Conference Agenda

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

1: Federal University of Acre, Brazil; 2: University of Campinas; 3: State 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

1: Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria; 2: Lead 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

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

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

1: PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, Netherlands, The; 2: Wageningen University, Netherlands, The; 3: IFPRI International Food Policy Research Institute, 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

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

Forest restoration and afforestation in India

Laura Valencia², Kundan Kumar¹

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

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

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

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

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

Environment and land use trends in the Ethiopian lowlands

Daniel Monchuk

The World Bank, United States of America

Practical guide for the creation and management of conservation space

Douglas Steinberg¹, Bala W. Sanou², Fako Bruno Ouattara², Brook Johnson², Amber Lee James¹, Caroline Plançon-Rodriguez³

1: National Cooperative Business Association CLUSA International, United States of America; 2: Independent Consultant, Burkina Faso; 3: World Bank, United States of America

Development of a practical guide to support local actors in the development and management of conservation areas in the context of REDD+

Amber Lee James, Bala Wenceslas Sanou, Fako Bruno Ouattara

NCBA CLUSA International, United States of America

Rethinking land development and offset mechanisms in cambodia

Alexander Marx, Ratana Pen

Heinrich Boell Foundation, Cambodia

Environmental justice in the REDD+ frontier: indigenous experiences from the scholarly literature and proposals for a way forward

Juan Pablo Sarmiento Barletti, Anne Larson

Center for International Forestry Research, Peru

How the climate protection strengthens the indigenous territories in the Amazon: The REDD Early Movers Program (REM) in Mato Grosso - Brazil

Taiguara Alencar¹, Renata Oliveira Costa¹, Eliane Lima², Deroni Mendes³

1: GIZ, Brazil; 2: FEPOIMT, Brazil; 3: ICV, Brazil

Multi-stakeholder forums as innovation for natural resource management? Results from a Realist Synthesis Review of the scholarly literature

Anne Larson¹, Juan Pablo Sarmiento Barletti¹, Christopher Hewlitt², Deborah Delgado³

1: CIFOR, Peru; 2: University of Maryland, College Park, United States of America; 3: PUCP, Peru

Examining relationships in forest governance quality: Insights from forest frontier communities in Zambia´s Miombo ecoregion

Hellen Nansikombi¹, Richard Fischer¹, Gillian Kabwe², Sven Günter¹

1: Thünen Institute of International Forestry and Forest Economics, Hamburg, Germany; 2: Copperbelt University, Kitwe, Zambia

Land Tenure Regularization in the Brazilian Amazon: perspectives on identifying social, economic and environmental variables for assessing its impacts

Gabriela C P Savian¹, Marcelo C C Stabile¹, Paulo R S Moutinho¹, Elisa de Siqueira², Gabriela Russo³, João Paulo Ribeiro¹, Vivian Ribeiro¹, Daniel S Silva¹, Sylvia Mitraud¹, Jarlene Gomes¹, Alcilene Cardoso¹, Jorge Espinoza⁴, Rogerio Cabral⁴, Díni L Silveira², Robson Disarz⁵, João Paulo Mastrangelo⁶, Bastiaan Reydon⁶, Gabriel P Siqueira⁶

1: Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM); 2: Consulting for Sustainable Development GITEC-IGIP GmbH; 3: Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Amsterdam; 4: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH; 5: National Colonization and Agrarian Reform Institute (INCRA); 6: Universidade de Campinas (Unicamp)

Local perception of indigenous titling programs in the Peruvian Amazon

Peter Cronkleton, Anne Larson

Center for International Forestry Research, Peru

Governance structures of native forests' management policy in North Argentina: the role of policy forums in mediating between conservation and production

Carla Inguaggiato¹, Maurice Tschopp¹, Graziano Michele Ceddia¹, Dimitris Christodopolous^2,3

1: University of Bern, Switzerland; 2: Modul University, Austria; 3: Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh

Gender gaps and actions being taken to address them in forest landscapes

Patricia Kristjanson, Tamara Bah, Anne Kuriakose, Meerim Shakirova, Gerardo Segura, Katharina Siegmann, Margaux Granat

