Conference Agenda

Survey Solutions: An open source software to collect socio-economic and spatial data

Sergiy Radyakin, Michael Lokshin

World Bank, United States of America

Practical experience with mapping informal farms and houses in Zambia

Emmanuel Tembo³, Frank Kakungu², Kelvin Chibangula³, Shadreck Mutti¹

1: World Bank, Zambia; 2: Central Statistics Office, Zambia; 3: MLNR, Zambia

Combining drone imagery, street view, cadastral data and machine learning for urban development

Luis Triveno

World Bank, United States of America

Data collaboratives: How data sharing can yield better insights

Holly Krambeck, Sarah Antos

World Bank, United States of America

Building capacity to use drone imagery for land administration and management: Opportunities and challenges

Edward Anderson

World Bank group, Tanzania

Linking cadastral data & imagery to assess cultivation status of large land acquisitions: Examples from Ethiopia and Malawi

Brad Bottoms

New Light Technologies, United States of America

Identifying changes in housing investments using satellite imagery

Dunstan Matekenya

World Bank, United States of America

Using census maps to put chiefs' areas on the map: Evidence from Malawi

Julius Brian Chawezi Chisi¹, Emmanuel Nkurunziza², Davie Chilonga¹

1: Ministry of Lands Housing and Urban Development, Malawi; 2: RCMRD, Kenya

Using the SDG module to assess to documents, tenure insecurity, and demand for title

Daniel Ayalew Ali¹, Klaus Deininger¹, Emmanuel Tembo², Frank Kakungu³, YuanYuan Yi¹

1: World Bank, United States of America; 2: MLNR, ZambiaCSO, Zambia; 3: CSO, zambia

Land inequality and development: Potential lessons for Africa from East Asia’s experience

Richard Frank Studwell

Overseas Development Institute, United Kingdom

History of ESF consultation and what was agreed and why

Jonathan Lindsay

World Bank, United States of America

The importance and implication of the ESF to provide support and supervise projects

Noreen Beg

World Bank, United States of America

The importance and implications of the new ESF for land projects and for projects with land components / issues

Jorge Munoz

World Bank, United States of America

ESF and land issues in Africa

Robin Mearns

World Bank, United States of America

What Governments can do to harness the potential of big data

Julia Lane

NYU, United States of America

Benefits from open access to cadastral data: Lessons from Uruguay

Sylvia Amado

DNC, Uruguay

Technology for Simplification and Modernisation of the Common agricultural Policy

Felix Rembold

Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Italy

Opening remarks

Kristalina I. Georgieva

World Bank, United States of America

Digital technologies and land governance in Africa

Estherine Lisinge Fotabong

AUDA-NEPAD, South Africa

Land policies to allow effective urban service delivery and expansion: Ethiopia’s experience

H.E. Jantirar Abay Yigzaw

Ministry of Urban Development and Construction, Ethiopia

Why regularizing informal properties in Chile is a priority

Alejandra Bravo Hidalgo

Ministry of National Assets, Chile

Keynote: Linking satellite and administrative data for land economics research and practice

Adam Storeygard

Tufts University, United States of America

Building on new data for evidence-based land policy in Africa

Njuguna Ndung'u

African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), Kenya

Anthropic activities and sustainability of the natural resources of the Lomako-Yokokala Fauna Reserve (RFLY) in DR Congo.

Sankiana Malankanga Gerard

Higher Institute of Agronomic Studies of Mvuazi, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Implementing approach for responsibility management of pasture use in

Gerlee Shuuduv, Batbileg Bayaraa

Mongolian University of Life Sciences, Mongolia

Kyrgyz pastures - nomad heritage (traditional approaches in pasture degradation struggle)

Elvira Maratova, Abdimalik Egemberdiev

KYRGYZ JAYITY National pasture users' association, Kyrgyzstan

Farm’s natural resources management strategy

Kjeld van Wieringen, Kevin Kiffer, Marine Gourves

Mercy Corps, Democratic Republic of the Congo

"Developing community-based land use planning system using the community resource management area (CREMA) model in Ghana

Offei Affam Jerry^1,2, Mensah Frederick², Acquah Kwaku Nyamekye³

1: Kukje Theological University, Republic of Korea (South Korea); 2: Pals of the Earth-Ghana; 3: Take Care Africa Foundation-Ghana

Documenting communal land rights: understanding the use and management of communal land in the highland regions of Ethiopia

