Conference Agenda

From fragmentation and elite capture to building new bridges in partnership: repurposing agrarian reform in South Africa in a new era

Laurel Oettle

AFRA, South Africa

Land reform policy in Indonesia

Harison Mucodompis

Ministry of Agrarian and Spatial Management/National Land Agency, Indonesia

Land reform debate in Indonesia

Dewi Kartika Abdul Hamid

Consortium for Agrarian Reform (KPA), Indonesia

Land reform policy in Colombia

Margarita Maria Varon Perea

Colombia Rural, Colombia

Land reform policy in Colombia

Javier Perez-Burgos

Ministerio de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural, Colombia

Indigenous land rights and deforestation: evidence from the Brazilian Amazon

Silke Heuser, Ariel BenYishay, Daniel Runfula, Rachel Trichler

The World Bank, United States of America

The impacts of a land tenure clarification project on deforestation and forest degradation in Guatemala

Ana Reboredo Segovia¹, Eric Bullock¹, Leonardo Corral², Christoph Nolte¹

1: Boston University, United States of America; 2: Inter-American Development Bank, United States of America

Governance frameworks for the sustainable implementation of UAVs in Rwanda.

Ine Buntinx, César Casiano, Joep Crompvoets

KU Leuven, Belgium

Smart cadaster. Coupling imagery from drones and street-view with proper incentives to promote sustainable urban cadasters in developing countries.

Victor Endo¹, Luis Triveno²

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

A study on supporting reservoir management using spatial information for preparations for drought

Jinwoo Park

LX Korea Land and Geospatial Informatix Corp., Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

Contribution of urban green infrastructure to achieve sustainable development goals: an innovative mechanism to bring different actors together

Sisay Nune Hailemariam

World Bank, Ethiopia

Inclusive development? Paradox of state-led land development in India

Urmi Sengupta¹, Sujeet Sharma²

1: Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom; 2: Architecture, Planning and Environment LTD, United Kingdom

Assessment of urban upgrading interventions in mekong delta region in Vietnam

Mansha Chen¹, Van Thang Nguyen²

1: World Bank, United States of America; 2: National Economics University, Vietnam

Reporting on SDG indicator 1.4.2 for high income countries: the case of the U.S.

Benjamin Linkow¹, Caleb Stevens³, Jennifer Lisher²

1: Landesa, United States of America; 2: Millennium Challenge Corporation, United States of America; 3: USAID, United States of America

Considering the multidimensional nature of tenure security in land policies

Anni Valkonen

University of East Anglia, UK

Measuring perceived tenure insecurity: issues, challenges, and recommendations

Benjamin Linkow

Landesa, United States of America

Discussant (Webex)

Leman Yonca Gurbuzer

Food and Agriculture Organization, Italy

The Global Land Rights Index: a new methodology to measure human rights frameworks for land

Tiernan Mennen

Abt Associates, United States of America

Land Governance Indexes: Opportunities to assess progress of adoption of VGGT principles in policy, legal and institutional framework of land governance

Brian Gideon Washe Kazungu¹, Francisco Carranza²

1: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Kenya; 2: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome (HQ)

Guidelines for effective and impactful SDG reporting of progress on land rights

Diana Fletschner

Landesa, United States of America

Creating effective data and information tools for monitoring the VGGT

Neil Sorensen¹, Laura Meggiolaro¹, Romy Sato²

1: Land Portal Foundation, Netherlands; 2: Global Donor Platform for Rural Development, Germany

Is it possible to collect low-cost household data on slum conditions? Evidence from slum dwellers enumerations

Achilles Kallergis

New York University, United States of America

Evidence-based community-driven mapping: Catalyzing city planning and service provision in Muntinlupa and other cities

Louie Robert Cabaltera Posadas¹, Deanna Ayson², Ruby Papeleras³, Christopher Ebreo¹, Lunalyn Cagan⁴, Danilo Antonio⁴, John Gitau⁴

