Conference Agenda

Challenges of making land available for large-scale investment in commercial agriculture in Tanzania: the case of Missenyi district

Joseph Mukasa Lusugga Kironde, Sophia Kongela

Ardhi university, Tanzania

Insights from participatory land use planning in Liberia: the dos and don’ts of bottom-up land use planning as part of tenure reform

Ellen Pratt¹, Ethan Miller², Uriah Garsinii¹

¹Liberia Land Authority; ²IDH, The Sustainable Trade Initiative

Building harmonized private and state land data and information systems in Ethiopia

Mulugeta Tadesse¹, Tommi Tenno², Oliver Schoenweger¹, Yohannes Redda², Zerfu Hailu²

¹Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Ethiopia; ²NIRAS

Making Myanmar's National Land Use Policy and Legal Framework work: opportunities and challenges for harnessing technology, innovation and investment in people for Myanmar's inclusive development

Thyn Zar Oo¹, Kyaw Htun^1,2, Nwai Aye Aye Wai^1,3

¹The PLAN: Public Legal Aid Network, Myanmar; ²Emerald Sea Group; ³River Mekong Group

The Resource Impact Dashboard (RID) An innovative global framework to measure the local impact of landed resources exploitation by industries

Fritz Brugger³, Selina Bezzola³, Joao Salavessa², Rey Pascal¹, Peter Hochet¹, Hermine Papazian¹

¹Institute for Social Research in Africa, Burkina Faso; ²Universidade de Lurio, Mozambique; ³Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland

Agricultural growth corridors in Sub-Saharan Africa - New hope for territorial rural development or another non-starter?

Michael Bruentrup

German Development Institute (DIE), Germany

A framework for the development of responsible agropoles in Africa

Mohamed Coulibaly, Francine Picard

International Institute for Sustainable Development, Mali

Changing farm structure and rural transformation in Africa

Thomas Jayne

Michigan State University, United States of America

How and why large-scale agricultural investments induce diverse trajectories of regional development in Kenya, Madagascar and Mozambique

Markus Giger¹, Christoph Oberlack¹, Ward Anseeuw², Camilla Adele³, Magalie Bourblanc⁴, Perrine Burnod⁵, Sandra Eckert¹, Wega Fitawek³, Eve Fouilleux⁶, Sheryl L Hendriks³, Boniface Kiteme⁷, Sara Mercandalli⁴, Aurelien Reys⁶, Maya da Silva³, Michael Van Der Laan³, Julie Zaehringer¹, Peter Messerli¹

¹Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), University of Bern, Switzerland; ²CIRAD / International Land Coalition; ³University of Pretoria; ⁴CIRAD / University of Pretoria; ⁵CIRAD / Observatoire du foncier Madagascar; ⁶CIRAD, France; ⁷CETRAD, Kenya

Investing in land versus land use: analyzing investment decisions by transnational forestry and agriculture companies

Dilini Abeygunawardane¹, Patrick Meyfroidt^1,2, Angela Kronenburg García¹

¹Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium; ²F.R.S.- FNRS, Brussels, Belgium

Large-scale land aggregation for transforming and scaling up African agriculture

Maria Marealle

African Development Bank, Côte d'Ivoire

Winners or losers: a gender analysis of the economic and social impact of corporate large-scale land acquisition on rural women in Cameroon

Lotsmart Fonjong¹, Lucy Fonjong², Hellen Kasilla³

¹University of Buea, Cameroon; ²University of Yaounde I, Cameroon; ³Islamic Relief Worldwide, Kenya

New research about gender, land and mining in Mongolia: deepening understanding of coping strategies in pastoral communities

Elizabeth Daley¹, Yansanjav Narangerel², Zoe Driscoll¹

¹Mokoro Ltd, United Kingdom; ²People Centered Conservation (PCC), Mongolia

Strengthening women's voices in land governance in the context of commercial pressures on land

Philippine Sutz¹, Amaelle Seigneret¹, Mamadou Fall²

¹IIED, United Kingdom; ²IED Afrique, Senegal

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

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

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

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

Open EIA reporting and contracting for sustainable land and natural resource development in Cambodia

Thy Try, Hindley David

Open Development Cambodia (ODC), Cambodia

Undisclosed: Practical examples of financial sector disclosure and why it’s critical for communities to know who is financing activities on their land

Shona Hawkes, Christian Donaldson

Oxfam International, Australia

Estimating industrial concession area in the developing world: Results and conclusions

Donald Bryson Ogden, Christina Healy

Rights and Resources Initiative, United States of America

The ASEAN guidelines on promoting responsible investment in food, agriculture and forestry

Sarah Brewin, Francine Picard Mukazi, Carin Smaller

International Institute for Sustainable Development, Switzerland

Private law and agricultural development – Improving agricultural land investment contracts and making them consistent with the VGGT and CFS-RAI Principles

Ignacio Tirado¹, Neale Bergman¹, Margret Vidar²

¹UNIDROIT, Italy; ²FAO, Italy

Agricultural investments under international investment law

Jesse Coleman¹, Sarah Brewin², Thierry Berger³

¹Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, United States of America; ²International Institute for Sustainable Development, Canada; ³International Institute for Environment and Development, United Kingdom

Undermining justice: The investment treaty regime and affected third parties

Jesse Coleman, Lise Johnson, Kaitlin Cordes

Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, United States of America

Root for the tubers: extended-harvest crop production and productivity measurement in surveys

Heather Moylan¹, Talip Kilic¹, John Ilukor¹, Innocent Phiri², Clement Mtengula³

¹The World Bank, Italy; ²University of Malawi; ³Consultant

How much can we trust farmer self-reported data on crop varieties? Experimental evidence using DNA fingerprinting of cassava varieties in Malawi

John Ilukor^1,2, Talip Kilic¹, James Stevenson², Heather Moylan¹, Andrzej Kilian³, Frédéric Kosmowski², Alexander Nganga⁴, Albert Mhone^5,6

¹The Living Standards Measurement Study, Development Data Group, the World Bank, Italy; ²CGIAR Independent Science and Partnership Council’s Standing Panel on Impact Assessment, Italy; ³University of Canberra, Australia; ⁴International Institute of Tropical Agriculture Malawi; ⁵Chitedze National Agricultural Research Institute, Malawi; ⁶CAVA2, Malawi

Land measurement bias: comparisons from GPS, self-reports and satellite data

Andrew Dillon¹, Lakshman Nagraj Rao²

¹Northwestern University, USA; ²Asian Development Bank, Philippines

Assessing the impact of systematic measurement error in farmer-reported crop production on the scale-productivity relationship: evidence from a survey experiment in Mali

Ismael Yacoubou Djima, Talip Kilic, Sydney Gourlay

The World Bank, Italy

From the ground up: integrating survey and geospatial data for improved soil fertility measurement at scale

Sydney Gourlay, Talip Kilic

World Bank, Italy

Analyzing and improving land conflict resolution mechanisms - sharing experiences from the GIZ Global Program Responsible Land Policy

Babette Wehrmann

Independent Expert, Germany

Using machine learning for property valuation

Luis Triveno¹, Sarah Antos²

¹World Bank, United States of America; ²World Bank, United States of America

The Land Matrix: An open online tool to collect, visualize and provide information about large-scale land acquisitions and to support decentralized land observatories.

Christof Althoff

GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies / Land Matrix Initiative, Germany