Conference Agenda

Opening remarks

Godfrey Bahiigwa

African Union Commission, Ethiopia

The role of land governance in achieving Agenda 2063 and SDGs

Dr. Ibrahim Assane Mayaki

AUDA-NEPAD, South Africa

Consolidating transparent land administration and land revenue generation in Uganda

Hon. Betty Ongom Amongi

Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Uganda

The way forward on land reform in Namibia: lessons from the 2nd National Land Conference

Hon. Utoni Nujoma

Ministry of Land Reform, Namibia

Strengthening land governance in Mali

Hon. Mohamed M. Sidibe

Ministry of Housing and Urban Planning, Mali

Increasing the transparency and decentralization in Ukrainian land relations

Liudmyla Shemelynets, Dmytro Makarenko

State Service of Ukraine for Geodesy, Cartography and Cadastre, Ukraine

Roll-out of e-services and e-auctions - progress and challenges ahead

Denis Bashlyk

State Service of Ukraine for Geodesy, Cartography and Cadastre, Ukraine

Towards a methodology for automatic cadastral error identification

Vladimir Popov

World Bank, Ukraine

World Bank support to help improve land governance in Ukraine

David Egiashvili, Sandra Broka, Klaus Deininger

World Bank, Ukraine

Increasing cadastral survey productivity to tackle undocumented land rights worldwide: A case study

Stephanie Michaud

Trimble Inc, United States of America

Large-scale Mapping

Poul Noergaard

Leica Geosystem, Denmark

An innovative affordable and decentralized model for land registration and administration at a national scale in Tanzania

Tressan Sullivan, Malaki Msigwa, Gilead Mushaija, Mustapha Issa, Alexander Sololov

DAI Global LLC, Tanzania

Leveraging location-enabled street photos and machine learning to automate large-scale data collection in support of property valuation

Tim Fella, Katherine Smyth

ESRI, United States of America

A tripartite normative interaction in land registration: inheritance and land information updating

Zaid Abubakari, Christine Richter, Jaap A. Zevenbergen

University of Twente, Netherlands

Women and customary land tenure: emerging developments and ways forward in Savelugu, Ghana

Prince Donkor Ameyaw¹, Uchendu Eugene Chigbu¹, Walter Timo de Vries¹, Simon Peter Mwesigye², Eric Yeboah³

¹Techninical University of Munich, Germany; ²UN-Habitat / Global Land Tool Network, Uganda; ³Kwame Nkrumah Univerisy of Science and Technonology, Ghana

Securing property rights for Women and children through Distributed Ledger Technology in Judiciary

Manohar Velpuri

Absolutum Consultancy Private Limited, India

Women and land: A conflict of culture and law

Beverly Mumbo, Miriam Wachira, Caroline Oduor, Teresa Omondi

Federation of Women Layers, Kenya

Land and human rights, gender and indigenous people of Kaduna state, Nigeria

Abdullahi Tukur, Altine Jibril, Umar Ahmed Abubakar

Kaduna Geographic Information Service, Nigeria

World Bank-funded land titling in Piauí, Brazil: a pillar of growth or a regularization of land grabs?

Douglas Hertzler¹, Maria Luisa Mendonça², Gerardo Cerdas Vega³, Emmanuel Ponte³, Altamiran Ribeiro⁴

¹ActionAid USA, United States of America; ²Rede Social de Justiça e Direitos Humanos, Brasil; ³ActionAid Brasil, Brasil; ⁴Comissão Pastoral da Terra, Brasil

Land tenure, gender, and productivity in Ethiopia and Tanzania

Tigist Mekonnen Melesse, Yesuf M. Awel

The World Bank (USA), UNU-MERIT (The Netherlands) and Jimma University (Ethiopia)

The Impacts of land tenure regularisation programme in Rwanda

Bernis Byamukama¹, Jim Grabham²

¹UK Department for International Development, Rwanda; ²Mokoro ltd

Democratizing the data revolution: bringing local perspectives to the surface

Lisette Mey, Laura Meggiolaro

Land Portal Foundation, Netherlands, The

Capturing data gaps: comparative study on availability of land data in Africa

Lisette Mey¹, Michael Odhiambo², Laura Meggiolaro¹

¹Land Portal Foundation, Netherlands, The; ²People, Land and Rural Development, Kenya

The role of people-centered data in land governance monitoring: preliminary results from the Dashboard Initiative

Eva Hershaw¹, Ward Anseeuw²

¹International Land Coalition; ²International Land Coalition, CIRAD

Developing a country stakeholder strategy for the global property right perception survey (Prindex)

David Ameyaw, Malcolm Childress

International Center for Evaluation and Development, Kenya

Rwanda land registration is complete – now what? the view of an NGO.

Annie Kairaba¹, Bernis Byamukama²

¹Rwanda Initiative for Sustainable Development (RISD), Rwanda; ²Department for International Development (DFID), Rwanda

Common pool resource access rights and wrongs: Insights from Ghana

Patrick Opoku

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH, Ghana

Spatial planning for land use and protection as an anti-poverty tool in rural areas: case study of innovative approaches on the USAID-funded agriculture and rural development support project

Sergii Kubakh, Patrick Rader

Chemonics International Inc.

