Punjab Land Records Authority, Government of Punjab, Pakistan

Interoperability and land administration in Nepal

Ram Datta Bhatta, Gokarnamani Duwadee

Department of Land Management & Archive, Nepal

Registering deeds in Delhi: challenges, innovations and prospects

Deepika Jha, Amlanjyoti Goswami

Indian Institute for Human Settlements, India

Doomed to fail? Why some land-based investment projects fail and others succeed

Kerstin Nolte

Leibniz University Hannover, Germany

Why we need a human right to land – empirical evidence from large-scale land investment deals in Sierra Leone and the Philippines

Annette Schramm

University of Tuebingen, Germany

When good innovations go bad

Moe Odele

Stratigos Consulting, United Arab Emirates

Governance challenges in sub-Saharan Africa: the case of Land Guards and land protection in Ghana

David Kwasi Bansah

Ghana Revenue Authority, Ghana

Assessing institutional governance in balancing food production and environmental protection in urban wetlands of Kigali/Rwanda and tropical Kilombero floodplain/Tanzania. A comparative analysis

John Kalisa

World Bank Group, Rwanda

Growth effects of banking development on agriculture and industrial GDP in Sub-Saharan Africa

Ayine Nigo

University of Westminster, United Kingdom

Land related human rights in Pakistan: improving land tenancy as a pathway for agriculture development and food security

Marianna Bicchieri

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

Mapping for Peace and Prosperity: Applying participatory mapping in conflict-affected settings.

David Betge¹, Anne Girardin², Madaleine Weber²

¹ZOA, Netherlands, The; ²Cadasta Foundation, United States

Protecting rights to clan-based land in Acholi, Northern Uganda: Follow-up report on a research project of the Joint Acholi Sub-Region Leaders’ Forum (JASLF) and Trόcaire

Ronald Atkinson

University of South Carolina, United States of America

Flexible land information system as driver for change, peace and development: The case of post conflict DRC

Solomon Njogu¹, Lobo Ngumba², Serge Vutegha², Danilo Antonio³, John Gitau³, Christol Paluku³, Oumar Sylla³

¹Private Consultant, Kenya; ²Christian Bilingual University Democratic Republic of Congo; ³Global Land Tool Network/ UN Habitat, Kenya

Putting forest communities on the map: Participatory land-use planning in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Joseph George Eisen, Patrick Epie, Ines Ayari, Massimiliano Rossi

Rainforest Foundation UK, United Kingdom

Expanding urban land access and housing in Ethiopia

H.E. Jantirar Abay Yigzaw

Ministry of Urban Development and Construction, Ethiopia

Land as a key enabler for delivering affordable housing in Kenya

Charles Mwaura

Ministry of Transport, Infrastructure, Housing and Urban Development

‘Chile Propietario’ program to regularize informal properties

Alejandra Bravo Hidalgo

Ministry of National Assets, Chile

Setting the scene

Wael Zakout

World Bank, United States of America

Discussant

Ammar Alhamadi

Dubai Land Department, United Arab Emirates

Discussant

Muhamad Alrajhi

Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs, Saudi Arabia

Discussant

Georges Maarrawi

Ministry of Finance, Lebanon (Lebanese Republic)

Discussant

Mohamedsalih Baher

darfur land commission, Sudan

Discussant

Moha El-ayachi

Institute of Agronomy and Veterinary Medicine, NELGA NA Coordinator, Morocco

Discussant

Musa Shkarnh

Land & Water Settlement Commission, Palestinian Territories

Discussant

Fritz Jung

Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany

Discussant

Chris Penrose Buckley

DFID, United Kingdom

Conclusions and next steps

Wael Zakout¹, Oumar Sylla²

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

Revisiting the farm size-productivity relationship based on a relatively wide range of farm sizes: evidence from Kenya

Milu Muyanga, Thomas S. Jayne

Michigan State University, United States of America

Does mechanization reverse the farm-size productivity relationship? Evidence from Ethiopia

Daniel Ayalew Ali, Klaus Deininger, Sinafikeh Gemessa

World Bank, United States of America

Can large farm spillovers foster smallholders structural transformation? Evidence from Zambia

Daniel Ali¹, Antony Chapoto², Klaus Deininger¹, Yuanyuan Yi¹

¹World Bank, United States of America; ²IAPRI

Does sample truncation affect assess the inverse farm size-productivity relationship? Evidence from Malawi

Klaus Deininger¹, Fang Xia², Daniel Ali¹

¹World Bank, United States of America; ²University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, China, People's Republic of

Large-scale land acquisition monitoring with high resolution imagery retrieval and profiling in the ASAP platform

Felix Rembold¹, Guido Lemoine¹, Matthias Hack², Christof Althoff³, Patrick Griffiths⁴, Ferdinando Urbano¹, Gabor Csak¹

¹Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Italy; ²Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit, Germany; ³GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Germany; ⁴European Space Agency, United States of America

Geospatial big data platform for water for all in Indus basin

Ather Ashraf¹, Muhammad Abid Bodla², Ijaz-ul-Hassan Kashif³, Ch. Muhammad Ali Nazir⁴

¹University of Punjab, Pakistan; ²Member Water, Planning and Development Department, Govt of Punjab, India; ³Executive Engineer, Irrigation department, Govt of Punjab, India; ⁴Assistant Chief (Coordination), Planning and Development Department, Govt of Punjab, India

Realtime digital soil fertility data for fact-based fertilizer selection by smallholder farmers