1: Technical Assistance Movement for People and Environment Inc. (TAMPEI), Philippines; 2: Philippine Action for Community-led Shelter Initiatives Inc. (PACSII), Philippines; 3: Homeless People's Federation Philippines Inc. (HPFPI), Philippines; 4: Global Land Tool Network (GLTN), Kenya

“Information is power only if used “-Improving Tenure security in informal settlements using participatory data collection: The case of Informal settlements in Gobabis Namibia

Menare Royal Mabakeng

Namibia University of Science and Technology

Count me in: the case of improving tenure security of slum dwellers in peri-urban Lusaka

Charity Chinsenda- Kalombo¹, Hellen Nyamweru-Ndungu², Moonga Chilanga³, John Gitau², Oumar Sylla², Danilo Antonio²

1: Lusaka City Council, Zambia; 2: UN Habitat, Kenya; 3: UN Habitat, Zambia

Evaluating the impact of community forestry practices in Sumatra island, Indonesia

Andika Putraditama¹, Yeon-Su Kim², Andrew Sánchez Meador²

1: World Resources Institute, Indonesia; 2: Northern Arizona University, School of Forestry, United States of America

Impact, diffusion and scaling-up of a comprehensive land-use planning approach in the Philippines – Results from a rigorous impact evaluation

Gerald Leppert

DEval - German Institute for Development Evaluation, Germany

Results from land tenure formalization activities in the Senegal River valley: a mixed-methods evaluation at medium-term

Sarah Hughes, William Valletta

Mathematica Policy Research, United States of America

Increasing access to land for housing for Irula tribal families: Lessons from implementing the Solid Ground Campaign in India

Rebecca Ochong¹, Rajan Samuel², Suseela Anand²

1: Habitat for Humanity International, Philippines; 2: Habitat for Humanity, India

Giving the land back to people : solving colonial cases of land-grabbing in Madagascar

Ketakandriana Rafitoson

Transparency International - Initiative Madagascar, Madagascar

Examining how land laws have implemented GLTN tools

Nicholas Tagliarino

UN Habitat, The Netherlands

Sustaining sustainable development: Leveraging human rights structures to implement land-related SDGs

Bethany Roberts

Landesa, United States of America

Appropriateness of land administration domain ontological model for the national land governance and the promotion of foreign investments

Moulay Abdeslam Adad¹, El Hassane Semlali², Moha El-Ayachi³, Fatiha Ibannain⁴

1: ANCFCC, Morocco; 2: IAV Hassan II, Morocco; 3: IAV Hassan II, Morocco; 4: ANCFCC, Morocco

Scaling up the more systematic land certification method in Madagascar – issuing 106,000 land certificates in seven months

Soja Sesy¹, Zo Fanantenana Ravelomanantsoa¹, Danielle Haingonavalona², Lie Maminiaina¹

1: Agriculture Growth and Land Management Project, Madagascar; 2: Ministry of Land Management and Land Tenure, Madagascar

Indicators' assessment of Land Governance in Morocco: a preliminary study

Moha El-ayachi¹, Tayeb Tachallait¹, Omar Amanar², Tarik Ouachaou², Loubna EL Mansouri¹

1: Institute of Agronomy and Veterinary Medecine, Morocco; 2: Graduate Engineers, Morocco

Land Sectoral Policy document: the ultimate challenge for efficient land governance.

