Conference Agenda

Anthropic activities and sustainability of the natural resources of the Lomako-Yokokala Fauna Reserve (RFLY) in DR Congo.

Sankiana Malankanga Gerard

Higher Institute of Agronomic Studies of Mvuazi, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Implementing approach for responsibility management of pasture use in

Gerlee Shuuduv, Batbileg Bayaraa

Mongolian University of Life Sciences, Mongolia

Kyrgyz pastures - nomad heritage (traditional approaches in pasture degradation struggle)

Elvira Maratova, Abdimalik Egemberdiev

KYRGYZ JAYITY National pasture users' association, Kyrgyzstan

Farm’s natural resources management strategy

Kjeld van Wieringen, Kevin Kiffer, Marine Gourves

Mercy Corps, Democratic Republic of the Congo

"Developing community-based land use planning system using the community resource management area (CREMA) model in Ghana

Offei Affam Jerry^1,2, Mensah Frederick², Acquah Kwaku Nyamekye³

¹Kukje Theological University, Republic of Korea (South Korea); ²Pals of the Earth-Ghana; ³Take Care Africa Foundation-Ghana

Documenting communal land rights: understanding the use and management of communal land in the highland regions of Ethiopia

Felicity Buckle, John Leckie

DAI, United Kingdom

Land tenancy, contract term and land conservation-theoretical and empirical analyses on apple growers

Lianhua Zhang, Xuexi Huo

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

Sustainable practices diffusion in socio-ecological systems: the Gorutuba Irrigation Perimeter (Brazil) analysis

Rafael Faria de Abreu Campos^1,2, Dênis Antônio da Cunha³, Newton Paulo Bueno⁴

¹Regional Economics Applications Laboratory / The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; ²Centro de Desenvolvimento e Planejamento Regional / Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais; ³Universidade Federal de Viçosa; ⁴FUCAPE Business School

Building on local pastoralists’ knowledge for effective management of the arid and semi arid areas

Deborah Muricho¹, David Otieno¹, Willis Kosura¹, Magnus Jistrom²

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

Forest planning decision model to restore forest denudation of N. Korea

Wonho Lee, Hyeonggeun Kim

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

ILMS - global land transfer standard

James Kavanagh¹, Duncan Moss²

¹RICS, United Kingdom; ²Ordnance Survey, United Kingdom

Measuring multi-dimensional poverty analysis in Nepal: a study of poverty alleviation fund intervention programme districts

Nahakul K.C.

Poverty Alleviation Fund Nepal, Nepal

Monitoring progress towards the 2030 sustainability goals: "Trends.Earth" as a support tool for achieving land degradation neutrality

Mariano Gonzalez-Roglich, Alex Zvoleff, Monica Noon

Conservation International, United States of America

Weak signals for future cadastral systems

Kirsikka Riekkinen^1,2, Pauliina Krigsholm², Oluwafemi Adekola¹

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

A practical method for evaluating institutional arrangements and policy indicators of land administration system

Samsudin Salfarina, Suratman Robiah

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia

Evolution régimes foncier en Guinée-Conakry

Barry Alpha Amadou

Cabinet CAGEOFI - OGEG, Guinea

Spatial flood damage assessment mapping in Abeokuta

Ayoola Akingbogun

Pointmile Geotech, Nigeria

Achieving SDGs through land consolidation in rural regions of Uttar Pradesh state in India

Aswani Kumar Munnangi, Bharat Lohani, Subhas Chandra Misra, Vipul Sharma

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India

International Standards – key to unlocking the value of green buildings?

Benjamin Lee Elder

RICS, United Kingdom

Transforming social norms about women’s land and property rights

Lori Rolleri, Manisha Mehta

Wellspring Philanthropic Fund, United States of America

Opportunities for innovation: lessons from land rights work in the African Great Lakes Region.