Christy van Beek^1,2, Sally Musungu², Rob Beens¹, Angelique van Helvoort¹

¹AgroCares, Netherlands, The; ²SoilCares Foundation, The Netherlands

New ways to use remote sensing based phenology and machine learning for mapping irrigated and rainfed agriculture in Africa

Tobias Landmann¹, Natalie Cornish¹, David Eidmann², Jonas Franke¹, Stefan Siebert³

¹Remote Sensing Solutions GmbH, Germany; ²Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany; ³University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany

Use of Remote sensing technology in small holder supply chains in Asia

Suparna Jain, Harsh Vivek, Rajpal Singh, Ernest Bethe, Bas Rozemuller, Rahmad Syakib, Krishna Kumar

International Finance Corporation, India

Implementing Uganda's gender strategy on land through issuance of certificates of customary ownership : A case of Kabale and Adjumani districts in Uganda

Naome Justine Kabanda¹, Henry Harrison Irumba¹, Sylla Oumar², Simon Peter Mwesigye², Danilo Antonio²

¹Ministry of Lands, Housing, and Urban Development, Uganda; ²UN-Habitat/Global Land Tool Network, Kenya

When joint ownership is not sufficient to ensure joint registration: Lessons from Cabo Verde

Elisa Scalise¹, Michelle Adato², Naomi Cassirer²

¹Resource Equity, United States of America; ²Millennium Challenge Corporation, United States of America

Inclusive and gender-aware participatory land registration in Indonesia

Simon Ulvund¹, Eva Maria Unger², Chrit Lemmen², Christelle van den Berg², Tjeerd Wits¹, Resti Diah Utami¹, Hanhan Lukman³

¹Meridia, The Netherlands; ²Kadaster International, The Netherlands; ³ATR / BPN, Indonesia

Promoting women’s right to land inheritance through agriculture incentivization

Rene Claude Niyonkuru¹, Louis Marie Nindorera²

¹Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium; ²Independent Consultant

Storytelling: a powerful strategy to increase women’s access to land/property rights in Uganda and beyond

Judith Hermanson¹, Natalie R Gill¹, Sylvia Luchini¹, Jessica A Kaahwa²

¹IHC Global, United States of America; ²Makerere University

The importance and nature of (land administration) data when using emerging technologies

Jacob Vos

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

Reflections on the possible privatization of Land Registries by making use of emerging technologies

Mihai Taus

Romanian Land Registry Association, Romania

Embracing emerging technologies; preconditions, threshold, possibilities and guarantees

Lionel Galliez

International Union of Notaries (UINL), France

East-African perspectives and experiences, using modern technology while building up Land Administration systems in the region.

Emmanuel Nkurunziza

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

A brief introduction about the experiences in Brazil, Peru and other countries in South America

Victor Endo

Global Land Alliance, Peru

The experience in Australia with privatising land registries

Sharon Christensen

Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Valuer general of South Africa; rights, responsibilities, and land reform

Ruel Williamson

Greenfield Advisors, Inc., United States of America

The implications of incomplete restorative justice in South African land restitution: lessons from the Moletele case.

Nerhene Davis

University of Pretoria, South Africa

Towards addressing the new land reform policy paradigm in South Africa

Phineas Khazamula Chauke

University of Venda, South Africa

Drawing insights from a global comparison of legal safeguards for expropriation

Nina Paustian, Daniela Monika Behr, Rumbidzai Maweni, Kristina Nedelkova

World Bank, United States of America

Acquiring land compulsorily at any cost? Policy recommendations for improved resettlement outcomes.

Ellen De Keyser¹, Eddie Nsamba-Gayiiya²

¹Ellen De Keyser, Belgium; ²Consultant Surveyors and Planners, Uganda

Assessment of community involvement and compensation money utilization in Ethiopia: Case studies from Bahir Dar and DebreMarkosPeri-urban areas

Sayeh Agegnehu¹, Reinfried Mansberger²

¹Debre Markos University, Ethiopia; ²University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Austria

The question of compensation in the large-scale land acquisition and redistribution in Southern Africa

Justice Mayor Wadyajena

Parliament of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe

Social mix and social cohesion using housing mix: a review of the Chilean and British experience

Claudia Murray¹, Gavin Parker¹, Francisco Sabatini², Luis Vergara²

¹University of Reading, United Kingdom; ²Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

Affordable housing: a land suitability perspective

Gayatri Singh¹, Tony Hartanto Widjarnarso¹, Jose Eduardo Diaz-Azcunaga², Ricardo Ochoa-Sosa², Eduardo Perez-Denicia²

¹World Bank, Indonesia; ²CAPSUS, Mexico

Harnessing the real estate market for equitable affordable housing provision through land value capture: Insights from San Francisco City, California

Bernard Nzau, Claudia Trillo

University of Salford, United Kingdom

Gender gaps and actions being taken to address them in forest landscapes

Patricia Kristjanson, Tamara Bah, Anne Kuriakose, Meerim Shakirova, Gerardo Segura, Katharina Siegmann, Margaux Granat

World Bank, United States of America

Closing the gender gap in natural resource management programs in Mexico

Katharina Siegmann¹, Zeina Afif¹, Graciela Reyes-Retana³, Margarita Gomez Garcia²

¹World Bank; ²CIDE; ³Cornell University

Innovation of locally-led adaptive programming in Natural Resource Governance Change in Myanmar

Aung Kyaw Thein, Rick Gregory

Pyoe Pin Institute, Myanmar

La privatisation des terres collectives au Maroc: une voie de dynamisation du marché foncier agricole

Mohamed Hicham Ferrassi

MCA-Morocco, Morocco

Institutional reform of the public administration system and its effect on land administration (case study: Republic of Moldova)