Nyamwoga Bayengeha Floribert

D. R. CONGO Government, Congo, Democratic Republic of the

Housing, land and property (HLP) rights for Syrian women

Laura Cunial, Juliette Syn

Norwegian Refugee Council, Syria

Developing land tenure risk indicators in FCV contexts

Paul Prettitore

The World Bank, United States of America

Technology, policy, national systems and local civil society: using a mobile application to protect the housing, land and property rights of displaced people in Honduras

Jamila El Abdellaoui¹, Lorena Nieto Padilla², Juan Carlos Betancur²

1: UNHCR, The Netherlands; 2: UNHCR, Honduras

Environmental peacebuilding through participatory social cartography: land, property and social data mapping of ground zero or most affected area to assist Marawi city recover from violent conflict

Michelle Angelica Go

Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), Republic of the Philippines

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

Modelling land-use change for indigenous socio-economic development: Curve Lake First Nation, Canada

Robert Fligg^1,2

1: Natural Resources Canada; 2: University of Waterloo, Canada

Innovations in Indigenous land tenure in Canada: Reconciliation as the catalyst

Akbarali Karsan, Gavin Lawrence, Robert Fligg, Erin Tompkins, Steven Rogers, Brian Ballantyne

Natural Resources Canada, Canada

Exploring pluralism: building resilience and respect

Raelene Webb

Murray Chambers, Australia

First nations' post-counter map praxis

Francis Cadeau

Royal Roads University, Canada

Global donor working group on land: what is the way forward?

Chris Penrose Buckley

DFID, United Kingdom

Discussant

Mika-Petteri Törhönen

The World Bank, United States of America

Discussant

Fridah Githuku

GROOTS Kenya, Kenya

Discussant

Janak Raj Joshi

Ministry of Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation, Nepal

Discussant

Jolyne Sanjak

Tetratech, United States of America

Discussant

Michael Taylor

International Land Coalition, Italy

Closing remarks

Peter Sidler

Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, Ethiopia

Drones and the structure from motion (SfM) technique in cadastral surveying

Walter Volkmann

MicroAerial Projects LLC, United States of America

Drone-based geomatics land data acquisition methodology - case study: city of Adama and rural area of Mojo, Ethiopia

Sukhee Cho¹, Munseok Lee¹, Solomon Kebede²

1: Hojung Solutions CO. LTD, Korea, Republic of (South Korea); 2: Ministry of Urban Development and Housing, The Government of Ethiopia

Evaluation of UAV-based technology to capture land rights in Kenya: displaying stakeholder perspectives through interactive gaming

Claudia Stocker¹, Mila Koeva¹, Jaap Zevenbergen¹, Rohan Bennett^2,3

1: University of Twente ITC, The Netherlands; 2: Swinburne Business School, Australia; 3: Kadaster International, The Netherlands

The challenges and opportunities of AI and drone technology in land management and poverty assessment

Daniel Cocanu¹, Bogdan Nedelcu², Traian Rebedea¹, Marius Leordeanu²

1: Teamnet, Romania; 2: Autonomous Systems, Romania

Formalizing the informal through incremental tenure strengthening in urban Battambang: Experience on tenure transformation in Cambodia

Rebecca Ochong¹, Bells Regino-Borja², Bernadette Bolo-Duthy², Keo Kanika²

1: Habitat for Humanity International, Philippines; 2: Habitat for Humanity, Cambodia

The Odisha Liveable Habitat Mission: The process and tools behind the world’s largest slum titling project

Frank Pichel¹, Shishir Ranjan Dash², G. Mathivathanan³, Shikha Srivastava²

1: Cadasta Foundation, United States of America; 2: Tata Trusts, India; 3: Housing and Urban Development Department, Government of Odisha State, India

Urban landholding registration in Ethiopia: law and practice

Abdu Hussein

Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia

Poverty, Inequality, and Agriculture in the EU

Joao Pedro Azevedo, Rogier J. E. Van Den Brink, Paul Corral, Montserrat Ávila, Hongxi Zhao, Mohammad-Hadi Mostafavi

The World Bank, United States of America

Small farms, large farms and international productivity differences

Yaoqi Lin¹, Jonathan Conning^1,2

1: The Graduate Center, City University of New York, United States of America; 2: Hunter College, City University of New York, United States of America