The official biological killing of productive land under the silence of a class of citizens and applause of others: when all contribute in destroying living land!!!

Abdelkader Marouane¹, Abderrezak Benhabib²

¹Ibn Khaldoun University of Tiaret (Algeria); ²Abou-Bekr Blekaid University of Tlemcen (Algeria)

Improving governance of tenure: Technology as the enabler

Wordsworth Odame Larbi¹, Maria Paola Rizzo²

¹FAO, Ethiopia; ²FAO, HQ, Italy

Self-declaration of value: an option for the urban property tax

William McCluskey¹, Riel Franzsen¹, Peadar Davis²

¹African Tax Institute, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa; ²School of the Built Environment, University of Ulster, N. Ireland, UK

Valuing property with bad data: utilizing GIS and spatial modeling to achieve equitable property tax valuations in the face of incomplete data

Paul Bidanset¹, Jones Brent²

¹IAAO; ²Esri

Response surface analysis (RSA): modeling values in geographically sparse markets

William Mccluskey¹, Paul Bidanset², Peadar Davis³, Michael McCord³

¹African Tax Institute, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa; ²International Association of Assessing Officers, Kansas, United States; ³School of the Built Environment, University of Ulster, N. Ireland, UK

Standard price points in spatial interpolation. A case study

Risto Peltola, Mikko Korpela, Pauliina Krigsholm, Arthur Kreivi

National Land Survey, Finland

Using remote sensing data and machine learning to value property in Kigali, Rwanda

Felix Bachofer¹, Jonathan Bower², Andreas Braun³, Paul Brimble⁴, Patrick McSharry⁵

¹German Aerospace Center; ²International Growth Centre, Rwanda; ³University of Tübingen; ⁴Ministry of Economic and Financial Planning, Rwanda; ⁵Carnegie Mellon University

Informality in access to land and deforestation in the legal Amazon: an empirical study of the state of Acre

João Paulo Mastrangelo^1,2, Bastiaan Philip Reydon², Pedro Cavalcante Filho², Rosângela Ballini², Adâmara Felício², Dallas de Souza², Claudio Cavalcante³, Antonio Marcos Silva³, Rafael Garrafiel³

¹Federal University of Acre, Brazil; ²University of Campinas; ³State Secretary for the Environment

Last Forests Standing: Deforestation prevention with land-use monitoring and valuation in Côte D’Ivoire

Neeraj Baruah

Vivid Economics, United Kingdom

Land use Management in Nigeria: the role of Remote Sensing

Mayowa Ajibola¹, Aderemi Adeyemo², Charles Ayo¹, Gideon Adeyemi¹

¹Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria; ²Lead City University, Ibadan, Nigeria

Comparative evaluation of the registered information in the Rural Environmental Registry base under the Federal Cerrado Project

Lilianna Gomes¹, Carlos Pires², Rebecca Fiore³, Janaína Rocha¹, Carlos Sturm¹, Gabriela Gonçalves¹, Leandro Biondo¹, Bernardo Trovão¹, Rejane Mendes¹

¹Brazilian Forest Service, Brazil; ²The World Bank, Brazil; ³Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Brazil

New trends in development of agricultural land consolidation in Russia

Alexander Sagaydak, Anna Sagaydak

State University of Land Use Planning, Russian Federation

An analysis of long-term experiences with land consolidation projects

Riekkinen Kirsikka⁴, Walter Timo de Vries², Hendrikus Johannes {Rik} Wouters¹, Kalle Konttinen³

¹Dutch Cadastre, Land Registry and Mapping Agency (Kadaster), Netherlands, The; ²University of Munich Germany; ³National Land Survey Finland; ⁴Aalto University Finland/National Land Survey of Finland

Land Consolidation as a multi-purpose Instrument -
 exploring Opportunities and addressing Challenges in Kosovo

Michael Becker¹, Kapllan Halimi²

¹GIZ - Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit, Kosovo; ²MAFRD - Kosovo Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Development

FAO recommendations on land consolidation legislation

Morten Hartvigsen, Maxim Gorgan, Margret Vidar, Tomas Versinskas, Kristina Mitic, Frank van Holst

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Hungary

Secure Tenure for all starts to emerge: New Experiences of Countries implementing a Fit-For-Purpose Approach to Land Administration

Stig Enemark¹, Robin McLaren²

¹Aalborg University, Denmark; ²KnowEdge, United Kingdom

Fit-for-purpose land administration strategy: an innovative approach to implement land policies in Nepal

Janak Raj Joshi¹, Uma Shankar Pandey², Raja Ram Chhatkuli³, Stig Enemark⁴, Danilo Antonio⁵, Jagat Deuja⁶, Oumar Sylla⁷