Olga Buzu

Agency for Land Relations and Cadastre of the Republic of Moldova, Moldova

An examination of spatial planning impact on development of the agricultural land in Kosovo

Dukagjin Bakija², Rudina Qerimi², Arben Citaku¹, Luan Nushi¹

¹Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning, Republic of Kosovo; ²Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Kosovo

CADASTRE and access to land

Hugo Daniel Gatica¹, Hugo Daniel Gatica², Julián Cortina Fraysse³

¹Cons Fed del Catastro, Argentine Republic; ²Dirección Provincial de Catastro e Información Territorial; ³Dirección de Catastro Municipio Vista Alegre

Integrating data for land tenure regularization in the State of Piauí, Brazil

Hérbert Buenos Aires de Carvalho¹, Regina Lourdes Carvalho de Araújo¹, Camille Bourguignon², Simone Raquel Mendes de Oliveira¹

¹Piauí State Land Institute; ²The World Bank

Types of land tenure in Brazil: the first estimate from available geo-referenced information

Bastiaan Philip Reydon¹, Gerd Sparovek², Luis Fernando Guedes Pinto³, Vinicius Faria³, Gabriel Siqueira¹, Javier Godar⁴, Toby Gardner³, Rafael Georges⁵, Gustavo Ferroni⁵, Caio Hamamura⁶, Felipe Cerignoni³, Tomás Carvalho³, Claudia Azevedo-Ramos⁷, Ane Alencar⁷, Vivian Ribeiro⁷

¹UNICAMP, Brazil; ²GeoLab- Esalq – USP; ³Imaflora; ⁴SEI; ⁵Oxfam; ⁶IFSP; ⁷IPAM

A new approach for the establishment of a regional multipurpose cadastre in La Mojana, Colombia – how to overcome large-scale cadastral operations challenges through technological and methodological innovations

Stéphane Georges Guy Palicot¹, Loic Daniel²

¹GEOFIT, France; ²IGNFI France

Standardization and integration of the electronic real estate registry system of Brazil (SREI): the national operator of SREI (ONR).

Ivan Jacopetti do Lago

IRIB, Brazil

Emerging Practice from the Field: Private sector action on land rights in the upstream

Donald Bryson Ogden¹, Christina Healy¹, Andy White¹, Mark Constantine²

¹Rights and Resources Initiative, United States of America; ²International Finance Corporation

Etranger et accès a la terre en afrique de l'ouest

Ka Ibrahima

Initiative Prospective Agricole et Rurale, Senegal

Due diligence in land acquisition - Lawyers and their responsibilities

Margret Vidar¹, Kate Cook², Marianna Bicchieri¹

¹FAO, Italy; ²Matrix Chambers, UK

Consequential trends in global recognition of community-based forest tenure from 2002-2017

Chloe Ginsburg, Stephanie Keene

Rights and Resources Initiative, United States of America

From lessons learnt to future options for global forest governance

Anna Begemann, Lukas Giessen, Marko Lovric, Jeanne Roux, Dennis Roitsch, Georg Winkel

European Forest Institute (EFI), Germany

Evidence on biodiversity conservation impacts: assessing theories, approaches, and outcomes from community engagement

Aireona Bonnie Raschke¹, Michael I. Brown², Samantha H. Cheng¹

¹Arizona State University, United States of America; ²Chemonics, International

Producing useable knowledge for sustainable land governance: Potential contributions from land systems science

Ariane de Bremond¹, Albrecht Ehrensperger¹, Peter Messerli¹, Vincent Roth², Henri Rueff²

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

Jurisprudence of the Supreme Federal court of Brazil in the process of demarcation of the indigenous reserve Raposa Serra do Sol

Jose de Arimateia Barbosa¹, Ariane Silva Barbosa², Rui Barbosa Netto³, Delaíde Passos⁴

¹Secretary of the association of Notaries and regisrars of te State of Mato Grosso- Brazil; ²Lowyer; ³Notary, Brazil; ⁴UNICAMP

Assessing implementers’ perspective on reform processes: Progress and challenges in formalizing the rights of native communities in Peru

Iliana Monterroso, Anne Larson

CIFOR, Peru

Case study: a model for securing the legal recognition of indigenous lands rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Kysseline Cherestal¹, Alfred Kibiswa³, Kapupu Diwa Mutimanwa³, Keddy Bosulu², Roger Buhereko¹, Betto Nyongolo³, Loic Braune¹

¹World Bank, United States of America; ²REPALEF, Réseau de populations autochtones pour la gestion durable des écosystèmes forestiers de la RDC; ³LINAPYCO, Ligue nationale des associations autochtones pygmées du Congo

Indonesia: systematic land regularization and electronic land administration

Embun Sari

The Indonesia Ministry of Spatial Planning and Agrarian Reform, Indonesia

Land policy and administration reform in Nepal

Janak Raj Joshi

Ministry of Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation, Nepal

Uzbekistan real property register and cadastre modernization

Maksud Ruzmetov

Goskomzemgeodezkadastr, Uzbekistan

Property registration in India – Delhi perspective

Amlanjyoti Goswami

Indian Institute for Human Settlements, India

Discussant

Faiz Faiz-ul-Hassan

Punjab Land Records Authority, Government of Punjab, Pakistan

Discussant

Serene Ho

The University of Melbourne, Australia

Worldwide, Regional and local initiatives to regulate professional ethics

Curtis Sumner

National Society of Professional Surveyors, United States of America

Professional ethics under pressure, how to cope with technical developments

Maurice Barbieri

CLGE (Council of European Geodetic Surveyors), Switzerland

Ethics, from theory to practice

Jean-Yves Pirlot

CLGE (Comité de Liaison des Géomètres Européens), Belgium

Catalyzing innovation for global urban monitoring from a holistic utilization of big earth data, artificial intelligence and open knowledge