Felicity Buckle, John Leckie

DAI, United Kingdom

Land tenancy, contract term and land conservation-theoretical and empirical analyses on apple growers

Lianhua Zhang, Xuexi Huo

Northwest A&F University, People's Republic of China

Sustainable practices diffusion in socio-ecological systems: the Gorutuba Irrigation Perimeter (Brazil) analysis

Rafael Faria de Abreu Campos^1,2, Dênis Antônio da Cunha³, Newton Paulo Bueno⁴

1: Regional Economics Applications Laboratory / The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; 2: Centro de Desenvolvimento e Planejamento Regional / Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais; 3: Universidade Federal de Viçosa; 4: FUCAPE Business School

Building on local pastoralists’ knowledge for effective management of the arid and semi arid areas

Deborah Muricho¹, David Otieno¹, Willis Kosura¹, Magnus Jistrom²

1: University of Nairobi, Kenya, Kenya; 2: Lund University, Sweden

Forest planning decision model to restore forest denudation of N. Korea

Wonho Lee, Hyeonggeun Kim

LX Korea Land and Geospatial Informatix Corp., Republic of Korea (South Korea)

ILMS - global land transfer standard

James Kavanagh¹, Duncan Moss²

1: RICS, United Kingdom; 2: Ordnance Survey, United Kingdom

Measuring multi-dimensional poverty analysis in Nepal: a study of poverty alleviation fund intervention programme districts

Nahakul K.C.

Poverty Alleviation Fund Nepal, Nepal

Monitoring progress towards the 2030 sustainability goals: "Trends.Earth" as a support tool for achieving land degradation neutrality

Mariano Gonzalez-Roglich, Alex Zvoleff, Monica Noon

Conservation International, United States of America

Weak signals for future cadastral systems

Kirsikka Riekkinen^1,2, Pauliina Krigsholm², Oluwafemi Adekola¹

1: Aalto University, Finland; 2: National Land Survey of Finland

A practical method for evaluating institutional arrangements and policy indicators of land administration system

Samsudin Salfarina, Suratman Robiah

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia

Evolution régimes foncier en Guinée-Conakry

Barry Alpha Amadou

Cabinet CAGEOFI - OGEG, Guinea

Spatial flood damage assessment mapping in Abeokuta

Ayoola Akingbogun

Pointmile Geotech, Nigeria

Achieving SDGs through land consolidation in rural regions of Uttar Pradesh state in India

Aswani Kumar Munnangi, Bharat Lohani, Subhas Chandra Misra, Vipul Sharma

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India

International Standards – key to unlocking the value of green buildings?

Benjamin Lee Elder

RICS, United Kingdom

Transforming social norms about women’s land and property rights

Lori Rolleri, Manisha Mehta

Wellspring Philanthropic Fund, United States of America

Opportunities for innovation: lessons from land rights work in the African Great Lakes Region.

David Betge

ZOA, The Netherlands

Protecting Ugandan customary land tenure through documentation of Principles, Practices, Rights and Responsibilities (PPRR)

Liz Neate, Judy Adoko

LEMU: Land and Equity Movement in Uganda, Uganda

Of the substantive law in the common law: where is the blocking limiting the access to the landed property of the women in Côte d'Ivoire

Guy Oscar Sical Toukpo, Honnéo Gabin Tarrouth

UNIVERSITE FELIX HOUPHOUET BOIGNY, Côte d'Ivoire

Leveraging the Sustainable Development Goals to strengthen women’s land rights: takeaways from the espaco feminista model in Brazil

Gina Alvarado¹, Patricia Maria Queiroz Chaves², Diana Fletschner¹

1: Landesa, United States of America; 2: Espaço Feminista, Brazil

Financial inclusion through increasing land access rights and improving security of tenure a major pillar to reduce inequality and poverty in Uganda

Cissy Namuddu Settumba Kiyaga, Simon Kabogoza, Bashir Kizito Juma, David Kyewalabye-Male

Buganda Land Board, Uganda

Delving into the relationship between land tenure and food security using the case of Ayeyarwaddy, Myanmar

Gina Alvarado, Elizabeth Louis, Vinod Dharmarajan, Cathrin Anderson, Mark West

Landesa, United States of America

The impact of land rights regularization on the cassava technology adoption among smallholder farmers in Mozambique: the case of pro-poor value chain development project in the Maputo and Limpopo corridors (PROSUL)

Daniel Ozias Mate, Constantino Estevão Cuambe, Daniel Vasco Simango, Pinto Novo Zeca Stella

Agricultural Development Fund (FDA)/ Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (MASA), Mozambique

Gender and land acquisition: implications for agricultural development in Nigeria.

