Conference Agenda

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Only Sessions at Location/Venue		Sessions at any Location/Venue  -----  Preston Auditorium [21]  MC 13-121 [12]  MC 2-800 [13]  MC 2-850 [5]  MC 4-100 [15]  MC 5-100 [11]  MC 6-100 [14]  MC 6-860 [6]  MC 7-100 [11]  MC 7-860 [13]  MC 8-100 [16]  MC 9-100 [14]  MC 10-100 [14]  MC C1-100 [14]  MC C1-200 [14]  J 1-050 [0]  J B1-075 [2]  Front Lobby [8]  MC Atrium [35]  MC 4-300 [0]  MC 7-370 [0]  MC 9-572 [0]  Preston Lounge [0]  Front Lobby and Preston Lounge [4]  WB MC East Dining Room [1]  Overflow rooms: Preston Lounge; MC2-800 [0]  Overflow rooms: Preston Lounge; MC13-121; MC2-800 [0]  Overflow rooms: Preston Lounge; MC 13-121 [0]  MC 6-300 [0]  MC 9-300 [0]  MC 13-121 Lounge [2]  Organization of American States (OAS) - 1889 F St. NW Washington DC [2]  WB MC Private Dining Room ABC [0]  MC 7- 424 [0]  MC 7-300 [0]  J 7-044 [0]  J 4-044 [2]  MC 4-800 [1]  Overflow rooms: Preston Lounge; MC 4-800 [1]  The Wharf; Washington DC [1]  Stafford county, Virginia [1]

Session Overview

Location: MC C1-200

Date: Tuesday, 26/Mar/2019
8:30am - 10:00am	01-12: Planning land use to attract investment Session Chair: Kaitlin Cordes, Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, United States of America
MC C1-200
10:30am - 12:00pm	02-12: Can large investment catalyze agricultural transformation? Session Chair: Thomas Jayne, Michigan State University, United States of America
MC C1-200
2:00pm - 3:30pm	03-12: Can large farms attract local growth? Session Chair: Derick Bowen, Millennium Challenge Corporation, United States of America
MC C1-200
3:45pm - 5:15pm	04-12: Gender impacts of large-scale investment Session Chair: Kerstin Nolte, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
MC C1-200

Date: Wednesday, 27/Mar/2019
8:30am - 10:00am	05-12: Protecting land rights in the course of land acquisition Session Chair: Joan Kagwanja, UNECA, Ethiopia
MC C1-200
10:30am - 12:00pm	06-12: Dealing with the impacts of failed land acquisition Session Chair: Jann Lay, GIGA - Germany, Germany
MC C1-200
2:00pm - 3:30pm	07-12: Enforcing adherence to standards for large land-based investment Session Chair: Chris Jochnick, Landesa, United States of America
MC C1-200
3:45pm - 5:15pm	08-12: Improving decision-making on common lands Session Chair: Steven Lawry, Center for International Forestry Research, United States of America
MC C1-200

Date: Thursday, 28/Mar/2019
8:30am - 10:00am	09-12: How can large investors be held accountable? Session Chair: Samuel Kimeu, Transparency International Kenya, Kenya
MC C1-200
10:30am - 12:00pm	10-12: Large investments: Protecting human rights & environment Session Chair: Ward Anseeuw, International Land Coalition, Italy
MC C1-200
2:00pm - 3:30pm	11-12: Gathering the data needed to assess large farm productivity Session Chair: Daniel Ayalew Ali, World Bank, United States of America
MC C1-200

Date: Friday, 29/Mar/2019
9:00am - 10:30am	12-02: Analyzing and improving land conflict resolution mechanisms - sharing experiences from the GIZ Global Program Responsble Land Policy
MC C1-200
11:00am - 12:30pm	13-02: Using machine learning for property valuation
MC C1-200
1:30pm - 3:00pm	14-02: The Land Matrix: An open online tool to collect, visualize and provide information about large-scale land acquisitions and to support decentralized land observatories.
MC C1-200