Thomas Esch¹, Felix Bachofer¹, Jakub Balhar², Martin Böttcher³, Enguerran Boissier⁴, Mattia Marconcini¹, Alessandro Marin⁵, Emmanuel Mathot⁴, Annekatrin Metz-Marconcini¹, Fabrizio Pacini⁴, Marc Paganini⁵, Tomas Soukup², Vaclav Svaton⁶, Julian Zeidler¹

¹German Aerospace Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany; ²GISAT s.r.o., Prague, Czech Republic; ³Brockmann Consult GmbH, Geesthacht, Germany; ⁴Terradue Srl, Rome, Italy; ⁵European Space Agency (ESA), ‎Frascati, Italy; ⁶IT4Innovations – VSB Technical University of Ostrava, Ostrava-Poruba, Czech Republic

Earth Observation for supporting urban land use policy implementation

Thomas Haeusler, Sharon Gomez, Amelie Broszeit

GAF AG, Germany

Earth Observation – A support for the distributed energy sector

Rainer Malmberg, Elke Krätzschmar

IABG mbH, Germany

The impact of land regularization in rural Tanzania; gender, rights and anti- poverty case: the civil society organization’s parallel support to the land tenure support programme

Nasieku Kisambu¹, Jonathan Kioko¹, Mary Richard²

¹We Effect, Tanzania; ²Tanzania Women Lawyers Association, Tanzania

A multi-stakeholder approach to advancing women’s land rights using the SDGs framework: experience from Tanzania

Godfrey Massay

Landesa, Tanzania

Women’s tenure rights and land reform in Angola

Allan Cain

Development Workshop, Angola

Using institutional cooperation, focusing on Capacity Building, to secure Gender Equality

Kent Johan Ronny Nilsson¹, Grace Nishimwe²

¹Lantmäteriet, Sweden; ²Rwanda Land Management and Use Authority, Rwanda

Land-constrain-induced poverty and land-capitalization-supported poverty alleviation strategy in China: A case study of Shaanxi Province

Jinfeng Du

Xi'an Jiaotong University, United States of America

Impact of land certification on land and labor allocation in China

Xuwen Gao¹, Longbao Wei¹, Xinjie Shi^1,2, Shile Fang³

¹Zhejiang University, China, People's Republic of; ²Australia National University, Australia; ³Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Science, China, People's Republic of

Reduction of industrial land beyond Urban Development Boundary in Shanghai

Zhengfeng Zhang

Renmin University of China, China, People's Republic of China

State of land in the Mekong region

Micah Ingalls¹, Jean-Christophe Diepart², Nhu Truong³, Daniel Hayward⁴, Tony Neil⁵, Chanthavone Phomphakdy¹, Rasso Bernhard¹, Sinu Fogarizzu¹, Michael Epprecht¹, Vong Nanhthavong¹, Dang Hung Vo⁶, Dzung Nguyen⁷, Phong Nguyen⁸, Thatheva Saphangthong⁹, Chanthaviphone Inthavong¹⁰, Cornelia Hett¹, Nicholas Tagliarino¹¹

¹University of Bern, Lao PDR; ²Mekong Region Land Governance Project, Lao PDR; ³McGill University, Canada; ⁴Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development, Thailand; ⁵Independent; ⁶Hanoi University, Vietnam; ⁷World Bank, Vietnam; ⁸Institute for Policy and Strategy for Agriculture and Rural Development, Vietnam; ⁹Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Lao PDR; ¹⁰Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Lao PDR; ¹¹UN Habitat, The Netherlands

New innovations-old problems: the case of the flexible land tenure system and communal land registration in Namibia

Charl-Thom Hilgardt Bayer

Namibia University of Science and Technology, Namibia

"A limited contribution to a complex development problem"? Land titling and land tenure in the Mekong region

Michael Dwyer², Naomi Basik Treanor¹, Phuc Xuan To^1,3, Quang Nguyen¹, Sophal Chan⁴, Kevin Woods¹, Thoumthone Vongvisouk⁵, Jean-Christophe Diepart⁶

¹Forest Trends, United States of America; ²University of Colorado, United States of America; ³Australian National University, Australia; ⁴Centre for Policy Studies, Cambodia; ⁵National University of Laos, Lao PDR; ⁶Mekong Regional Land Governance Project, Lao PDR

What policy lessons can we learn from stalled land reforms? Insights from Senegal

Marie Gagne¹, Cheikh Oumar Ba², Ibrahima Ka²

¹University of Toronto, Canada; ²Initiative Prospective Agricole et Rurale (IPAR), Senegal

Process of buildings legalization in Republic of Macedonia from the perspective of the real estate cadastre

Sonja Dimova

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

Guidelines for formalization of informal constructions

Chrysi Potsiou¹, Steven Nystrom², Rik Wouters³

¹FIG International Federation of Surveyors, Greece; ²FIG, United States of America; ³UNECE WPLA, The Netherlands

Between informal and illegal: comparative analysis of non-compliance with planning and building laws

Rachelle Alterman

Neaman Institue for National Policy Research, Technion, Israel

Modernizing planning and development regulations in the Gaza Strip, Palestine

Zeyad Elshakra¹, Usama Sadawi², Farid Alqeeq², Nermin Zourob², Rami Abuzuhri¹

¹UN-Habitat, Palestinian Territories; ²Palestinian Housing Council, Palestinian Territories