Olubunmi Lawrence Balogun, Taofeek Ayodeji Ayo-Bello, Kayode Ayantoye

Babcock University, Nigeria; Babcock University, Nigeria; Kwara State University, Nigeria

Integrating strategic peacebuilding approach into land and environmental conflict resolution for better Indonesia peace infrastructure

Novita Liangga Kumala

University of Notre Dame, United States of America

From commitment to practice: lessons from efforts to implement corporate policies to respect land rights

Mina Manuchehri, Scott Schang

Landesa

Strengthening farmers’ land rights in Malawi

Dr Janet Banda SC¹, Felix Mangani¹, Davie Chilonga¹, Mishek Longwe¹, David Harris²

1: Ministry of Lands, Housing & Urban Development, Malawi; 2: DAI Europe

Refugees influx, land access and second generation health outcomes in host communities: evidence from Tanzania

Soazic Elise Wang Sonne

The World Bank Group

The conceptual framework on women’s land tenure security: an action tool

Amanda Richardson, Elisa Scalise, Renee Giovarelli

Resource Equity

Linking land tenure and use, catalyzing land use innovation for grassroots women

Danny Lattimore, Wacha Ben, Grace Loumo

Action for Women and Awakening in Rural Environment Uganda, Uganda

From culture to human rights; unmasking the gendered perspectives in the application of law and existing culture in protecting vulnerable widow’s land rights.

Jessica Oluoch

KELIN Kenya, Kenya

Housing provision and land rights in the quilombola community Ribeirão da Mutuca (Brazil).

Elizabeth Othon de Souza

Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade de São Paulo - FAUUSP, Brazil

Grassroots women’s land rights for development

Nakwang Violet Loumo, Danny Lattimore

Action for Women and Awakening in Rural Environment Uganda, Uganda

Norms formation: California gold rush and women's roles

Sandra Aguilar-Gomez¹, Anja Benshaul-Tolonen²

1: Columbia University, United States of America; 2: Barnard College, United States of America

Innovative approaches in transforming social norms for strengthened women's land rights and security of tenure

Frances Birungi Odong

Uganda Community Based Association for Women and Children's welfare ( UCOBAC), Uganda

Land grabbing and the land justice movement in Taiwan

Grace Li-Min Liao¹, Shih-Jung Hsu²

1: China University of Technology, Taiwan; 2: National Chengchi University, Taiwan

Peaceful land for future citizen

Yalemzewid Demssie Fantaye

Ministry of Agriculture, Ethiopia

Tenure responsive land governance: the case of government-community partnership towards improving livelihoods in Kenya and Uganda

Agatha Wanyonyi¹, Oumar Sylla¹, Harold Liversage²

1: UN-Habitat, Kenya; 2: IFAD

Land tenure in Sub-Saharan Africa and its implications for access and benefit-sharing to bio-diversity

Ayodele Adewole

University of Jos, Nigeria

Legal establishments and gendered access to land in patriarchal societies of North-Western Ghana

Paul Boniface Akaabre, Kizito Doghle, Rudith S. King

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana

Women’s life cycle as a pathway to land rights on customary tenure in west Nile region of Uganda: lessons for certification and titling.

Herbert Kamusiime¹, Naome Kabanda², Christine Kajumba¹, Eddie Nsamba-Gayiiya³, Margaret Rugadya⁴

1: Associates Research Uganda; 2: Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development; 3: Consultant Surveyors and Planners; 4: Global Expert - Land and Natural Resources

Practical approaches to implementing and monitoring free, prior and informed consent processes

Luis Felipe Duchicela

Equitable Origin, United States of America

The impact of land rights regularization on the cassava technology adoption among smallholder farmers in Mozambique: the case of pro-poor value chain development project in the Maputo and Limpopo corridors (PROSUL)

Daniel Ozias Mate, Constantino Estevão Cuambe, Daniel Vasco Simango, Pinto Novo Zeca Stella, Rubino Francesco

Agricultural Development Fund (FDA)/ Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (MASA), Mozambique

Innovative approaches for promoting gender responsive land governance processes for strengthened women’s land rights and equitable land rights: application of the Gender Evaluation Criteria on land rights registration processes on customary land

Frances Birungi Odong¹, Antonio Danilo², Simon Peter Mwesigye²

1: Uganda Community Based Association for Women and Children's Welfare (UCOBAC), Uganda; 2: UN Habitat/ Global Land Tools Network