¹Ministry of Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation, Government of Nepal; ²Kathmandu University, Nepal; ³UNHABITAT, Nepal; ⁴Aalborg University, Denmark; ⁵Land and GLTN Unit, Land and Governance Branch, UN-Habitat, Kenya; ⁶Community Self Reliance Center, Kathmandu Nepal; ⁷Land and GLTN Unit, UN-Habitat, Kenya

Creating resilience to natural disasters through FFP land administration – an application in Nepal

Eva-Maria Unger¹, Raja Ram Chhatkuli², Danilo Antonio³, Christiaan Lemmen¹, Jaap Zevenbergen⁴, Rohan Bennett⁵, Paula Dijkstra¹

¹Kadaster, Netherlands, The; ²UN-Habitat Nepal; ³UN-Habitat Global Land Tool Network; ⁴University Twente, ITC Faculty of Geo-information Science and Earth Observation; ⁵Swinburne University of Technology

Fit for Purpose Land Administration: Innovations as a result of country implementations

Cornelis de Zeeuw¹, Chrit Lemmen^1,2, Eva-maria Unger¹, Paula Dijkstra¹, Mathilde Molendijk¹, Ernst-Peter Oosterbroek¹, Christelle van den Berg¹

¹Kadaster, Netherlands, The; ²Twente University - ITC

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

Catalyzing Innovation: Lessons from Uganda: Innovating land governance in predominantly customary settings.

David Betge², Zeno Pack¹, Thorsten Huber¹

¹GIZ, Uganda; ²ZOA, Uganda

Evaluation of the land inventory approach for securing tenure of lawful and bona fide occupants on private mailo land in Uganda

Thorsten Huber¹, Moses Musinguzi², Daniel Kirumira¹, Pamella Drate¹

¹Responsible Land Policy in Uganda (RELAPU), GIZ; ²Department of Geomatics and Land Management, Makerere University, Uganda

Land use Policy; implementing the Physical planning Act, in the context of Malawi land reform program implementation

Dr Janet L. Banda, Felix Tukula, Devie Chilonga

Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Malawi

The role of customary authorities in land administration: Examples from Tanzania and Ethiopia

Maija Hyle, Zerfu Hailu

NIRAS, Ethiopia

Using building footprint data to inform planning & monitor compliance with land use regulations: The case of Kigali & Musanze

Rhona Nyakulama, Gaspard Nelson Habiyaremye, Jean Claude Ntirenganya

Independent consultant, Rwanda

Establishing an interoperable land information system in Bamako for urban development

Checkine Mamadou Dieffaga

secretariat permanent de la reforme domaniale et fonciere au Mali, Mali

Strategies to ensure sustainability of Rwanda’s registry: Paperless registration of marriage/death, fee reductions, and regulatory change

Nishimwe Marie Grace

Rwanda Natural Resources Authority, Rwanda

Tenure insecurity and demand for land documents in Zambia: Evidence from a nation-wide household survey

Frank Kakungu¹, Daniel Ali², Klaus Deininger², Yuanyuan Yi²

¹Central Statisticsl Office, Zambia; ²World Bank, United States of America

Opening

Laura Tuck

World Bank, United States of America

Keynote: Urbanism and climate change – A holistic approach to climate change

Peter Calthorpe

Calthorpe Associates, United States of America

Report Launch

Xueman Wang

World Bank, United States of America

Panelist

Khoo Teng Chye

Centre for Livable Cities of the Ministry of National Development, Singapore

Panelist

Anu Ramaswami

University of Minnesota, United States of America

Panelist

Wei Xu

Development Research Center of the State Council, China, People's Republic of

Panelist

Ellen Hamilton

World Bank, United States of America

Innovation through artificial intelligence

Mureed Mustafa

Emirates Real Estate Solutions, United Arab Emirates

Beyond blockchain: technology in the land agenda

Aanchal Anand

World Bank, United States of America

Evaluating the hype: the current potential of blockchain for land

Tim Robustelli

Future of Property Rights Program at New America

Digital identity, housing data, and disaster resilience in Puerto Rico

Christopher Mellon

New America, United States of America

Improving gender equality in land tenure in the Republic Geodetic Authority of Serbia

Vasilija Zivanovic¹, Borko Draskovic¹, Rumyana Tonchovska², Sasa Rikanovic¹

¹Republic Geodetic Authority, Serbia; ²UN Food and Agriculture Organization

From laws to action: Achieving SDG indicator 5.a.2 in the Western Balkans

Naomi Kenney¹, Adela Llatja², Margreet Goelema², Rumyana Tonchovska¹, Lovro Tomasic³, Margret Vidar¹, Bianca Wengenmayer³

¹FAO, Italy; ²GIZ, Germany; ³UINL, Italy

Using open data to analyze participation in the labor market and property registration of women in Kosovo

Brikene Meha, Barlet Meha

Marin Sh.P.K., Kosovo

Women, Financial Inclusion and the Law: Why Property Rights matter for Women's access to and use of financial services

Tazeen Hasan, Nayda Almodovar

World Bank Group, United States of America

Land conservation for open space: spatial spillovers and the impact of neighbors

Haoluan Wang

University of Maryland at College Park, United States of America

Smallholder crop market participation in Tanzania: The influence of transaction cost, asset endowment and producer cooperatives