Customary tenure and agricultural investment in Uganda

Laura Meinzen-Dick

University of California Davis, United States of America

Rural land in Mauritania facing the challenge of development

Cheikh Saad Bouh Camara

Université de Nouakchott, Mauritania

Going for hybrid maize: the importance of land for the success of maize crop insurance in Tanzania

Meine Pieter van Dijk

Erasmus university Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Netherlands, The

Land rights and livelihoods in rural South Africa – a gendered perspective

Kezia Batisai

University of Johannesburg, South Africa

“A Land Market is the strategy for access to land for development”. Which land market? For whose benefit? An analysis of the Ugandan case

Judy Adoko, Liz Neate

Land and Equity Movement in Uganda - LEMU, Uganda

Land governance and urban development find a challenges in the perspective of social safeguards

Md Mayen Uddin Tazim

Asian Development Bank (ADB), Bangladesh, People's Republic of

Ghana: Collateralizing land use rights on customary land. Lessons and challenges for growing the mortgage market

Ian Rose¹, Emmanuel Noah²

¹DAI, United States of America; ²BenBen, Ghana

Legal empowerment in commercial agriculture: can small-scale producers secure their fair share?

Lorenzo Cotula, Emily Polack, Thierry Berger, Brendan Schwartz

IIED, United Kingdom

Innovative financing solutions for community support in the context of land investments

Sam Szoke-Burke, Kaitlin Cordes

Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, United States of America

Rural development, dynamic political economy and social license: a case study in renewable energy project governance missteps and lessons learned.

Andrew Buchman, Dean Slocum, Atma Khalsa

Acorn International, LLC, United States of America

Assessing community capacity to respond to external threats to land tenure

Rachael Knight

Namati, United States of America

Jointly towards improvement of land administration in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosiljka Predragovic¹, Zeljko Obradovic², Andja Zimic³, Denis Tabucic², Stojan Jungic¹, Dejan Jeremic³

¹Republic Authority for Geodetic and Real Property Affairs, Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina; ²Federal Administration for Geodetic and Real Property Affairs, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina; ³Capacity Building for Improvement of Land Administration and Procedures in Bosnia and Herzegovina - CILAP project

Innovative technology combat for still pending privatization, legalization challenges, rooted in the communist regime

Marianna Posfai¹, Odeta Näks²

¹NIRAS OY; ²Independent

Innovative approaches in Georgian land registration reform

Elene Grigolia, Teimuraz Gabriadze

National Agency of Public Registry (NAPR), Georgia

Responding to the global agenda: valuation of undocumented lands to promote responsible land governance and human rights recognition

Danilo Antonio¹, Agatha Wanyonyi¹, Oumar Sylla¹, Clarissa Augustinus², Mike McDemortt²

¹UN-Habitat/GLTN, Kenya; ²Independent Consultant, Kenya

Securing forest tenure for rural development: an integrated assessment tool

Jenny Springer¹, Gerardo Segura Warnholtz², Malcolm Childress³, James Smyle⁴

¹The Equator Group, United States of America; ²World Bank, United States of America; ³Land Alliance, United States of America; ⁴Independent, United States of America

Whose land is it anyway? Exploring new ways for consensus building in policy making

Chilombo Musa

University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Land rights progress a participatory land governance tool for Cameroon

Samuel Nguiffo¹, Lorenzo Cotula², Brendan Schwartz², Jaff Bamendjo³

¹Centre pour l'Environment et Development, Cameroon; ²International Institute for Environment and Development, Cameroon; ³Network to Fight Against Hunger

First social then legal: what 902 decree – law changed. Follow-up on the Colombian Peace Agreements and land tenure issues II

Margarita Maria Varon Perea

Colombia Rural, Colombia

Between over-innovation and business as usual: another look at the reasons for delay in the implementation of the rural dimension of the Final Agreement in two departments of Colombia (Caquetá and Putumayo).

Klaas Geert van Vliet¹, Erika Andrea Rámirez²

¹CIRAD, France; Network for applied research on Transitions in Latinamerica and the Caribbean; ²Foundation CERSUR, Colombia, Network for applied research on Transitions in Latinamerica and the Caribbean

Land markets, social networks and land-grabbing in Colombia.

Camilo Pardo

George Mason University, United States of America

Effects of land tenure formalization on illicit crop production in Colombia

Ivonne Astrid Moreno Horta

WORLD BANK, Colombia

Extended models from the Colombian LADM Profile as support of Territorial Planning

Oscar Zarama¹, Fabián Mejía², Moisés Poyatos³, Daniel Casalprim³

¹IGAC, Colombia; ²BSF Swissphoto, Colombia; ³BSF Swissphoto, Spain

The rights of indigenous people to the enjoyment of Human Rights to Land and Natural Resources in Uganda.

