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8:30am - 10:00am | 01-12: Planning land use to attract investment Session Chair: Kaitlin Cordes, Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, United States of America | |||||||
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Challenges of making land available for large-scale investment in commercial agriculture in Tanzania: the case of Missenyi district 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 1Liberia Land Authority; 2IDH, The Sustainable Trade Initiative
Building harmonized private and state land data and information systems in Ethiopia 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 1The PLAN: Public Legal Aid Network, Myanmar; 2Emerald Sea Group; 3River Mekong Group
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10:30am - 12:00pm | 02-12: Can large investment catalyze agricultural transformation? Session Chair: Thomas Jayne, Michigan State University, United States of America | |||||||
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The Resource Impact Dashboard (RID) An innovative global framework to measure the local impact of landed resources exploitation by industries 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? German Development Institute (DIE), Germany
A framework for the development of responsible agropoles in Africa International Institute for Sustainable Development, Mali
Changing farm structure and rural transformation in Africa Michigan State University, United States of America
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2:00pm - 3:30pm | 03-12: Can large farms attract local growth? Session Chair: Derick Bowen, Millennium Challenge Corporation, United States of America | |||||||
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How and why large-scale agricultural investments induce diverse trajectories of regional development in Kenya, Madagascar and Mozambique 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 1Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium; 2F.R.S.- FNRS, Brussels, Belgium
Large-scale land aggregation for transforming and scaling up African agriculture African Development Bank, Côte d'Ivoire
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3:45pm - 5:15pm | 04-12: Gender impacts of large-scale investment Session Chair: Kerstin Nolte, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany | |||||||
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Winners or losers: a gender analysis of the economic and social impact of corporate large-scale land acquisition on rural women in Cameroon 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 1Mokoro Ltd, United Kingdom; 2People Centered Conservation (PCC), Mongolia
Strengthening women's voices in land governance in the context of commercial pressures on land 1IIED, United Kingdom; 2IED Afrique, Senegal
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8:30am - 10:00am | 05-12: Protecting land rights in the course of land acquisition Session Chair: Joan Kagwanja, UNECA, Ethiopia | |||||||
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Land rights protection in the pulp and paper production system University of São Paulo, Brazil
Land acquisition in Malaysia: Policy context and praxis for oil and gas hub project in Eastern Johor. 1Johor State Secretary, Malaysia; 2Johor State Secretary Incorporation, Malaysia; 3Johor Land and Mines Department, Malaysia; 4Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
LSLA in Mozambique: impact on rural and urban communities Centro Terra Viva, Mozambique
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10:30am - 12:00pm | 06-12: Dealing with the impacts of failed land acquisition Session Chair: Jann Lay, GIGA - Germany, Germany | |||||||
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Doomed to fail? Why some land-based investment projects fail and others succeed Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
Why we need a human right to land – empirical evidence from large-scale land investment deals in Sierra Leone and the Philippines University of Tuebingen, Germany
When good innovations go bad Stratigos Consulting, United Arab Emirates
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2:00pm - 3:30pm | 07-12: Enforcing adherence to standards for large land-based investment Session Chair: Chris Jochnick, Landesa, United States of America | |||||||
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Emerging Practice from the Field: Private sector action on land rights in the upstream 1Rights and Resources Initiative, United States of America; 2International Finance Corporation
Etranger et accès a la terre en afrique de l'ouest Initiative Prospective Agricole et Rurale, Senegal
Due diligence in land acquisition - Lawyers and their responsibilities 1FAO, Italy; 2Matrix Chambers, UK
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3:45pm - 5:15pm | 08-12: Improving decision-making on common lands Session Chair: Steven Lawry, Center for International Forestry Research, United States of America | |||||||
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Responding to the global agenda: valuation of undocumented lands to promote responsible land governance and human rights recognition 1UN-Habitat/GLTN, Kenya; 2Independent Consultant, Kenya
Securing forest tenure for rural development: an integrated assessment tool 1The Equator Group, United States of America; 2World Bank, United States of America; 3Land Alliance, United States of America; 4Independent, United States of America
Whose land is it anyway? Exploring new ways for consensus building in policy making University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Land rights progress a participatory land governance tool for Cameroon 1Centre pour l'Environment et Development, Cameroon; 2International Institute for Environment and Development, Cameroon; 3Network to Fight Against Hunger
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8:30am - 10:00am | 09-12: How can large investors be held accountable? Session Chair: Samuel Kimeu, Transparency International Kenya, Kenya | ||||||
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Open EIA reporting and contracting for sustainable land and natural resource development in Cambodia Open Development Cambodia (ODC), Cambodia Undisclosed: Practical examples of financial sector disclosure and why it’s critical for communities to know who is financing activities on their land Oxfam International, Australia Estimating industrial concession area in the developing world: Results and conclusions Rights and Resources Initiative, United States of America | ||||||
10:30am - 12:00pm | 10-12: Large investments: Protecting human rights & environment Session Chair: Ward Anseeuw, International Land Coalition, Italy | ||||||
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The ASEAN guidelines on promoting responsible investment in food, agriculture and forestry International Institute for Sustainable Development, Switzerland Private law and agricultural development – Improving agricultural land investment contracts and making them consistent with the VGGT and CFS-RAI Principles 1UNIDROIT, Italy; 2FAO, Italy Agricultural investments under international investment law 1Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, United States of America; 2International Institute for Sustainable Development, Canada; 3International Institute for Environment and Development, United Kingdom Undermining justice: The investment treaty regime and affected third parties Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, United States of America | ||||||
2:00pm - 3:30pm | 11-12: Gathering the data needed to assess large farm productivity Session Chair: Daniel Ayalew Ali, World Bank, United States of America | ||||||
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Root for the tubers: extended-harvest crop production and productivity measurement in surveys 1The World Bank, Italy; 2University of Malawi; 3Consultant
How much can we trust farmer self-reported data on crop varieties? Experimental evidence using DNA fingerprinting of cassava varieties in Malawi 1The Living Standards Measurement Study, Development Data Group, the World Bank, Italy; 2CGIAR Independent Science and Partnership Council’s Standing Panel on Impact Assessment, Italy; 3University of Canberra, Australia; 4International Institute of Tropical Agriculture Malawi; 5Chitedze National Agricultural Research Institute, Malawi; 6CAVA2, Malawi
Land measurement bias: comparisons from GPS, self-reports and satellite data 1Northwestern University, USA; 2Asian Development Bank, Philippines
Assessing the impact of systematic measurement error in farmer-reported crop production on the scale-productivity relationship: evidence from a survey experiment in Mali The World Bank, Italy
From the ground up: integrating survey and geospatial data for improved soil fertility measurement at scale World Bank, Italy
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9:00am - 10:30am | 12-02: Analyzing and improving land conflict resolution mechanisms - sharing experiences from the GIZ Global Program Responsble Land Policy | ||
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Analyzing and improving land conflict resolution mechanisms - sharing experiences from the GIZ Global Program Responsible Land Policy Independent Expert, Germany
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11:00am - 12:30pm | 13-02: Using machine learning for property valuation | ||
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Using machine learning for property valuation 1World Bank, United States of America; 2World Bank, United States of America
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1:30pm - 3:00pm | 14-02: The Land Matrix: An open online tool to collect, visualize and provide information about large-scale land acquisitions and to support decentralized land observatories. | ||
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The Land Matrix: An open online tool to collect, visualize and provide information about large-scale land acquisitions and to support decentralized land observatories. GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies / Land Matrix Initiative, Germany
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