David Betge

ZOA, The Netherlands

Protecting Ugandan customary land tenure through documentation of Principles, Practices, Rights and Responsibilities (PPRR)

Liz Neate, Judy Adoko

LEMU: Land and Equity Movement in Uganda, Uganda

Of the substantive law in the common law: where is the blocking limiting the access to the landed property of the women in Côte d'Ivoire

Guy Oscar Sical Toukpo, Honnéo Gabin Tarrouth

UNIVERSITE FELIX HOUPHOUET BOIGNY, Côte d'Ivoire

Leveraging the Sustainable Development Goals to strengthen women’s land rights: takeaways from the espaco feminista model in Brazil

Gina Alvarado¹, Patricia Maria Queiroz Chaves², Diana Fletschner¹

¹Landesa, United States of America; ²Espaço Feminista, Brazil

Financial inclusion through increasing land access rights and improving security of tenure a major pillar to reduce inequality and poverty in Uganda

Cissy Namuddu Settumba Kiyaga, Simon Kabogoza, Bashir Kizito Juma, David Kyewalabye-Male

Buganda Land Board, Uganda

Delving into the relationship between land tenure and food security using the case of Ayeyarwaddy, Myanmar

Gina Alvarado, Elizabeth Louis, Vinod Dharmarajan, Cathrin Anderson, Mark West

Landesa, United States of America

The impact of land rights regularization on the cassava technology adoption among smallholder farmers in Mozambique: the case of pro-poor value chain development project in the Maputo and Limpopo corridors (PROSUL)

Daniel Ozias Mate, Constantino Estevão Cuambe, Daniel Vasco Simango, Pinto Novo Zeca Stella

Agricultural Development Fund (FDA)/ Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (MASA), Mozambique

Gender and land acquisition: implications for agricultural development in Nigeria.

Olubunmi Lawrence Balogun, Taofeek Ayodeji Ayo-Bello, Kayode Ayantoye

Babcock University, Nigeria; Babcock University, Nigeria; Kwara State University, Nigeria

Integrating strategic peacebuilding approach into land and environmental conflict resolution for better Indonesia peace infrastructure

Novita Liangga Kumala

University of Notre Dame, United States of America

From commitment to practice: lessons from efforts to implement corporate policies to respect land rights

Mina Manuchehri, Scott Schang

Landesa

Strengthening farmers’ land rights in Malawi

Dr Janet Banda SC¹, Felix Mangani¹, Davie Chilonga¹, Mishek Longwe¹, David Harris²

¹Ministry of Lands, Housing & Urban Development, Malawi; ²DAI Europe

Refugees influx, land access and second generation health outcomes in host communities: evidence from Tanzania

Soazic Elise Wang Sonne

The World Bank Group

The conceptual framework on women’s land tenure security: an action tool

Amanda Richardson, Elisa Scalise, Renee Giovarelli

Resource Equity

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

Danny Lattimore, Wacha Ben, Grace Loumo

Action for Women and Awakening in Rural Environment Uganda, Uganda

From culture to human rights; unmasking the gendered perspectives in the application of law and existing culture in protecting vulnerable widow’s land rights.

Jessica Oluoch

KELIN Kenya, Kenya

Housing provision and land rights in the quilombola community Ribeirão da Mutuca (Brazil).

Elizabeth Othon de Souza

Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade de São Paulo - FAUUSP, Brazil

Grassroots women’s land rights for development

Nakwang Violet Loumo, Danny Lattimore

Action for Women and Awakening in Rural Environment Uganda, Uganda

Norms formation: California gold rush and women's roles

Sandra Aguilar-Gomez¹, Anja Benshaul-Tolonen²

¹Columbia University, United States of America; ²Barnard College, United States of America

Innovative approaches in transforming social norms for strengthened women's land rights and security of tenure

Frances Birungi Odong

Uganda Community Based Association for Women and Children's welfare ( UCOBAC), Uganda

Land grabbing and the land justice movement in Taiwan

Grace Li-Min Liao¹, Shih-Jung Hsu²

¹China University of Technology, Taiwan; ²National Chengchi University, Taiwan

Peaceful land for future citizen

Yalemzewid Demssie Fantaye

Ministry of Agriculture, Ethiopia

Tenure responsive land governance: the case of government-community partnership towards improving livelihoods in Kenya and Uganda

Agatha Wanyonyi¹, Oumar Sylla¹, Harold Liversage²

¹UN-Habitat, Kenya; ²IFAD

Land tenure in Sub-Saharan Africa and its implications for access and benefit-sharing to bio-diversity

Ayodele Adewole

University of Jos, Nigeria

Legal establishments and gendered access to land in patriarchal societies of North-Western Ghana

Paul Boniface Akaabre, Kizito Doghle, Rudith S. King

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana

Women’s life cycle as a pathway to land rights on customary tenure in west Nile region of Uganda: lessons for certification and titling.