Rebecca Apio¹, Lilian Achola², Emmanuel Egaru³, Freda Orochi⁴, Rebecca Atayo², Betty Odur⁴

¹Trocaie Uganda, Uganda; ²Landnet Uganda; ³Land Justice Network; ⁴Uganda Land Alliance

Understanding the key Drivers of Land use and Livelihood dynamics in the Drylands of Kenya: The Case of Fodder production in Isiolo County

Saada Mohamed Sala, David Jakinda Otieno, Jonathan Nzuma, Stephen Mwangi Mureithi

University of Nairobi, Kenya

Land and Pastoralism in Eastern Africa: lessons learned

Joanita Okedi

Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa (OSIEA), Uganda

Cyber security for Fintech and their role in sustainable development goals

Manohar Velpuri

TLF Tech Private Limited

Handbook for geospatial best practices for land administration

Stephen Calder

GIS/Transport, United States of America

Exploring UAS mapping to improve land and resource management in a Native American community

Adam Benjamin¹, Grenville Barnes², Casey Swanson³, Kevin Barthel⁴, Christen Corcoran⁴

¹University of Florida Geomatics Program, School of Forest Resources and Conservation, Fort Lauderdale, FL, United States of America; ²University of Florida Geomatics Program, School of Forest Resources and Conservation, Gainsville, FL, United States of America; ³Land And Natural Resources Division, Forest County Potawatomi, United States of America; ⁴Global Land Alliance

SOLA open source for improving tenure governance - way forward

Maria Paola Rizzo¹, Rumyana Tonchovska¹, Louisa Jansen¹, Jan Van Bennekom-Minnema²

¹UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, Italy; ²COWI A/S, Denmark

Blockchain revolution in Georgia

Elene Grigolia

National Agency of Public Registry (NAPR), Georgia

Masterclass on designing smart contracts for land administration

Todd Miller

ChromaWay, Sweden and United States of America

AI-powered spatio-temporal analytics to detect electricity theft from public road lighting infrastructures and support the efficient use of energy in degraded areas

Prof. Dr. Vassilios Vescoukis¹, Dr. Emmanouil Malliotakis², Georgios Papakyriakopoulos³, Konstantinos Papaspyrou¹

¹NTUA, School of Surveying Engineering, Spatial Intelligence Research Group; ²Public Power Corporation S.A; ³The World Bank

National security integrated land data bank for Nigeria

Olorunfemi Isaac Olu Adedurin

OGIS Consult Limited, Nigeria

Perceived tenure (in)security in the era of rural transformation: a gender-disaggregated analysis from mozambique

Hosaena Ghebru¹, Fikirte Girmachew²

¹International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), United States of America; ²Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EDRI), Ethiopia

Adopting data integration and interoperability as a tool for optimizing land and water governance

Paul Machogu

University of Nairobi, Kenya

India’s de-urbanization of manufacturing sector

Ejaz Ghani

World Bank, United States of America

Financial accessibility and private investment in developing countries

Ndilengar Mbatina Nodji¹, Sawadogo Tounwendé Alain²

¹Pan African University, Cameroon; ²Ecole Supérieure Multinationale des Télécommunications (ESMT)

Land access and perceived tenure security in the era of social, economic and environmental dynamics/ transformation in Africa

Hosaena Ghebru¹, Fikirte Girmachew²

¹International Food Policy Research Institute; ²Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EDRI), Ethiopia

Centralized traffic control (CTC) for greater Gaborone city

Polychronios Akritidis, Panagiotis Papadakos, Aris Karlaftis

NAMA S.A., Greece

Neighbor to neighbor: detroit's first property tax delinquency census

Alexander Alsup

Quicken Loans Community Fund, United States of America

The complementarity of education and use of productive inputs on economic outcomes among smallholder farmers in Africa

Oliver Kirui

Center for Development Research, Germany

Socioeconomic indices for townships in Myanmar

S Zaung Nau, Dora Marinova

Curtin University, Australia

Integrating evaluation into program cycle – opportunities and challenges in land policy reform programs

David Ameyaw

International Center for Evaluation and Development, Kenya

NGOs roles in cross-sector collaborations with SMEs and impact investors in developing countries: a values creation approach

Francesca Nugnes

FAST Finance Alliance for Sustainable Trade, France

Land Rights – an investment worth it? Case study from Ghana

Simon Ulvund¹, Eva Maria Unger², Chrit Lemmen²

¹Meridia; ²ITC

Does tenure security influences soil quality and household resilience? Evidence from Senegal

Tamsir Mbaye¹, Katim Touré², Marieme Fall ba¹, Dioumacor Fall³, Moussa Dieng⁴, Sofia Espinosa⁵, Francesca Romano⁵

¹Senegalese Institute for Agricultural Research (ISRA)/ Commission nationale de réforme foncière (CNRF),Senegal; ²L'Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Agriculture, Université de Thiès, Senegal; ³Senegalese Institute for Agricultural Research (ISRA)/ Le Conseil national de régulation de l'audiovisuel (CNRA), Senegal; ⁴Senegalese Institute for Agricultural Research (ISRA)/ Centre de Recherches Agricoles de Saint-Louis (CRA), Senegal; ⁵Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Italy

Innovation for meeting investments and traditional landrights

Marianna Posfai

NIRAS, Finland

Payments for environmental services on agricultural land: evidence from a choice experiment with tree planting contracts in Ethiopia

Kaleab Haile, Nyasha Tirivayi, Wondimagegn Tesfaye

UNU-MERIT, The Netherlands

Digital commodification of agriculture in Colombia: enclosures or collaborative land control mechanisms

Guillermo Medina

Lancaster University, Colombia

Corporate social responsibility and poverty alleviation: a case study of Wanda Danzhai village

Eric Heikkila¹, Manita Rao¹, Jingwen Zhang²

¹University of Southern California, United States of America; ²Tsinghua University, People's Republic of China

Urban land governance and secure tenure in Latin America and the Caribbean: status and actions

Paola Siclari

The New School, United States of America

Land governance “AmBisyon 2040” : up-valuing Carp investments, millennial rural-urban inclusive growth