The misallocation of land and other factors of production in India

Ejaz Ghani, Gilles Duranton

World Bank, United States of America

At what price? Price supports, agricultural productivity, and misallocation

Nandita Krishnaswamy

University of Southern California, United States of America

Utilizing UAV images for large-scale land development compensation: A case of prevention for compensation speculation in South Korea

Hyeondong Yang

LX Korea Land and Geospatial Informatix Corp., Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

Improve the land acquisition system with a technology based processes approach

Jean Brice Tetka

Transparency International-Secretariat, Germany

Analysing governance in the informal land compensation approaches in customary areas of Ghana

Anthony Arko-Adjei¹, Elias Danyi Kuusaana², Emmanuel Offei Akrofi¹

1: Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana; 2: University of Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana

Valuation and compensation under Zimbabwe post 2000 land reform program

Maxwell Mutema

Independent Consultant, Zimbabwe

Using remote-sensed data and machine learning to measure the impact of Zimbabwe's Fast Track Land Reform Programme on crop cultivation and vegetation quality

Dieter von Fintel^1,2, Tawanda Chingozha¹

1: Stellenbosch University, South Africa; 2: Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, Germany

Land reform policy-induced access to agricultural land and nutritional outcomes in Zimbabwe

Carren Pindiriri, Innocent Matshe

University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe

Building a National Spatial Data Infrastructure one step at a time- the case for Zambia

Emmanuel Tembo, Joseph Minango

Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources, Zambia

Assessing communal land use management related policy /legislative setting and applications in Bir-Temicha watershed, upper Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia

Tenaw Hailu Tedela

GiZ, Africa Union, Ethiopia

Endline evaluation findings for 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, United States of America; 3: United States Agency for International Development, United States of America

The impacts of Second-Level Land Certification (SLLC) in Ethiopia: empirical evidence using panel data

Hosaena Ghebru¹, Fikirte Girmachew²

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

Mobilizing for title: A mixed-methods randomized evaluation of a homestead land rights initiative in Bihar, India

Andre Nickow¹, Sanjay Kumar²

1: Northwestern University, United States of America; 2: Deshkal Society, India

Certified to stay? Experimental evidence on property rights and migration in Benin

Ioana Botea¹, Markus Goldstein¹, Kenneth Houngbedji², Florence Kondylis¹, Michael O'Sullivan¹, Harris Selod¹

1: World Bank, United States of America; 2: Agence Française de Développement, France

Equal partnership in the capacity building project Eduland2: conceptual design, implementation, successes, challenges & lessons learnt

Reinfried Mansberger¹, Sayeh Kassaw Agegnehu², Gerhard Navratil³, Gebeyehu Belay Shibeshi⁴

1: University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Austria; 2: Debre Markos University, Ethiopia; 3: Technische Universitaet Wien, Austria; 4: Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia

Encouraging women’s land rights and promoting female land professionals: A twin track approach to enhancing land governance

Zerfu Hailu Gebrewold, Gladys Savolainen, Tommi Tenno

NIRAS/Ethiopia, Ethiopia

The land research capacity of Africa: new research centre concept for catalysing improved land governance

Uchendu Eugene Chigbu¹, Gaynor Paradza², Simon Peter Mwesigye³

1: Technical University of Munich, Germany; 2: Independent Consultant, South Africa; 3: UN-Habitat / GLTN, Uganda

The ADLAND model: Transformative experiences and lessons in human capital development in land governance in Africa

Pamela Duran Diaz

Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany

Scaling emerging geospatial technologies for land administration: understanding institutional innovation dynamics through a Technological Innovation System perspective

Serene Ho^1,2, Tarek Zein³, Placide Nkerabigwi⁴, Valérie Pattyn^1,5, Joep Crompvoets¹

1: KU Leuven, Belgium; 2: RMIT University, Australia; 3: Hansa Luftbild AG, Germany; 4: INES Ruhengeri, Rwanda; 5: Leiden University, The Netherlands