Sosina Bezu, Espen Villanger

Chr.Michelsen Institute, Norway

Land access and household implementation of agroecosystems in rural Guatemala

Maria Van Der Maaten

Iowa State University, United States of America

Land markets and transaction costs following institutional strengthening: A pre-post evaluation in Mongolia

Kate Marple-Cantrell, Heather Huntington

The Cloudburst Group, United States of America

Governance effectiveness evaluation and cost benefit analysis of one map policy delivery institutions at the sub-national level in Indonesia

Nanda Noor¹, Anita Silalahi¹, Adi Pradana¹, Aris Haryanto²

¹World Resources Institute (WRI) Indonesia; ²Geospatial Information Agency (BIG) of the Government of Republic of Indonesia

Mapping indigenous land: lesson learned from One Map Initiative in Indonesia

Dwiki Ridhwan, Carolina Astri, Dean Affandi, Fajar Muis, Lawalata Julius

World Resources Institute Indonesia, Indonesia

Towards prosperity and sustainability: The progress of social forestry implementation in Indonesia

Dimas Fauzi¹, Satrio Wicaksono¹, Adelina Chandra², Fadhilla Husnul Khatimah³

¹WRI Indonesia, Indonesia; ²Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies, Sweden; ³Coordinating Ministry of Economic Affairs, Indonesia

Customary land secretariats in Ghana as change agents in land dispute management

Gad Asorwoe Akwensivie, Dickson Agbogah

Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources, Ghana

Innovative customary land governance in Zambia: experiences, lessons learned and emerging impacts

David Katungula¹, Morgan Kumwenda², Danilo Antonio³, Moonga Chilanga³, Hellen Nyamweru-Ndungu³

¹People's Process on Housing & Poverty in Zambia, Zambia; ²Chamuka Royal Establishment; ³UN-Habitat/GLTN

Improving customary land administration in Ghana- CLSs shows the way

Coleman Clarence Bosompim Coleman Clarence Bosompim

Office of the Administrator of Stool Lands, Ghana

Making Customary Land Secretariats financially and operationally sustainable from the ground up in Ghana

Thomas Vaassen¹, Igor Popiv², Carol Roffer², Simon Ulvund¹

¹Meridia, Netherlands; ²Innola, United States of America

Supporting local government administrations through public private partnerships (PPP).

Gasant Jacobs¹, Abdelwahab Zramdini²

¹Cotecna Inspection SA, United Arab Emirates; ²Cotecna Inspection SA, Geneva

Land characteristics survey in Korea, utilizing spatial information

Jinho Choi, Nana Lee

Korea Appraisal Board, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of a satellite–based approach to maintaining a property database

Graham Deane, Robert M Owen

Airbus Defence and Space, United Kingdom

The points-based method: simplification of valuation processes for property tax purposes

Asaah Nyah Zebong, Wilson Prichard, Paul Fish

International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD), Cameroon

Valuing Natural Capital

Fiona Mannix

RICS, United Kingdom

Improving natural resource management for developing nations through the implementation of online mining cadastre solutions

Glenn Matthews

Trimble, South Africa

Open Interactive Map Platform Infrastructure to support projects on local and regional scale.

Leandro Biondo, Bernardo Trovao, Rejane Mendes, Janaina Rocha

Brazilian Forest Service, Brazil

Restoration Opportunities Atlas of India - building information bridges for people, forests and landscapes

Marie Josephine Nishanthi Duraisami, Ruchika Singh

World Resources Institute India, India

The socio-economic impact of measures to avert or reverse land degradation in agriculture: a systematic review

Mandy Malan², Ezra Berkhout¹, Jan Duchoslav³, Maarten Voors², Stefan Van Der Esch¹, Willem Verhagen¹

¹PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, Netherlands, The; ²Wageningen University, Netherlands, The; ³IFPRI International Food Policy Research Institute, United States of America

Land and resource tenure tensions driven by extractives on the commons of Karamoja – Uganda:

Herbert Kamusiime¹, Eddie Nsamba Gayiiya¹, Elisa Scalise², Christine Kajumba¹, Margaret Rugadya³

¹Associates Research Trust Uganda, Uganda; ²Resource Equity, US; ³Global Land Expert

Emerging issues in convergence of conservation and development within wildlife protected areas in Kenya

Joycelyn Kaaria

Kenya Wildlife Service, Kenya

The assault on sanctity of village lands in Tanzania by conservation initiatives

Rugemeleza Nshala

Lawyers' Environmental Action Team (LEAT), Tanzania

Protecting the nexus between communities’ land and water tenure rights: a comparative analysis of national laws recognizing the freshwater rights of indigenous peoples and local communities

Stephanie Keene¹, Jessica Troell², Chloe Ginsburg¹

¹Rights and Resources Initiative, United States of America; ²Environmental Law Institute, Malawi

Delivering land administration services at scale

Ishak Sallehuddin

Ministry of Water, Land and Natural Resources, Malaysia

Using participatory approaches and innovative technology to empower communities in securing their land