Eva Benita Tuzon

Department of Agrarian Reform-Support Services Office, Phillipines

Participatory and ecological aspects of rural revitalization in China

Michael Klaus¹, Karl Spindler², Fahria Masum³

¹Hanns Seidel Foundation, Germany; ²Planungsbüro Spindler, Germany; ³International Consultant, Germany

Innovation in land administration to aid agro-business investment, diversification of the Nigerian economy – Kano approach

Malandi Umar Kura

Kano State Bureau for Land Management, Nigeria

Private sector responsibility in supporting sustainable development

Cecilie Ravn-Christensen, Kenneth Norre

LE34, Denmark

Gender parity via digital land systems

Gitanjali Swamy¹, Phillip Auerswald², Ignacio Montero-Dasso³, Karol Boudreaux⁴

¹IoTask, Zilla Global, EQUALS- United Nations; ²George Mason University, Zilla Global; ³UTec, Peru, Zilla Global; ⁴Landesa, Zilla Global

Land predation, climate change and poverty in Burkina Faso: a computable general equilibrium analysis

Yaya KY, Habi KY

Pan-African Research Center for Economic and Social Development (CARDES), Burkina Faso

The Brazilian Forest Service strategic for conservation, restoration, social and economic local involvement: The Arboretum Program

Lidiane Moretto¹, Natália Coelho Barbosa Albuquerque¹, Janaína de Almeida Rocha¹, Carlos Eduardo Portella Sturm¹, Fábio Fernandes Corrêa², Tito Nunes de Castro¹, Cristina Galvão Alves¹

¹Brazilian Forest Service, Brazil; ²Public Prosecutor`s Office of the State of Bahia, Brazil

Mainstreaming Earth observation in agricultural development – preliminary demonstration results of the EO4SD initiative’s dedicated activity cluster on agriculture and rural development

Annemarie Klaasse¹, Remco Dost¹, Evelyn Aparicio Medrano², Eva Haas³, Silvia Huber⁴, Almudena Velasco Rodriguez⁵, Arjen Vrielink⁶, Raul Zurita-Milla⁷

¹eLEAF, The Netherlands; ²Nelen & Schuurmans, The Netherlands; ³GeoVille, Austria; ⁴DHI GRAS, Denmark; ⁵SpaceTec, Belgium; ⁶Satelligence, The Netherlands; ⁷ITC, The Netherlands

How disruptive innovation can be incubated in any NGO or large business with minimal change to the procurement process

Alexis Hannah Smith

IMGeospatial, United Kingdom

Innovative private sector initiatives to incentivise public buy-in to land administration services – examples from Ethiopia

John Leckie¹, Christina Mayr², Ignacio Fiestas²

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

Smallholder land registration with the value chain, increasing productivity

Thomas Vaassen¹, Eva Maria Unger², Chrit Lemmen², Jonathan Seipl¹, Simon Ulvund¹

¹Meridia, Netherlands; ²ITC, Netherlands

Effects of investment decisions on land formalization for rural households in Colombia

Alejandro Rueda Sanz

Banco de la República, Colombia

Land policy and political economy in Nigeria

Osahon Igun

Arconstruct Limited, Nigeria

Reforming land registration and administration through innovation in Kenya

Zubeda Mucheke¹, Ben Sihanya², Lizahmy Ntonjira³

¹Ministry of Lands and Physical Planning, Kenya; ²University of Nairobi, Kenya; ³Technical University of Kenya, Kenya

Effects of investment decisions on land formalization for rural households in Colombia

Alejandro Rueda Sanz

Banco de la República, Colombia

Land invasion and urban development in Zambian cities: form, causes, effects and possible solutions

Anthony Mushinge¹, Ephraim Kabunda Munshifwa¹, Sam Mwando²

¹Copperbelt University, Zambia; ²Namibia University of Science and Technology, Namibia

Linking land tenure and use, catalyzing land use innovation for grassroots women

Grace Loumo, Ben Wacha

Action for Women and Awakening in Rural Environment, Uganda

Do farmers really like farming? Indian farmers in transition

Bina Agarwal¹, Ankush Agrawal²

¹University of Manchester, United Kingdom; ²Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India

From ministry to farm house - building trust in post conflict rural Colombia by a multilevel and participative approach of land administration

Ernst Peter Oosterbroek¹, Victor Endo², Alvaro Ortiz³, Katherine Smyth⁴, Mathilde Molendijk¹

¹Kadaster, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands; ²Administracion del Territorio Consultores, Lima, Peru; ³Universidad Distrital, Bogota, Colombia; ⁴Esri, Washington DC, United States of America

Mismanagement of diversity as bane to effective land administration in Nigeria: the way forward

Thomas Ashaolu

The Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro, Nigeria

Land governance in Namibia: challenges and opportunities

Ase Christensen

Namibia University of Science and Technology, Namibia

The confluence of land administration and land policy as determinants of formal land accessibility in Nigeria

Thomas Abiodun Ashaolu, Kazeem Bolayemi Akinbola

The Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro, Nigeria

Land policy distortions, credit constraints, and agricultural productivity: evidence from China’s apple growers

Xingguang Li, Jundi Liu, Xuexi Huo

Northwest A&F University, People's Republic of China

Are farmers really reluctant to land paid withdraw in China?