Herbert Kamusiime¹, Naome Kabanda², Christine Kajumba¹, Eddie Nsamba-Gayiiya³, Margaret Rugadya⁴

¹Associates Research Uganda; ²Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development; ³Consultant Surveyors and Planners; ⁴Global Expert - Land and Natural Resources

Practical approaches to implementing and monitoring free, prior and informed consent processes

Luis Felipe Duchicela

Equitable Origin, United States of America

The impact of land rights regularization on the cassava technology adoption among smallholder farmers in Mozambique: the case of pro-poor value chain development project in the Maputo and Limpopo corridors (PROSUL)

Daniel Ozias Mate, Constantino Estevão Cuambe, Daniel Vasco Simango, Pinto Novo Zeca Stella, Rubino Francesco

Agricultural Development Fund (FDA)/ Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (MASA), Mozambique

Innovative approaches for promoting gender responsive land governance processes for strengthened women’s land rights and equitable land rights: application of the Gender Evaluation Criteria on land rights registration processes on customary land

Frances Birungi Odong¹, Antonio Danilo², Simon Peter Mwesigye²

¹Uganda Community Based Association for Women and Children's Welfare (UCOBAC), Uganda; ²UN Habitat/ Global Land Tools Network

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

Okwi Tonny

Action for Women and Awakening in Rural Environment Uganda, Uganda

The land tenure system in Bangladesh: trends, challenges and options for reforms

Laskar Muqsudur Rahman

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Bangladesh

Discourse on Customary Land Act 2016: evolution of land rights or devolution of powers

Edward Chikhwenda

University of Malawi Polytechnic, Malawi

Today's urban families are rapidly losing their connections and kinship ties with rural families, making the new generations ignorant about the ways of life, production processes, and food origins that are served at the table

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

¹Secretary of the Association of Notaries and Registrars of the State of Mato Grosso- Brazil; ²Lowyer, Brazil; ³Notary, Brazil

Land-based livelihoods and gender vulnerability: a study of cultural inheritance practices in select African states

Bankole Sulihaj Allibay

Translantic Development Limited, United Kingdom

Land regularization of quilombola community in Brazil

Daniella Farias Scarassatti¹, Delaíde Silva Passos², Adâmara Santos GonçalvesFelício³, Isabelle Picelli⁴, Bastiaan Philip Reydon⁵

¹Campinas City Hall, Brazil; ²University of Campinas; ³University of Campinas; ⁴Instituto Nacional de Colonização e Reforma Agrária; ⁵University of Campinas

Human rights and land policy in quilombola lands: a decade of construction (2008-2018)

Delaide Passos¹, Adâmara Felício¹, Bastiaan Reydon¹, Richard Torsiano², Daniella Scarassatti¹

¹UNICAMP, Brazil; ²FAO, Brazil

Towards a responsive customary land rights security in rural Ghana: adopting a rural titling approach

Derek Osei-Tutu, Michael Appiah

Lands Commission, Ghana

State land inventories using the voluntary guidelines on the responsible governance of tenure (VGGT) - case of Madagascar

Herilala Axel Fanomezantsoa¹, Jean ousmane Camara², Rinda herrick Andriamitaha³, Edson samuel Noharinjanahary⁴

¹Consultant; ²Land Reform Coordination Unit; ³Cercom; ⁴Essa

Role of income distribution and consumption expenditure on agriculture output: case of Nigeria

Irfan Ahmed¹, Hassan Kasady Al Mahdi¹, Claudio Socci²

¹Jazan University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,; ²University of Macerata, Italy

Government intervention for superior land acquisition outcomes

Sankalp Sharma¹, Tajamul Haque², Anil Giri³

¹Kent State University - Tuscarawas, United States of America; ²NITI Aayog, India; ³University of Central Missouri, United States of America

Local infrastructure effects: large-scale land acquisition.

