Conference Agenda

Session Overview
Location: MC 5-100

Date: Tuesday, 26/Mar/2019
8:30am - 10:00am	01-05: Evaluating impacts of land tenure interventions Session Chair: Hosaena Ghebru, International Food Policy Research Institute, United States of America
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	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
10:30am - 12:00pm	02-05: Evaluating impacts of land tenure interventions Session Chair: Malcolm Childress, Global Land Alliance, United States of America
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	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
2:00pm - 3:30pm	03-05: Land price determinants Session Chair: Dieter von Fintel, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
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	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
3:45pm - 5:15pm	04-05: Assessing impact of Infrastructure investments Session Chair: Innocent Matshe, African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), Kenya
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	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

Date: Wednesday, 27/Mar/2019
8:30am - 10:00am	05-05: Impact of informal tenure upgrading Session Chair: Remi Jedwab, George Washington University, United States of America
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	High delinquency rates in Brazil’s Minha Casa Minha Vida housing program: Possible causes and necessary reforms Arthur Acolin¹, Marja Hoek-Smit², Claudia Magalhães Eloy³ ¹University of Washington, United States of America; ²University of Pennsylvania, United States of America; ³Independent, Brazil Backyarding: theory and evidence for South Africa Jan Brueckner¹, Claus Rabe², Harris Selod³ ¹University of California, Irvine, United States of America; ²Independent consultant, South Africa; ³World Bank, United States of America Impact Evaluations of Informal Settlements Upgrading Interventions: Evidence assessment and new topics for research. Cynthia Goytia¹, Guadalupe Dorna² ¹Harvard University and Torcuato Di Tella University, Argentina; ²Torcuato Di Tella University, Argentina Measuring housing deprivations in India: an alternative approach to slum enumeration Amit Patel¹, Phoram Shah² ¹University of Massachusetts Boston, United States of America; ²The World Bank Group, United States of America
10:30am - 12:00pm	06-05: Land markets at the rural-urban fringe Session Chair: Songqing Jin, Michigan State Univ./Zhejiang Univ., China, People's Republic of
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	Land transactions in the rural-urban fringes of Dar es Salaam and Nairobi: driving forces, stakeholders and challenges for land governance Sina Schlimmer Sciences Po Bordeaux, France Land market determinants and outcomes in Rwanda: an econometric analysis Charles Mulindabigwi Ruhara¹, Richard Baldwin², Sam Biraro³, Bernis Byamukama⁴ ¹University of Rwanda, Rwanda; ²iLand Consulting; ³RLMUA; ⁴DFID How horizontal integration affects transaction costs of rural collective construction land market? An empirical analysis in Nanhai District, Guangdong Province, China Anlu Zhang, Xiangxiang Xie, Peng Bin Huazhong Agricultural University, China, People's Republic of
2:00pm - 3:30pm	07-05: Emerging technologies, data ownership & privacy Session Chair: Josephus van Erp, Maastricht University, Netherlands, The WEBEX
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	The importance and nature of (land administration) data when using emerging technologies Jacob Vos Dutch Cadastre, Land Registry and Mapping Agency (Kadaster), Netherlands, The Reflections on the possible privatization of Land Registries by making use of emerging technologies Mihai Taus Romanian Land Registry Association, Romania Embracing emerging technologies; preconditions, threshold, possibilities and guarantees Lionel Galliez International Union of Notaries (UINL), France East-African perspectives and experiences, using modern technology while building up Land Administration systems in the region. Emmanuel Nkurunziza Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD), Kenya A brief introduction about the experiences in Brazil, Peru and other countries in South America Victor Endo Global Land Alliance, Peru The experience in Australia with privatising land registries Sharon Christensen Queensland University of Technology, Australia
3:45pm - 5:15pm	08-05: Urban land research, land assembly and land markets in China Session Chair: Fang Xia, University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, China, People's Republic of
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	Land-constrain-induced poverty and land-capitalization-supported poverty alleviation strategy in China: A case study of Shaanxi Province Jinfeng Du Xi'an Jiaotong University, United States of America Impact of land certification on land and labor allocation in China Xuwen Gao¹, Longbao Wei¹, Xinjie Shi^1,2, Shile Fang³ ¹Zhejiang University, China, People's Republic of; ²Australia National University, Australia; ³Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Science, China, People's Republic of Reduction of industrial land beyond Urban Development Boundary in Shanghai Zhengfeng Zhang Renmin University of China, China, People's Republic of China

Date: Thursday, 28/Mar/2019
8:30am - 10:00am	09-05: SDGs on land: Methodology and reporting Session Chair: Sydney Gourlay, World Bank, United States of America VC/ webex
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	Reporting on SDG indicator 1.4.2 for high income countries: the case of the U.S. Benjamin Linkow¹, Caleb Stevens³, Jennifer Lisher² ¹Landesa, United States of America; ²Millennium Challenge Corporation, United States of America; ³USAID, United States of America Considering the multidimensional nature of tenure security in land policies Anni Valkonen University of East Anglia, UK Measuring perceived tenure insecurity: issues, challenges, and recommendations Benjamin Linkow Landesa, United States of America Discussant (Webex) Leman Yonca Gurbuzer Food and Agriculture Organization, Italy
10:30am - 12:00pm	10-05: The role of land in structural transformation Session Chair: Jonathan Conning, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY, United States of America
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	Poverty, Inequality, and Agriculture in the EU Joao Pedro Azevedo, Rogier J. E. Van Den Brink, Paul Corral, Montserrat Ávila, Hongxi Zhao, Mohammad-Hadi Mostafavi The World Bank, United States of America Small farms, large farms and international productivity differences Yaoqi Lin¹, Jonathan Conning^1,2 ¹The Graduate Center, City University of New York, United States of America; ²Hunter College, City University of New York, United States of America The misallocation of land and other factors of production in India Ejaz Ghani, Gilles Duranton World Bank, United States of America At what price? Price supports, agricultural productivity, and misallocation Nandita Krishnaswamy University of Southern California, United States of America
2:00pm - 3:30pm	11-05: Land and water governance Session Chair: Marie-Laure Lajaunie, World Bank, United States of America
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	Linking irrigated land and water scarcity: a global view Susanne Maria Scheierling, David Olivier Treguer World Bank, United States of America Land and water: the rights divergence Stephen Hodgson SPRL KH & Associates, Belgium Intensification of irrigated agriculture: the case of the Boudnib plain in Morocco Omar Aloui², Anne Chohin-Kuper¹, Mathilde Crosnier³, Jeanne Chiche⁴ ¹Independent consultant, Morocco; ²Agroconcept, Romania; ³INRA SAD, ISARA Lyon, France; ⁴IAV Hassan II, Morocco Irrigation Modernization in Spain: what influences the Effects on Water? Elena Lopez-Gunn¹, Manuel Bea¹, Rosa Huertas², Victor del Barrio³, Javier Fernandez Pereira³ ¹ICATALIST, Spain; ²Valladolid City Council, Spain; ³Duero River basin agency, Spain