From registration to sustainability: developments in Rwanda

Nishimwe Marie Grace, Biraro Sam

Rwanda Land Management and Use Authority, Rwanda

EDOGIS comes online, an evaluation

Stephen Calder

GIS/Transport, United States of America

Piloting urban land systematic adjudication and registration in Ethiopia:

Solomon Mammo¹, Alexius Santoni²

1: Federal Urban Land and Landed Property Registry, and Information Agency, Ethiopia; 2: IGN France International, France

The innovative national rural land administration information system of Ethiopia

Tarek Zein¹, Tigistu Gebremeskel², Tommi Tenno³, Yohannes Redda³, Teweldemedhin Aberra⁴

1: Hansa Luftbild AG, Germany; 2: Ministry of Argriculture and Natual Resources, Ethiopia; 3: NIRAS, Finland; 4: IINTAPS, Ethiopia

Use of earth observation and land parcel identification in supporting the implementation of the common agricultural policy

Felix Rembold

Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Italy

Satellite crop monitoring within World Bank project on land management transparency in Ukraine

Nataliia Kussul¹, Denys Nizalov², Andrii Shelestov¹, Mykola Lavreniuk³, Sergii Skakun⁴, Andrii Kolotii¹, Vladimir Vasiliev⁵, Eugene Karlov⁵

1: Space Research Institute of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and State Space Agency of Ukraine; 2: University of Kent/ KEI at KSE, United Kingdom; 3: National Technical University of Ukraine, Ukraine; 4: University of Maryland College Park, United States of America; 5: EOS Data Analytics, Ukraine

Proximate sensing of food types and land uses in Thailand using street-level photography and deep learning

Martha Bohm, John Ringland, So-Ra Baek

University at Buffalo, 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

1: UNIDROIT, Italy; 2: FAO, Italy

Agricultural investments under international investment law

Jesse Coleman¹, Sarah Brewin², Thierry Berger³

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

Stakeholder narratives on tenure transformation in Morocco

David Balgley

Georgetown University, United States of America

The heavy burden of the past - The political economy of rural reform in Colombia.

Camilo Pardo

George Mason University, United States of America

Real change or paper tigers? An assessment of legal support for community property

Liz Alden Wily

independent, Kenya

Scramble for land rights: reducing inequity between communities and companies

Peter Veit

World Resources Institute, United States of America

Madagascar experience with role of tenure in forest restoration

Julien Noel

Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development, Madagascar

Role of tenure in protecting and restoring the Amazon forests

Brenda Brito do Carmo

Imazon, Brazil

Lessons from tenure and gender research for restoration

Anne Larson

CIFOR, Peru

Discussant

Fritz Jung

Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany

Discussant

Delfin Jr Ganapin

World Wide Fund for Nature International (WWF International), Singapore

The importance of land reform for agricultural transformation

Henri Eyebe Ayissi

Ministry of State Property, Surveys and Land Tenure, Cameroon

Enhancing land tenure security and functioning of land markets in Zambia

H.E. Vincent Mwale

Ministry of Local Government, Zambia

Towards secure land rights for all in Uganda: Remaining challenges and ways of monitoring progress

Dorcas Wagima Okalany

Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Uganda

Key challenges to advancing land tenure security in Malawi

Janet L. Banda SC.

Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Malawi

Market access, property rights and small-holder farming in colonial Southern Rhodesia

Tawanda Chingozha¹, Dieter von Fintel^1,2

1: Stellenbosch University, South Africa; 2: Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn, Germany

The role of informal institutions in change: land reform in urban and peri-urban Ghana

Devanne Brookins

Harvard, United States of America

Customary institutions and customary land tenure: Regulating dualism to inhibit land-related conflicts?

Daniela Monika Behr¹, Roos Haer²

1: World Bank, United States of America; 2: Leiden University, The Netherlands

The legacy of Mexican land and water in California

Gary Libecap¹, Dean Lueck², Julio Ramos-Pastrana²

1: University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER, United States of America; 2: Indiana University, United States of America

Local Land Charges - Laying the foundation of a new national digital service.