Rasangi Himesha Hewakopara

Ministry of Lands & Parliamentary Reforms, Sri Lanka

The dichotomy of tenure arrangements and its effects on land acquisition and compensation: evidence from Zambia

Christopher Mulenga¹, Anthony Mushinge², Sam Mwando³

¹University of Lusaka, Zambia; ²Copperbelt University, Zambia; ³Namibia University of Science and Technology, Namibia

Identifying yield gap and potential crop production in Ethiopia, Gambella Region

Azeb Degife

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany

Monitoring large-scale land acquisitions using open data platforms for improved decision making

Mercy Ojoyi

Land Matrix Initiative, South Africa

Implementation of infrastructure expansion projects in Tanzania: -the property rights quagmire

Felician Komu¹, Agnes Mwasumbi²

¹Majengo Estates Dev, Tanzania; ²Land Administration Unit, Ardhi University, Tanzania

Le soutien des communautés locales à la maîtrise de la gestion foncière : un bon prétexte de déploiement de nouveaux outils de sécurisation du foncier et d’acquisition des terres

Ndeye Coura Mbaye Diop¹, Alain Diouf¹, Pape Samba Ndiaye¹, Aliou Bassoum¹, André Teyssier²

¹PDIDAS, Senegal; ²Banque Mondiale

Displacement in the name of development: insights from Zimbabwe

Fadzai Chipato

China Agricultural University, People's Republic of China

Gold mining in Eastern Cameroon: The rights of artisanal miners in the face of semi-mechanized mining

Hyacinthe Eric Bamamen Bisil¹, Brendan Schwartz², Jaff Napoléon Bamenjo³

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

The bottlenecks in large scale land acquisition for agriculture: a case study of Azama, Inikorogha and Opuede communities in Gbaramatu Kingdom.

Angela Kesiena Etuonovbe^1,3, Bosin Boi Ebikeme², Alfred Tortor², Eugene Takpobunor Etuonovbe³

¹Angene Surveys & Consultants, Nigeria; ²Gbaramatu Kingdom; ³GFSH Consult Ltd, Nigeria

Lessons from the promised land: a case study of ‘land for land’ compensation for the Buseruka Oil Refinery, Uganda

Liz Neate

LEMU: Land and Equity Movement in Uganda, Uganda

Impact of land fragmentation on productivity and profitability of crops in Pakistan

Rakhshanda Kousar¹, Muhammad Sohail Amjad Makhdum², Tahira Sadaf¹, M.Bilal Liaqat¹

¹University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan; ²Government College University Faisalabad, Pakistan

Land

Bixia Hu

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

Land readjustment: the missing link in progressive urban land management in Zimbabwe

Charles Chavunduka

University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe

Polycentricity; a panacea for managing urban expansion in secondary towns? A planning scenario study of Mumias Town, Western Kenya

Herbert Musoga

National Land Commission, Kenya

Design and implement of discount-oriented businesses based on the sale of targeted partnership shares and improved Government’s rules and regulations

Jafar Oshriyeh, Maryam Foroozan

Islamic Republic of Iran

An analysis of the effects of urban expansion and housing problems on resident’s quality of life in the outskirts of Lagos, Nigeria

Abimbola Omolabi

Yaba College of Technology, Yaba- Lagos, Nigeria

Research on the moderate-scale of apple farmers in different targets

Congying Zhang, Qian Chang, Xuexi Huo

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

Urban population modeling: towards a better planning

Eduardo Perez-Denicia, Ricardo Ochoa-Sosa, Jose Eduardo Diaz-Azcunaga

CAPSUS, Mexico

Land use change detection and prediction using GIS and Remote Sensing, case study of Nsukka Urban, Enugu, Nigeria

Victor Chukwuemeka Nnam¹, Jude Ejike Okonkwor²

¹Surveyors Council of Nigeria (SURCON), Nigeria; ²Department of Surveying and Geoinformatics, Enugu State University of Science and Technology, Nigeria

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

Formalization of rural land rights transactions; the search for an innovative approach in Ethiopia

Andrew Smith¹, Gizachew Abegaz¹, Michel Magis¹, Menberu Allebachew², Assefa Admassie³

¹DAI, Ethiopia; ²Niras; ³Ethiopian Economic Association, Ethiopia

Fit for purpose in Brazil: a successful test case of fast and affordable land administration in Mato Grosso

Bastiaan Reydon¹, Mathilde Molendijk², Gabriel Siqueira¹, Nicolas Arroyo², Luciana Vasquez¹

¹Universidade Estadual de Campinas - UNICAMP, Brazil; ²Kadaster International - Netherlands, The Netherlands