World Bank, United States of America

Closing the gender gap in natural resource management programs in Mexico

Katharina Siegmann¹, Zeina Afif¹, Graciela Reyes-Retana³, Margarita Gomez Garcia²

1: World Bank; 2: CIDE; 3: Cornell University

Innovation of locally-led adaptive programming in Natural Resource Governance Change in Myanmar

Aung Kyaw Thein, Rick Gregory

Pyoe Pin Institute, Myanmar

“A Land Market is the strategy for access to land for development”. Which land market? For whose benefit? An analysis of the Ugandan case

Judy Adoko, Liz Neate

Land and Equity Movement in Uganda - LEMU, Uganda

Land governance and urban development find a challenges in the perspective of social safeguards

Md Mayen Uddin Tazim

Asian Development Bank (ADB), Bangladesh, People's Republic of

Ghana: Collateralizing land use rights on customary land. Lessons and challenges for growing the mortgage market

Ian Rose¹, Emmanuel Noah²

1: DAI, United States of America; 2: BenBen, Ghana

Increasing access to land for housing for Irula tribal families: Lessons from implementing the Solid Ground Campaign in India

Rebecca Ochong¹, Rajan Samuel², Suseela Anand²

1: Habitat for Humanity International, Philippines; 2: Habitat for Humanity, India

Giving the land back to people : solving colonial cases of land-grabbing in Madagascar

Ketakandriana Rafitoson

Transparency International - Initiative Madagascar, Madagascar

Examining how land laws have implemented GLTN tools

Nicholas Tagliarino

UN Habitat, The Netherlands

Sustaining sustainable development: Leveraging human rights structures to implement land-related SDGs

Bethany Roberts

Landesa, United States of America

Equal partnership in the capacity building project Eduland2: conceptual design, implementation, successes, challenges & lessons learnt

Reinfried Mansberger¹, Sayeh Kassaw Agegnehu², Gerhard Navratil³, Gebeyehu Belay Shibeshi⁴

1: University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Austria; 2: Debre Markos University, Ethiopia; 3: Technische Universitaet Wien, Austria; 4: Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia

Encouraging women’s land rights and promoting female land professionals: A twin track approach to enhancing land governance

Zerfu Hailu Gebrewold, Gladys Savolainen, Tommi Tenno

NIRAS/Ethiopia, Ethiopia

The land research capacity of Africa: new research centre concept for catalysing improved land governance

Uchendu Eugene Chigbu¹, Gaynor Paradza², Simon Peter Mwesigye³

1: Technical University of Munich, Germany; 2: Independent Consultant, South Africa; 3: UN-Habitat / GLTN, Uganda

The ADLAND model: Transformative experiences and lessons in human capital development in land governance in Africa

Pamela Duran Diaz

Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany

Scaling emerging geospatial technologies for land administration: understanding institutional innovation dynamics through a Technological Innovation System perspective

Serene Ho^1,2, Tarek Zein³, Placide Nkerabigwi⁴, Valérie Pattyn^1,5, Joep Crompvoets¹

1: KU Leuven, Belgium; 2: RMIT University, Australia; 3: Hansa Luftbild AG, Germany; 4: INES Ruhengeri, Rwanda; 5: Leiden University, The Netherlands

Using a multi-lateral organisation to catalyse institutional innovation at global scale: Evidence from the work of the Global Land Tool Network partners

Clarissa Augustinus

Independent consultant, Ireland

An innovative experience of capacity building for land in Central Africa

Paul Tchawa

University of Yaoundé 1, Cameroon

Importance of capacity building and training in the World Bank assisted projects - Case study of Serbia

Olivera Vasovic, Borko Draskovic, Dragan Pavlovic, Nada Teodosijevic

Republic Geodetic Authority, Serbia

Innovative grassroots women led tools for gender responsive land governance

Mino Harivelo Ramaroson¹, Frances Birungi², Birte Scholz¹, Gaynor Paradza¹

1: HUAIROU COMMISSION, United States of America; 2: UCOBAC, Uganda

Starting with women: tools for empowerment

Amanda Richardson¹, Amy Coughenour², Anne Girardin³

1: Resource Equity, United States of America; 2: Cadasta, United States of America; 3: Cadasta, France