Linking land tenure and use, catalyzing land use innovation for grassroots women

Okwi Tonny

Action for Women and Awakening in Rural Environment Uganda, Uganda

The land tenure system in Bangladesh: trends, challenges and options for reforms

Laskar Muqsudur Rahman

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Bangladesh

Discourse on Customary Land Act 2016: evolution of land rights or devolution of powers

Edward Chikhwenda

University of Malawi Polytechnic, Malawi

Today's urban families are rapidly losing their connections and kinship ties with rural families, making the new generations ignorant about the ways of life, production processes, and food origins that are served at the table

Jose de Arimateia Barbosa¹, Ariane Silva Barbosa², Rui Barbosa Netto³

1: Secretary of the Association of Notaries and Registrars of the State of Mato Grosso- Brazil; 2: Lowyer, Brazil; 3: Notary, Brazil

Land-based livelihoods and gender vulnerability: a study of cultural inheritance practices in select African states

Bankole Sulihaj Allibay

Translantic Development Limited, United Kingdom

Land regularization of quilombola community in Brazil

Daniella Farias Scarassatti¹, Delaíde Silva Passos², Adâmara Santos GonçalvesFelício³, Isabelle Picelli⁴, Bastiaan Philip Reydon⁵

1: Campinas City Hall, Brazil; 2: University of Campinas; 3: University of Campinas; 4: Instituto Nacional de Colonização e Reforma Agrária; 5: University of Campinas

Human rights and land policy in quilombola lands: a decade of construction (2008-2018)

Delaide Passos¹, Adâmara Felício¹, Bastiaan Reydon¹, Richard Torsiano², Daniella Scarassatti¹

1: UNICAMP, Brazil; 2: FAO, Brazil

Towards a responsive customary land rights security in rural Ghana: adopting a rural titling approach

Derek Osei-Tutu, Michael Appiah

Lands Commission, Ghana

State land inventories using the voluntary guidelines on the responsible governance of tenure (VGGT) - case of Madagascar

Herilala Axel Fanomezantsoa¹, Jean ousmane Camara², Rinda herrick Andriamitaha³, Edson samuel Noharinjanahary⁴

1: Consultant; 2: Land Reform Coordination Unit; 3: Cercom; 4: Essa

Role of income distribution and consumption expenditure on agriculture output: case of Nigeria

Irfan Ahmed¹, Hassan Kasady Al Mahdi¹, Claudio Socci²

1: Jazan University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,; 2: University of Macerata, Italy

Government intervention for superior land acquisition outcomes

Sankalp Sharma¹, Tajamul Haque², Anil Giri³

1: Kent State University - Tuscarawas, United States of America; 2: NITI Aayog, India; 3: University of Central Missouri, United States of America

Local infrastructure effects: large-scale land acquisition.

Rasangi Himesha Hewakopara

Ministry of Lands & Parliamentary Reforms, Sri Lanka

The dichotomy of tenure arrangements and its effects on land acquisition and compensation: evidence from Zambia

Christopher Mulenga¹, Anthony Mushinge², Sam Mwando³

1: University of Lusaka, Zambia; 2: Copperbelt University, Zambia; 3: Namibia University of Science and Technology, Namibia

Identifying yield gap and potential crop production in Ethiopia, Gambella Region

Azeb Degife

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany

Monitoring large-scale land acquisitions using open data platforms for improved decision making

Mercy Ojoyi

Land Matrix Initiative, South Africa

Implementation of infrastructure expansion projects in Tanzania: -the property rights quagmire

Felician Komu¹, Agnes Mwasumbi²

1: Majengo Estates Dev, Tanzania; 2: Land Administration Unit, Ardhi University, Tanzania

Le soutien des communautés locales à la maîtrise de la gestion foncière : un bon prétexte de déploiement de nouveaux outils de sécurisation du foncier et d’acquisition des terres

Ndeye Coura Mbaye Diop¹, Alain Diouf¹, Pape Samba Ndiaye¹, Aliou Bassoum¹, André Teyssier²

1: PDIDAS, Senegal; 2: Banque Mondiale

Displacement in the name of development: insights from Zimbabwe

Fadzai Chipato

China Agricultural University, People's Republic of China

Gold mining in Eastern Cameroon: The rights of artisanal miners in the face of semi-mechanized mining

Hyacinthe Eric Bamamen Bisil¹, Brendan Schwartz², Jaff Napoléon Bamenjo³

1: Centre pour l'Environnement et le Développement, Cameroon; 2: International Institute for Environment and Development; 3: Network for The Fight Against Hunger

The bottlenecks in large scale land acquisition for agriculture: a case study of Azama, Inikorogha and Opuede communities in Gbaramatu Kingdom.