Ioana Bouvier, Stephen Brooks, Jeremy Green, Sarah Lowery, Caleb Stevens

US Agency for International Development, United States of America

Low-cost cadastre and valuation with lightweight technology

Brent Jones

Esri, United States of America

Digitization of the Land Registry within a Plural Legislative Framework: A case study of land registry innovations in Trinidad and Tobago

Amanda Fulchan-Lakhan², Kizzann Lee Sam², Miguel Angel Sanjines Mancilla¹

¹Land Administration Consultant, Bolivia, Plurinational State of; ²Ministry of the Attorney General and Legal Affairs, Trinidad & Tobago

Taking matters into their own hands: why innovation in community land data collection matters

Amy Coughenour Betancourt, Frank Pichel

Cadasta Foundation, United States of America

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

Land reform and child health in the Kyrgyz republic

Katrina Kosec¹, Olga Shemyakina²

¹International Food Policy Research Institute, United States of America; ²Georgia Tech, United States of America

Gender gaps in forest tenure reforms in Peru: The impact of expectations on the household incomes of native communities

Rosa Luz Duran

Universidad de Lima, Peru

Land joint titling and its effects on household welfare in Vietnam

Helle Buchhave, Cuong Nguyen Viet, Hoa Hoa Thi Mong Pham, Giang Tam Nuyen, Kathrine Kelm

World Bank, United States of America

Gender differences in housing ownership in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Aphichoke Kotikula, Ruth Hill, Wameq Azfar Raza

World Bank, United States of America

Leveraging geospatial infrastructure to advance tenure security at scale

Jack Dangermond

ESRI, United States of America

NEPAD support to policy analysis capacity building in Africa

Rudo Makunike

NEPAD, South Africa

Policy relevant research: Building on AERC's PhD course to strengthen analytical capacity on land governance in Africa

Innocent Matshe

African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), Kenya

Harnessing the IT revolution for African land policies

Klaus Deininger

World Bank, United States of America

Expanding the frontier for research on land in Africa

Njuguna Ndung'u

African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), Kenya

Definition matters. Metropolitan areas and agglomeration economies in a large developing country

Maarten Bosker², Jane Park¹, Mark Roberts¹

¹World Bank, United States of America; ²Erasmus University Rotterdam

Densification vs. expansion: recent findings for a global sample of cities

Shlomo Angel, Patrick Lamson-Hall

New York University, United States of America

Accurately monitoring urbanization at global scale – the world settlement footprint

Mattia Marconcini¹, Noel Gorelick², Annekatrin Metz-Marconcini¹, Thomas Esch¹

¹German Aerospace Center - DLR, Germany; ²Google Inc., USA

Characterizing and managing urban expansion for higher equity, productivity, and environmental quality in the global south

Anjali Mahendra¹, Karen Seto²

¹World Resources Institute, WRI, United States of America; ²Yale University, , United States of America

Precision geolocation at the service of least developed countries

Paul Chambon

Exagone, France

Fit for Purpose, scalable GNSS data collection

Sepp Josef Englberger

Leica Geosystems, Germany

Customized earth observation based information services

Matjaz Ivacic¹, Tatjana Veljanovski², Marcin Bilelecki¹, Liza Stancic², Andrej Beden¹, Ziga Kokalj²

¹GeoCodis Ltd., Slovenia; ²ZRC SAZU, Slovenia

Deploying titling and customary land registration systems with a blockchain element

Trent Larson, Chris Chrysostom

Medici Land Governance, United States of America

Securing women’s property rights in utilization of commons: Lessons from the Kadenge community of Yala Swamp

Hope Otieno

National Legal Aid Service, Kenya

Customary land tenure systems and gendered land rights in Ghana’s northern region: Results from phase II gender equity and land tenure focus groups

Gina Rico Mendez, Kathleen Ragsdale, Kelly Lower, Mary Read-Wahidi

Mississippi State University, United States of America

Women’s tenure security on collective lands: Implications for measurement and policy

Ruth Meinzen-Dick¹, Rachael Knight², Cheryl Doss³

¹IFPRI, United States of America; ²Namati; ³University of Oxford

Exploring the role of gender equity in customary land administration to boost production

Pamela Bella Nyamutoka Katooro¹, Simon Peter Mwesigye², Rose Mugabe¹, Alex Muhumuza¹

¹International Institute of Rural Reconstruction, Uganda; ²UN Habitat/GLTN, Uganda

Does the Real Estate Trading Management System (RTMS) affect housing price and tax base?: Evidence from Korea

Yukyung Kim

Korea Development Institute, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

Spatial distributions of job accessibility, housing rents, and poverty in Nairobi, Kenya

Shohei Nakamura, Paolo Avner

World Bank, United States of America

Monopolist land supply, housing cycle and entrepreneurship in urban China

Dan Wang

The Economist, China, People's Republic of

Growth of cities and urban influence on agricultural land prices in Malawi

Sarah Ephrida Tione, Stein Terje Holden

Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway

Can group farms outperform individual family farms? empirical insights from India

Bina Agarwal

School of Environment, Education and Development, University of Manchester, UK

The effect of land sizes and land holdings on “transitions” in and out of income poverty in Uganda.