Allison Bradbury, Emma Vincent, Nick Eccles

HM Land Registry, United Kingdom

Digitalization of public registers and the role of legal professionals – a connection for the future

Lovro Tomasic

GIZ/Bundesnotarkammer, Germany

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 socio-economic impact of implementing land registration and land information systems in Saudi Arabia

Philip Auerswald¹, Muhamad Alrajhi²

1: George Mason University, United States of America; 2: Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Crop prices and the demand for titled land: evidence from Uganda

Viviana Maria Eugenia Perego

The World Bank, United States of America

The effects of land title registration on tenure security, investment and production: evidence from Ghana

Andrew Agyei-Holmes², Niklas Buehren¹, Markus Goldstein¹, Robert Osei², Isaac Osei-Akoto², Christopher Udry³

1: World Bank, United States of America; 2: Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research, Ghana; 3: Northwestern University, Department of Economicsm, United States of America

Early lessons from the evaluation of land management reforms in Cabo Verde

Audrey Moore, Evan Borkum, Irina Cheban

Mathematica Policy Research, United States of America

Linking irrigated land and water scarcity: a global view

Susanne Maria Scheierling, David Olivier Treguer

World Bank, United States of America

Land and water: the rights divergence

Stephen Hodgson

SPRL KH & Associates, Belgium

Intensification of irrigated agriculture: the case of the Boudnib plain in Morocco

Omar Aloui², Anne Chohin-Kuper¹, Mathilde Crosnier³, Jeanne Chiche⁴

1: Independent consultant, Morocco; 2: Agroconcept, Romania; 3: INRA SAD, ISARA Lyon, France; 4: IAV Hassan II, Morocco

Irrigation Modernization in Spain: what influences the Effects on Water?

Elena Lopez-Gunn¹, Manuel Bea¹, Rosa Huertas², Victor del Barrio³, Javier Fernandez Pereira³

1: ICATALIST, Spain; 2: Valladolid City Council, Spain; 3: Duero River basin agency, Spain

Leveraging national land and geospatial systems for improved disaster resilience

Abbas Rajabifard¹, Mika-Petteri Törhönen², Katie Potts¹, Alvaro federico Barra², Ivelisse Justiniano²

1: The University of Melbourne, Australia; 2: The World Bank, United States of America

Integrating land and geospatial systems for disaster resilience – the need for technical and institutional innovation

Katie Potts¹, Abbas Rajabifard¹, Serene Ho¹, Kate Rickersey², Mika-Petteri Torhonen³

1: The University of Melbourne, Australia; 2: Land Equity International, Australia; 3: World Bank, United States of America

Comprehensive disaster risk management – best practice example of Monastir, Tunisia

Rainer Malmberg, Elke Krätzschmar, Felicitas Bellert, Konstanze Fila

IABG mbH, Germany

The earth observation for sustainable development initiative to support states affected by fragility, conflict and violence

Christophe Sannier¹, Jean-Yves Le Bras², Andy Dean³, Mathieu Domingo⁴, Sébastien Delbour¹, Aline Duplaa²

1: SIRS, France; 2: CLS, France; 3: Hatfield Group, Canada; 4: UNITAR, Switzerland

Cities and good urban land management practice as a catalyst for climate change adaptation in developing countries: case of Blantyre city, Malawi

Costly Chanza

Blantyre City Council, Malawi

Developing voluntary gender responsive relocation policy guidelines to support sustainable urban development

Sanjeevani Singh¹, Siraj Sait²

1: Habitat for Humanity International, United States of America; 2: University of East London

An assessment of youth land rights in rural Liberia

Elizabeth Louis¹, Tasha Heidenrich¹, Tizal Mauto¹, Emmanuel Urey¹, Benjamin Linkow¹, Ailey Hughes¹, Peter Dolo²

1: Landesa, United States of America; 2: Development Education Network, Liberia

Harnessing the potential for rural youth-inclusive agri-food systems livelihoods: A landscape analysis