Angela Kesiena Etuonovbe^1,3, Bosin Boi Ebikeme², Alfred Tortor², Eugene Takpobunor Etuonovbe³

1: Angene Surveys & Consultants, Nigeria; 2: Gbaramatu Kingdom; 3: GFSH Consult Ltd, Nigeria

Lessons from the promised land: a case study of ‘land for land’ compensation for the Buseruka Oil Refinery, Uganda

Liz Neate

LEMU: Land and Equity Movement in Uganda, Uganda

Impact of land fragmentation on productivity and profitability of crops in Pakistan

Rakhshanda Kousar¹, Muhammad Sohail Amjad Makhdum², Tahira Sadaf¹, M.Bilal Liaqat¹

1: University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan; 2: Government College University Faisalabad, Pakistan

Land

Bixia Hu

Huazhong University of Science and Technology, People's Republic of China

Land readjustment: the missing link in progressive urban land management in Zimbabwe

Charles Chavunduka

University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe

Polycentricity; a panacea for managing urban expansion in secondary towns? A planning scenario study of Mumias Town, Western Kenya

Herbert Musoga

National Land Commission, Kenya

Design and implement of discount-oriented businesses based on the sale of targeted partnership shares and improved Government’s rules and regulations

Jafar Oshriyeh, Maryam Foroozan

Islamic Republic of Iran

An analysis of the effects of urban expansion and housing problems on resident’s quality of life in the outskirts of Lagos, Nigeria

Abimbola Omolabi

Yaba College of Technology, Yaba- Lagos, Nigeria

Research on the moderate-scale of apple farmers in different targets

Congying Zhang, Qian Chang, Xuexi Huo

Northwest A&F University, People's Republic of China

Urban population modeling: towards a better planning

Eduardo Perez-Denicia, Ricardo Ochoa-Sosa, Jose Eduardo Diaz-Azcunaga

CAPSUS, Mexico

Land use change detection and prediction using GIS and Remote Sensing, case study of Nsukka Urban, Enugu, Nigeria

Victor Chukwuemeka Nnam¹, Jude Ejike Okonkwor²

1: Surveyors Council of Nigeria (SURCON), Nigeria; 2: Department of Surveying and Geoinformatics, Enugu State University of Science and Technology, Nigeria

Opening remarks

Godfrey Bahiigwa

African Union Commission, Ethiopia

The role of land governance in achieving Agenda 2063 and SDGs

Dr. Ibrahim Assane Mayaki

AUDA-NEPAD, South Africa

Consolidating transparent land administration and land revenue generation in Uganda

Hon. Betty Ongom Amongi

Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Uganda

The way forward on land reform in Namibia: lessons from the 2nd National Land Conference

Hon. Utoni Nujoma

Ministry of Land Reform, Namibia

Strengthening land governance in Mali

Hon. Mohamed M. Sidibe

Ministry of Housing and Urban Planning, Mali

Increasing the transparency and decentralization in Ukrainian land relations

Liudmyla Shemelynets, Dmytro Makarenko

State Service of Ukraine for Geodesy, Cartography and Cadastre, Ukraine

Roll-out of e-services and e-auctions - progress and challenges ahead

Denis Bashlyk

State Service of Ukraine for Geodesy, Cartography and Cadastre, Ukraine

Towards a methodology for automatic cadastral error identification

Vladimir Popov

World Bank, Ukraine

World Bank support to help improve land governance in Ukraine

David Egiashvili, Sandra Broka, Klaus Deininger

World Bank, Ukraine

Increasing cadastral survey productivity to tackle undocumented land rights worldwide: A case study

Stephanie Michaud

Trimble Inc, United States of America

Large-scale Mapping

Poul Noergaard

Leica Geosystem, Denmark

An innovative affordable and decentralized model for land registration and administration at a national scale in Tanzania

Tressan Sullivan, Malaki Msigwa, Gilead Mushaija, Mustapha Issa, Alexander Sololov

DAI Global LLC, Tanzania

Leveraging location-enabled street photos and machine learning to automate large-scale data collection in support of property valuation

Tim Fella, Katherine Smyth

ESRI, United States of America

A tripartite normative interaction in land registration: inheritance and land information updating