Mingyue Gong

Huazhong University of Science and Technology, People's Republic of China

Land tenure dynamics and contributions to livelihood diversification in Baringo County, Kenya

Ritah Setey¹, David Otieno¹, John Busienei¹, Per Knutsson²

¹University of Nairobi, Kenya; ²University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Access to land and poverty reduction in a rural north western part of Cameroon

Besong Timothy Tambi¹, Ozker Kocadel¹, Ngwafor Ephraim Ndeh²

¹Cyprus International University, Cyprus; ²University of Yaounde II, Cameroon

Impact of overseas farmland investment on grain import based on difference-in-difference model

Yunzhu Chen

Huazhong University of Science and Technology, People's Republic of China

Integrated development and land planning in rural areas in kenya for improved livelihoods

Ian Mbote, Patricia Kameri-Mbote

Car Design Research Limited, United Kingdom

Rural indebtedness and land tenure-pre colonial, colonial and post colonial legacies

Sandeep Kandikuppa

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, United States of America

Sustainable land reforms as a comprehensive migration management agenda: a perspective of social inclusion in postcolonial Africa

Samuel Wanjiku

Tübingen University, Germany

Land management in Brazil

Maria Bernadete Lange

The World Bank, Brazil

Assessment of policy frameworks guiding preparation and implementation of resettlement action plans for extractive projects in Kenya

Mwenda Makathimo

Land Development and Governance Institute, Kenya

Registration of forgotten lands, publicly owned land

Swagile Msananga

Ministry of Lands, Tanzania

Achieving fair and equitable tax valuations with fit-for-purpose data strategies

Paul Bidanset, Dorothy Jacks

IAAO, United States of America

Agriculture under conflict – satellite earth observation to measure impact on food security

Annemarie Klaasse, Remco Dost

eLEAF, The Netherlands

Positioning-as-a-service for fit-for-purpose applications

Stephanie Michaud

Trimble Inc, United States of America

Improving paddy rice statistics in Southeast Asia using area frames

Lakshman Nagraj Rao, David Megill, Pamela Lapitan, Anna Christine Durante

Asian Development Bank, Philippines

The use of machine learning processes in the deployment of satellite image data

Tom Mchugh

The Icon Group Ltd, Ireland

Citizens’perceptions on land security: evidences from Senegal

Ibrahima KA, Cheikh Faye, Ndèye Yande Ndiaye

Initiative Prospective Agricole et Rurale, Senegal

Going beyond capturing and analyzing data: effective and inclusive methods of communicating spatial data

Anastasia Zammit¹, Marcello De Maria¹, Lisette Mey¹, Rogier Jongeling², Paul van Asperen³, Rik Wouters⁴

¹Land Portal, Canada; ²Plan B; ³University of Twente; ⁴Kadaster International

Preparing and using satellite images as a mapping tool in difficult tropical environments

Thomas Dubois

Niras Consulting AB, Sweden

Cadastral mapping using low-cost inertial navigation system

Vipul Sharma, Aswani Kumar Munnangi, Bharat Lohani, Onkar Dikshit

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India

Integration of land tenure monitoring in agricultural development projects in Malawi using geospatial technologies

Kefasi Kamoyo, Rex Baluwa

Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development, Malawi

Experiences in the application of participatory land information tools for improving tenure security in developing countries

John Gitau, Danilo Antonio, Hellen Nyamweru

United Nations Human Settlements Programme, Kenya

Land Electronic Card. Using the Palm Vein system to curb land fraud and forgeries

Bashir Kizito Juma

Buganda Land Board, Uganda

Monitoring drought and crop loss using satellite imagery on the cloud

Anna Mae Green, Yonah Bromberg-Gaber, Louisa Nakanuku-Diggs

Radiant Earth Foundation, United States of America

Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data for Citrus crop management support and water monitoring.

Loubna El Mansouri¹, Rachid Hadria², Hamid Mahyou², Tarik Benabdeouahab², Said Lahssini³, Moha Elayachi¹

¹Institute of Agronomy and Veterinary Medicine Hassan II, Morocco; ²National Institute for Agricultural Research, Morocco; ³National School for Forest Engineering, Morocco

Remote sensing and GIS in land use and cover analysis of the northwest zone, Nigeria. Problem identification through change detection

Ayodele Oduwole^1,2, Foluke Oduwole²

¹University of Lagos, Nigeria; ²The Federal Polytechnic Ilaro, Nigeria

Remote sensing based monitoring of fenced area dynamics around the Dadaab Refugee Camp in Kenya

Felix Rembold¹, Massimiliano Rossi², Michele Nori³, Simon Mureithi⁴, Gert Nyberg⁵

¹Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Italy; ²The Rainforest Foundation UK; ³Global Governance Programme - European University; ⁴University of Nairobi; ⁵Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umea

Integrated geospatial information framework – partnerships for implementation

Rumyana Tonchovska¹, Kathrine Kelm²

¹UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, Italy; ²World Bank group, USA

Speed-up sustainable energy for the Amazonian – remote sensing and participatory mapping as support tool for the global development agenda

Valerie Graw¹, José Jara², Javier Muro¹, Richard Resl³, Esteban Calderon²

¹Center for Remote Sensing of Land Surfaces (ZFL), University of Bonn, Germany; ²Tratural, Cuenca, Ecuador; ³AmazonGISnet, Quito, Ecuador

Smallholder oil palm intensification, where do we start?

Shofia Saleh, Bukti Bagja, Thontowi Suhada, Surahman Putra, Zuraidah Said, Andika Putraditama

World Resources Institute (WRI) Indonesia

The link between land markets and sustainable land administration

Richard Baldwin¹, Charles Ruharu², Sam Biraro³, Felicity Buckle⁴, Bernis Byamukama⁵

¹iLand Consulting, United Kingdom; ²University of Rwanda, Rwanda; ³Rwanda Land Management and Use Authority, Rwanda; ⁴DAI Europe, United Kingdom; ⁵DFID Rwanda