Conference Agenda

State of land in the Mekong region

Micah Ingalls¹, Jean-Christophe Diepart², Nhu Truong³, Daniel Hayward⁴, Tony Neil⁵, Chanthavone Phomphakdy¹, Rasso Bernhard¹, Sinu Fogarizzu¹, Michael Epprecht¹, Vong Nanhthavong¹, Dang Hung Vo⁶, Dzung Nguyen⁷, Phong Nguyen⁸, Thatheva Saphangthong⁹, Chanthaviphone Inthavong¹⁰, Cornelia Hett¹, Nicholas Tagliarino¹¹

¹University of Bern, Lao PDR; ²Mekong Region Land Governance Project, Lao PDR; ³McGill University, Canada; ⁴Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development, Thailand; ⁵Independent; ⁶Hanoi University, Vietnam; ⁷World Bank, Vietnam; ⁸Institute for Policy and Strategy for Agriculture and Rural Development, Vietnam; ⁹Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Lao PDR; ¹⁰Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Lao PDR; ¹¹UN Habitat, The Netherlands

New innovations-old problems: the case of the flexible land tenure system and communal land registration in Namibia

Charl-Thom Hilgardt Bayer

Namibia University of Science and Technology, Namibia

"A limited contribution to a complex development problem"? Land titling and land tenure in the Mekong region

Michael Dwyer², Naomi Basik Treanor¹, Phuc Xuan To^1,3, Quang Nguyen¹, Sophal Chan⁴, Kevin Woods¹, Thoumthone Vongvisouk⁵, Jean-Christophe Diepart⁶

¹Forest Trends, United States of America; ²University of Colorado, United States of America; ³Australian National University, Australia; ⁴Centre for Policy Studies, Cambodia; ⁵National University of Laos, Lao PDR; ⁶Mekong Regional Land Governance Project, Lao PDR

What policy lessons can we learn from stalled land reforms? Insights from Senegal

Marie Gagne¹, Cheikh Oumar Ba², Ibrahima Ka²

¹University of Toronto, Canada; ²Initiative Prospective Agricole et Rurale (IPAR), Senegal