Conference Agenda

Survey Solutions: An open source software to collect socio-economic and spatial data

Sergiy Radyakin, Michael Lokshin

World Bank, United States of America

Practical experience with mapping informal farms and houses in Zambia

Emmanuel Tembo³, Frank Kakungu², Kelvin Chibangula³, Shadreck Mutti¹

¹World Bank, Zambia; ²Central Statistics Office, Zambia; ³MLNR, Zambia

Combining drone imagery, street view, cadastral data and machine learning for urban development

Luis Triveno

World Bank, United States of America

Data collaboratives: How data sharing can yield better insights

Holly Krambeck, Sarah Antos

World Bank, United States of America

Building capacity to use drone imagery for land administration and management: Opportunities and challenges

Edward Anderson

World Bank group, Tanzania

Linking cadastral data & imagery to assess cultivation status of large land acquisitions: Examples from Ethiopia and Malawi

Brad Bottoms

New Light Technologies, United States of America

Identifying changes in housing investments using satellite imagery

Dunstan Matekenya

World Bank, United States of America

Using census maps to put chiefs' areas on the map: Evidence from Malawi

Julius Brian Chawezi Chisi¹, Emmanuel Nkurunziza², Davie Chilonga¹

¹Ministry of Lands Housing and Urban Development, Malawi; ²RCMRD, Kenya

Using the SDG module to assess to documents, tenure insecurity, and demand for title

Daniel Ayalew Ali¹, Klaus Deininger¹, Emmanuel Tembo², Frank Kakungu³, YuanYuan Yi¹

¹World Bank, United States of America; ²MLNR, ZambiaCSO, Zambia; ³CSO, zambia

Land inequality and development: Potential lessons for Africa from East Asia’s experience

Richard Frank Studwell

Overseas Development Institute, United Kingdom

History of ESF consultation and what was agreed and why

Jonathan Lindsay

World Bank, United States of America

The importance and implication of the ESF to provide support and supervise projects

Noreen Beg

World Bank, United States of America

The importance and implications of the new ESF for land projects and for projects with land components / issues

Jorge Munoz

World Bank, United States of America

ESF and land issues in Africa

Robin Mearns

World Bank, United States of America

What Governments can do to harness the potential of big data

Julia Lane

NYU, United States of America

Benefits from open access to cadastral data: Lessons from Uruguay

Sylvia Amado

DNC, Uruguay

Technology for Simplification and Modernisation of the Common agricultural Policy

Felix Rembold

Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Italy

Opening remarks

Kristalina I. Georgieva

World Bank, United States of America

Digital technologies and land governance in Africa

Estherine Lisinge Fotabong

AUDA-NEPAD, South Africa

Land policies to allow effective urban service delivery and expansion: Ethiopia’s experience

H.E. Jantirar Abay Yigzaw

Ministry of Urban Development and Construction, Ethiopia

Why regularizing informal properties in Chile is a priority

Alejandra Bravo Hidalgo

Ministry of National Assets, Chile

Keynote: Linking satellite and administrative data for land economics research and practice

Adam Storeygard

Tufts University, United States of America

Building on new data for evidence-based land policy in Africa

Njuguna Ndung'u

African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), Kenya

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