Margaret Rugadya¹, Paul Ntegeka², Herbert Kamusiime², Christine Kajumba², Eddie Nsamba-Gayiiya²

¹Ford Foundation, United States of America; ²Associates Research Trust, Uganda

Land as the enabling asset on a value chain for rural development in Colombia's rural reform

Javier Perez-Burgos

Ministerio de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural, Colombia

Land tenure regularisation for sustainable urban and agriculture development in Rwanda

Thierry Ngoga

AGRA, Kenya

Experiments of urban land supply and development: India

Aparna Soni, Triveni Prasad Nanda

RICS School of Built Environment, India

Citizen-centric digital land and asset management in the greenfield city development: case study of Amaravati

Sreedhar Cherukury, Sidharth Ganesh, Sastry Siva Rama Krishna Jyosyula

Andhra Pradesh Capital Region Development Authority, India

Egovernance initiatives of slum rehabilitation authority, Mumbai

Shri Deepak Kapoor

Government of Maharashtra, India

Imagine and design the legal framework for the cities of the future: the example of Mauritian ‘smart cities’

Florian Lebourdais¹, Marie-Florence Zampiero-Bouquemont²

¹Ordre des Géomètres-experts, France; ²Conseil Supérieur du Notariat, France

Open Government - Building trust and strengthening the delivery of valuation services

Ruud M. Kathmann¹, Terence Fahey², Ben P.P. Bervoets¹, Marco Kuijper¹

¹Council for Real Estate Assessment, The Netherlands; ²Valuation Office, Ireland

Customer relations and communication in land administration

David Laurence Magor

Institute of Revenues Rating and Valuation, United Kingdom

Property Taxation in India: Issues impacting revenue performance and suggestions for reform

Rajul Awasthi

World Bank, United States of America

Best-bet options for ensuring tropical forest conservation and livelihoods development: Evidence from the community forest concessions in Petén, Guatemala

Dietmar Stoian^1,2, Aldo Rodas³, Iliana Monterroso⁴

¹Bioversity International, France; ²World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF), France; ³Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, Guatemala; ⁴Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)

Forest restoration and afforestation in India

Laura Valencia², Kundan Kumar¹

¹Rights and Resources Initiative, United States of America; ²University of Toronto, Canada

Integrating forest recovery and low-carbon agriculture in priority watersheds of Brazilian savannah: The FIP-Landscape Project

Lidiane Moretto¹, Janaína Rocha¹, Tatiana Calçada¹, Taiguara Alencar³, Rejane Mendes¹, Leandro Biondo¹, Sidney Medeiros², Lilianna Mendes¹, Polyanna Paro³, Bernadete Lange⁴, Daniela Ziller⁴, Carlos Eduardo Sturm¹, Carlos Pires³, Bernardo Trovão¹, Rebecca Fiore³, Jaine Cubas Davet¹, Magna Cunha dos Santos³, Anselm Duchrow³

¹Brazilian Forest Service (SFB), Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply (MAPA), Brazil; ²Secretariat for Innovation, Rural Development and Irrigation, Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply (MAPA), Brazil; ³GIZ, Brazil; ⁴World Bank, Brazil

Tenure security and forest landscape restoration: Results from exploratory research in Boeny, Madagascar

Rebecca McLain¹, Patrick Ranjatson², Steven Lawry¹, Jean Mananga³, Tolotra Razafimbelo², Renaud Randrianasolo²

¹Center for International Forestry Research, United States of America; ²Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Agronomiques (ESSA); Université d'Antananarivo – Madagascar; ³Independent consultant

Rural land use planning, the integration of shared resources mapping for improved communal tenure security: experiences from Zambia

Christopher Mulenga¹, Adam Ngoma², Jason Sakala²

¹University of Lusaka, Zambia; ²Chipata District Land Alliance, Zambia

Context, power, equity and effectiveness in territorial planning multi-stakeholder commissions: a comparative analysis of two very different Brazilian States

Jazmin Gonzales Tovar¹, Grenville Barnes², Anne Larson³

¹University of Florida (UF), United States of America; ²University of Florida (UF), United States of America; ³Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Peru

Clarification, recognition and formalization of land rights in a landscape restoration project in Burundi

Pascal Thinon¹, Paola Agostini², Philippe Eric Dardel²

¹Independant consultant, France; ²World Bank

Participatory Community Land Use Planning (CLUP ) as a means of conflict prevention and poverty alleviation in rural areas through pilot experiments in the east of Democratic Republic of Congo: provinces of North Kivu, South Kivu and Tituri

Malam Kandine Adam

UN-HABITAT, Congo, Republic of the

Land administration data integration – modern concept

Igor Popiv, Carol Roffer, Maksym Kalyta, Sergiy Lizenko

Innola Solutions, Inc., United States of America

Land Administration Models - A central register and land information system containing as much information as possible about a property