Gina Rico Mendez, Mary Read-Wahidi, Kathleen Ragsdale

Mississippi State University, United States of America

Land access and youth spatial and occupational mobility in Africa: the case of Nigeria

Hosaena Ghebru¹, Mulubrhan Amare¹, George Mavrotas², Adebayo Ogunniyi²

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

Using a multi-lateral organisation to catalyse institutional innovation at global scale: Evidence from the work of the Global Land Tool Network partners

Clarissa Augustinus

Independent consultant, Ireland

An innovative experience of capacity building for land in Central Africa

Paul Tchawa

University of Yaoundé 1, Cameroon

Importance of capacity building and training in the World Bank assisted projects - Case study of Serbia

Olivera Vasovic, Borko Draskovic, Dragan Pavlovic, Nada Teodosijevic

Republic Geodetic Authority, Serbia

Data conversion and integration in the implementation of national land information systems in Uganda and Tanzania

Patrick Stimpson, Mark Griffin, Aurélie Milledrogues, Alexius Santoni, Christopher Burke

IGN FI, Uganda

National land information system as a catalyst for the greater integration of spatial data in Uganda

Richard Oput¹, Patrick Stimpson², Aurélie Milledrogues², Alexius Santoni², Christopher Burke²

1: Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development (MLHUD), Republic of Uganda; 2: IGN FI, Uganda

Implementation of an integrated land information management system (ILMIS) for Tanzania

Mark Griffin¹, Barney Laseko², Carol Roffer³, Aurelie Milledrogues¹, Christopher Burke¹

1: IGN FI, United Kingdom; 2: Prime Minister's Office, The United Republic of Tanzania; 3: Innola Solutions, United States of America

The use of modified data capture tool for securing Land and resource rights for Customary tenure in Uganda

William Kambugu, John Richard Oput

Ministry of Lands,Housing and Urban Development, Uganda

The impact of land corruption on human rights. insights from transparency international 's land and corruption in Africa programme

Farai Mutondoro¹, Mary Maneno², Michael Okai³, Amanda Shivamba⁴

1: Transparency International Zimbabwe; 2: Transparency International Kenya; 3: Ghana Intergrity Intiative; 4: Corruption Watch

An analysis of dispute resolution systems as a means to fighting land corruption and promotion of access to justice – the case of Kenya, Ghana and Zimbabwe

Samuel Kimeu¹, Mary Maneno¹, Michael Okai², Farai Mutondoro³

1: Transparency International, Kenya; 2: Ghana Integrity Initiative, Ghana; 3: Transparency International, Zimbabwe

Redress for land rights violations and the legal empowerment agenda

Brendan Schwartz¹, Masalu Luhula², Tomaso Ferrando³, Hayden Fairburn³, Lorenzo Cotula¹

1: International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), United Kingdom; 2: Tanzania Natural Resources Forum (TNRF), Tanzania; 3: Global Legal Action Network (GLAN)

Bylaws to improve land value and conflict resolution experience in Tanzania:

Tumsifu Mushi

Tanzania Natural Resource Forum, Tanzania

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

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

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

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

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

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

Andrew Dillon¹, Lakshman Nagraj Rao²

1: Northwestern University, USA; 2: Asian 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

Conference wrap-up

Albert Zeufack

World Bank, United States of America

Lessons from the conference for land policy in Africa

Janet L. Banda SC.

Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Malawi

Takeaways on ways for strengthening land governance in LAC

Ivan Jacopetti do Lago

IRIB, Brazil

Lessons for the land administration profession

Rudolf Staiger

FIG- International Federation of Surveyors, Germany

Next frontiers for research on land policy and implementation

Jintao Xu

Peking University, China, People's Republic of

Opportunities for leveraging the private sector

Issa Faye

IFC, United States of America

Closing remarks

Klaus Deininger

World Bank, United States of America