Conference Agenda

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

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

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

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

Peri-urban land governance: understanding conflicting and competing interests for peri-urban land in Ethiopia

Achamyeleh Gashu Adam

Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia

The policy incompatibility nexus between urban expansion, land use and land value in Nepal: the case of Pokhara metropolitan city

Indra Prasad Tiwari

Pokhara University, Nepal

Urban expansion and the emergence of informal land markets in Namibia's communal areas

Romie Nghitevelekwa

University of Namibia, Namibia

Who owns the land? Legal pluralism and conflicts over land rights in Ghana

Anatoli Ignatov

Appalachian State University, United States of America

Social and human rights impact assessment for development project within Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Isaac Daniels

Sahmakum Teang Tnaut, Cambodia

The right of use on non-awarding state lands, an innovative tool for legal certainty regarding land tenure.

Elkin Caropresse, Margarita Varon

COLOMBIA RURAL SAS, Colombia

Stimulus for land grabbing and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

Brenda Brito¹, Paulo Barreto¹, Amintas Brandão Jr^1,2, Sara Baima¹, Pedro Henrique Gomes¹

¹Imazon, Brazil; ²University of Wisconsin, United States of America

Allocation of public land and the terra legal regularization program in the Brazilian Amazon

Bastiaan Reydon¹, Gabriel Pansani¹, Otavio Moreira², Marcus Nascimento², Jorge Espinoza³, Rogerio Cabral⁴, Elisa de Siqueira⁵

¹Universidade Estadual de Campinas; ²SERFAL, Brazil; ³GIZ, Brazil; ⁴Nexucs; ⁵GITEC-IGIP GmbH

La privatisation des terres collectives au Maroc: une voie de dynamisation du marché foncier agricole

Mohamed Hicham Ferrassi

MCA-Morocco, Morocco

Institutional reform of the public administration system and its effect on land administration (case study: Republic of Moldova)

Olga Buzu

Agency for Land Relations and Cadastre of the Republic of Moldova, Moldova

An examination of spatial planning impact on development of the agricultural land in Kosovo

Dukagjin Bakija², Rudina Qerimi², Arben Citaku¹, Luan Nushi¹

¹Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning, Republic of Kosovo; ²Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Kosovo

Legal empowerment in commercial agriculture: can small-scale producers secure their fair share?

Lorenzo Cotula, Emily Polack, Thierry Berger, Brendan Schwartz

IIED, United Kingdom

Innovative financing solutions for community support in the context of land investments

Sam Szoke-Burke, Kaitlin Cordes

Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, United States of America

Rural development, dynamic political economy and social license: a case study in renewable energy project governance missteps and lessons learned.

Andrew Buchman, Dean Slocum, Atma Khalsa

Acorn International, LLC, United States of America

Assessing community capacity to respond to external threats to land tenure

Rachael Knight

Namati, United States of America

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nyamwoga Bayengeha Floribert

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

From registration to sustainability: developments in Rwanda

Nishimwe Marie Grace, Biraro Sam

Rwanda Land Management and Use Authority, Rwanda

EDOGIS comes online, an evaluation

Stephen Calder

GIS/Transport, United States of America

Piloting urban land systematic adjudication and registration in Ethiopia:

Solomon Mammo¹, Alexius Santoni²

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

The innovative national rural land administration information system of Ethiopia

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

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

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

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

IGN FI, Uganda

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

William Kambugu, John Richard Oput

Ministry of Lands,Housing and Urban Development, Uganda

National Land Observatories: a tool for transparency, accountability, and informed decision making over land for all

Ward Anseeuw¹, Grislain Quentin², Ibrahima Ka³, Jeremy Buorgoin⁴, Perrine Burnod⁵

¹CIRAD / International Land Coalition, Italy; ²CIRAD / International Land Coalition, Senegal; ³IPAR, Senegal; ⁴CIRAD / ISRA-BAME, Madagascar; ⁵CIRAD / Observatoire foncier Madagascar

Enabling voices, demanding rights: A guide to gender-sensitive community engagement in large-scale land-based investment in agriculture

Eileen Wakesho Mwagae¹, Francine Picard Mukazi², Charles Opiyo¹

¹Oxfam International; ²International Institute for Sustainable Development, IISD, Switzerland

The East African community model contract for farmland investments: ensuring responsible investment in land in east africa.

Christopher Bazivamo¹, Jean Baptiste Havugimana¹, Mohamed Coulibaly²

¹East African Community - EAC; ²International Institute for Sustainable Development - IISD, Mali