Victoria Abbott, Joy Bailey

HM Land Registry, United Kingdom

An applicative approach for cadastral processes implementation in multi-dimensional land management systems

Ruba Jaljolie, Yerach Doytsher, Sagi Dalyot

Mapping and Geo-Information Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

The impact of the agricultural land management information system on the work of local self-government units and directorate for agricultural land

Katja Grbic

GIZ- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit, 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

Predicting deprivations in housing and basic services from space in slums of Dhaka

Amit Patel¹, Christian Borja-Vega², Luisa Mimmi³, Tomas Soukup⁴, Jan Kolomaznik⁴, Marcia Mundt¹, Hyunjung Lee¹, Tanushree Bhan¹

¹University of Massachusetts Boston, United States of America; ²World Bank, United States of America; ³Inter American Development Bank, United States of America; ⁴GiSAT, Czech Republic

International collaboration: capturing the impact of emerging trends

Bilan Stribling

Columbia University, United States of America

The effects of agricultural income on Internally Displaced Persons: Evidence from Colombia

Paola Palacios, Miguel Angel Perez-Uribe

Universidad Icesi, Colombia

The consequences of increasing block tariffs, magnitude and distribution of electricity and water subsidies for households in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Helena Cardenas, Dale Whittington

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States of America

Introductory remarks

Godfrey Bahiigwa

African Union Commission, Ethiopia

Setting the scene

Michael Roth

Consultant, United States of America

Discussant

Joan Kagwanja

UNECA, Ethiopia

Discussant

David Loue

Agence Foncière Rurale, AFOR, Côte d'Ivoire

Discussant

Danielle Haingonavalona

Ministry in charge of Land Affairs, Madagascar

Discussant

Tatjana Cenova-Mitrevska

Agency for Real Estate Cadastre, Macedonia

Discussant

Emmanuel Nkurunziza

Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD), Kenya

Closing remarks

Jorge Munoz

World Bank, United States of America

Closing remarks

Fritz Jung

Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany

Interoperability model for land registries (IMOLA) project in the European Union

Mihai Taus

Romanian Land Registry Association, Romania

The evolution of the Chilean land registry system: from the 19th century to the implementation of new technologies

Jose Luis Alberto Maldonado Croquevielle, Claudia Bahamondes Oyarzún

Conservador de Bienes Raíces de Santiago, Chile

Registry of True Owners according to the European Directives to fight money laundering

Alfonso Candau

IPRA-CINDER, Spain

The interconnection and interoperability between Business Registries in Europe

Maria Jose Magalhaes

Registrars of Portugal, Portugal

The interconnection between Land Registries in a Federal State such as Mexico

Maria Elena Garcia Flores

CINDER, Mexico

Transformative initiatives concerning the delivery of land title registration services in British Columbia

Carlos MacDonald

Director of Land Titles, British Columbia, Canada

Policy person’s guide to navigating past the map

Ronald Roth

Hexagon Geosystems, United States of America

The future role of official geospatial reference data in a fully digital environment

Peter Creuzer, Marcel Ziems

State Agency for Geoinformation and State Survey Lower Saxony (LGLN), Germany

Legal and policy frameworks for geospatial information management

Kevin Pomfret

Centre for Spatial Law and Policy, United States of America

Geospatial Data points the way to integrating government for sustainable development

John David Kedar, Kimberley Worthy, James Darvill

Ordnance Survey, United Kingdom

Land and womanhood- ethnography on propertied women in Bengal

Amrita Mondal

Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, Germany

"Innovations to protect women’s customary land rights: Practical experiences from Sierra Leone."

Samuel Mabikke¹, Rexford Ahene², MariaPaola Rizzo³, Francesca Romano³

¹Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Sierra Leone; ²Lafayette University, USA; ³Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Italy

The farmer and her husband: legal innovations for women in contract farming

Sarah Brewin, Carin Smaller, Francine Picard, Sophia Murphy

IISD, Switzerland

How do mass transit investments affect land values? evidence from MRT-3

Abdul Abiad, Ann Jillian Adona, Kathleen Farrin

Asian Development Bank, Philippines

Ecological footprint of transportation infrastructure

Teevrat Garg¹, Sam Asher², Paul Novosad³

¹University of California, San Diego, United States of America; ²World Bank; ³Dartmouth College

How large are the contributions of cities to the development of rural communities?

Juan Daniel Soto Diaz^1,2, Milena Vargas^4,2, Julio Berdegue³

¹London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom; ²Latin American Center for Rural Development (RIMISP); ³Food and Agricutural Organization of the United Nations (FAO); ⁴The National Statistics Institute of Chile (INE)

From municipal investments to functional subregions: new territorial planning units in Colombia

Natalie Gomez Arteaga

DNP, Colombia

Land policy implementation in Kenya: achievements, challenges and lessons ten years later

Ibrahim Mwathane

Land Development and Governance Institute (LDGI), Kenya

Smallholder settlement schemes in Kenya:
 A retrospective and prospective analysis of Trans-Nzoia county

Fibian Lukalo, David Kipchoge

National Land Commission, Kenya

By the communities for the communities: A holistic approach to community-based natural resource governance:

Husna Mbarak

UNFAO, Kenya

The political economy of Kenya land policy review

Odenda Lumumba

KENYA LAND ALLIANCE, Kenya

Anatomy of Density

Shlomo Angel, Patrick Lamson-Hall

New York University, United States of America

Measuring urban economic density

Sebastian Kriticos

The London School of Economics, United Kingdom

Master scheme for the simplification and digital transformation of urban land management

Aurélie Milledrogues¹, Nassirou Mbow², Benoit Kiene¹, Loic Daniel¹

¹IGN FI, France; ²Ministry of Construction, Housing and Urban Planning (MCLAU), Ivory Coast

The National Urban Policy as a Framework for managing Urban expansion and land use change in Malawi

Dr Janet L. Banda, Mercy Betty Dube, Devie Chilonga

Mnistry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Malawi

The role of transferrable development rights in emerging economies

Richard Grover¹, Anna Corsi², Ahmet Kindap³

¹Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom; ²World Bank, Washington DC, USA; ³World Bank, Ankara, Turkey

Is there a role of Land Value Capture Instruments for financing infrastructure investments in a messy urban growth scenario?

Cynthia Goytia

Harvard University and Torcuato Di Tella University, Argentine Republic

Unlocking the potential of urban land in Kenya

Abdu Muwonge¹, Peter Mwangi²

¹World Bank, Kenya; ²Walker Kontos Advocates, Kenya

Institutional arrangements as a catalyzing instrument for land value capture processes in public transportation projects

Maria Juliana Rojas Cortes

JFP & Asociados, Colombia

The untold story of Taiwan's land-based financing program - land readjustment or land grabbing?

Shih-Jung Hsu¹, Grace Li-Min Liao²

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

Development of an informal land use register for South Africa

Rajesh Nooka, Willy Govender, Mfanafuthi Gama

Data World (Pty) Ltd, South Africa

Rural Environmental Registry in the priority municipalities for Cerrado deforestation combating, in Brazil

Carlos Henrique Pires Luiz¹, Rejane Marques Mendes², Leandro Meneguelli Biondo², Lilianna Mendes Latini Gomes², Janaina de Almeida Rocha², Bernardo de Araujo Moraes Trovão², Carlos Eduardo Portella Sturm², Pedro de Almeida Salles², Gustavo Henrique de Oliveira², Magna Cunha dos Santos³

¹The World Bank, Brazil; ²Brazilian Forest Service / Ministry of the Environment, Brazil; ³German Agency for International Cooperation - GIZ

Environment and land use trends in the Ethiopian lowlands

Daniel Monchuk

The World Bank, United States of America

Innovative electronic pasture committee software

Elvira Maratova, Abdimalik Egemberdiev

KYRGYZ JAYITY National pasture users' association, Kyrgyzstan

Pastoral rights to mobility in Senegal: unpacking paradoxes and reimagining sustainable management

Erin Kitchell

University of Wisconsin-Madison, Unites States of America

Some issues of reducing pasture degradation in Mongolia

Gerlee Shuuduv, Batbileg Bayaraa

Mongolian University of Life Sciences, Mongolia

The importance of public private partnership in cadastre: Turkish experience

Orhan Ercan¹, Mert Yasin Oz²

¹FIG, Turkey; ²Tapu ve Kadastro Genel Müdürlüğü, Turkey

A review of public-private partnerships in land administration

Mohsen Kalantari¹, Daniel Paez¹, Aanchal Anand², Tony Burns³, Kate Rickersey³

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

PPP in land administration - why now and what are the risks and benefits?

Fredrik Zetterquist, Dave Stow

Ordnance Survey, UK

Exploring PPP opportunities for improved Land Administration Reforms, emerging lessons from the Ghanaian Case

Eric Yeboah

Office of the President, Ghana

From client satisfaction to happiness: the front-office and back-office innovative concession models for fostering land registration in Dubai

Daniel Paez

Universidad de los Andes, Colombia

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

Identifying best practices for benefit sharing at the jurisdictional scale in relation to emission reduction programs

Lauren Cooper¹, Dietmar Stoian², Emily Huff¹, Kezia Salosso³

¹Michigan State University, United States of America; ²Bioversity International / World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), France; ³University of Papua, Indonesia

How Does Scarcity Affect Extraction of Resources? A study about land use as a common-pool resource dilemma using survey and field-experimental data collected in northern Namibia

Nils Christian Hoenow, Michael Kirk

University of Marburg, Germany

Impact of land certification on cash crop expansion in Southwest China

Haowen Zhuang, Shaoze Jin, Hermann Waibel

Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany

Forest carbon supply in Nepal: Evidence from a choice experiment

Randall Bluffstone¹, Eswaran Somanathan², Sahan Dissanayake¹, Harisharan Luintel³, Naya Paudel⁴

¹Portland State University, United States of America; ²Indian Statistical Institute, India; ³Smart Start Evaluation and Research, United States of America; ⁴Forest Action, Nepal