Zaid Abubakari, Christine Richter, Jaap A. Zevenbergen

University of Twente, Netherlands

Women and customary land tenure: emerging developments and ways forward in Savelugu, Ghana

Prince Donkor Ameyaw¹, Uchendu Eugene Chigbu¹, Walter Timo de Vries¹, Simon Peter Mwesigye², Eric Yeboah³

1: Techninical University of Munich, Germany; 2: UN-Habitat / Global Land Tool Network, Uganda; 3: Kwame Nkrumah Univerisy of Science and Technonology, Ghana

Securing property rights for Women and children through Distributed Ledger Technology in Judiciary

Manohar Velpuri

Absolutum Consultancy Private Limited, India

Women and land: A conflict of culture and law

Beverly Mumbo, Miriam Wachira, Caroline Oduor, Teresa Omondi

Federation of Women Layers, Kenya

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

1: ActionAid USA, United States of America; 2: Rede Social de Justiça e Direitos Humanos, Brasil; 3: ActionAid Brasil, Brasil; 4: Comissão 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

1: UK Department for International Development, Rwanda; 2: Mokoro ltd

Democratizing the data revolution: bringing local perspectives to the surface

Lisette Mey, Laura Meggiolaro

Land Portal Foundation, Netherlands, The

Capturing data gaps: comparative study on availability of land data in Africa

Lisette Mey¹, Michael Odhiambo², Laura Meggiolaro¹

1: Land Portal Foundation, Netherlands, The; 2: People, Land and Rural Development, Kenya

The role of people-centered data in land governance monitoring: preliminary results from the Dashboard Initiative

Eva Hershaw¹, Ward Anseeuw²

1: International Land Coalition; 2: International Land Coalition, CIRAD

Developing a country stakeholder strategy for the global property right perception survey (Prindex)

David Ameyaw, Malcolm Childress

International Center for Evaluation and Development, Kenya

Rwanda land registration is complete – now what? the view of an NGO.

Annie Kairaba¹, Bernis Byamukama²

1: Rwanda Initiative for Sustainable Development (RISD), Rwanda; 2: Department for International Development (DFID), Rwanda

Common pool resource access rights and wrongs: Insights from Ghana

Patrick Opoku

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH, Ghana

Spatial planning for land use and protection as an anti-poverty tool in rural areas: case study of innovative approaches on the USAID-funded agriculture and rural development support project

Sergii Kubakh, Patrick Rader

Chemonics International Inc.

The official biological killing of productive land under the silence of a class of citizens and applause of others: when all contribute in destroying living land!!!

Abdelkader Marouane¹, Abderrezak Benhabib²

1: Ibn Khaldoun University of Tiaret (Algeria); 2: Abou-Bekr Blekaid University of Tlemcen (Algeria)

Improving governance of tenure: Technology as the enabler

Wordsworth Odame Larbi¹, Maria Paola Rizzo²

1: FAO, Ethiopia; 2: FAO, HQ, Italy

Self-declaration of value: an option for the urban property tax

William McCluskey¹, Riel Franzsen¹, Peadar Davis²

1: African Tax Institute, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa; 2: School of the Built Environment, University of Ulster, N. Ireland, UK

Valuing property with bad data: utilizing GIS and spatial modeling to achieve equitable property tax valuations in the face of incomplete data

Paul Bidanset¹, Jones Brent²

1: IAAO; 2: Esri

Response surface analysis (RSA): modeling values in geographically sparse markets

William Mccluskey¹, Paul Bidanset², Peadar Davis³, Michael McCord³

1: African Tax Institute, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa; 2: International Association of Assessing Officers, Kansas, United States; 3: School of the Built Environment, University of Ulster, N. Ireland, UK

Standard price points in spatial interpolation. A case study

Risto Peltola, Mikko Korpela, Pauliina Krigsholm, Arthur Kreivi

National Land Survey, Finland

Using remote sensing data and machine learning to value property in Kigali, Rwanda

Felix Bachofer¹, Jonathan Bower², Andreas Braun³, Paul Brimble⁴, Patrick McSharry⁵

1: German Aerospace Center; 2: International Growth Centre, Rwanda; 3: University of Tübingen; 4: Ministry of Economic and Financial Planning, Rwanda; 5: Carnegie Mellon University

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

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

1: Dutch Cadastre, Land Registry and Mapping Agency (Kadaster), Netherlands, The; 2: University of Munich Germany; 3: National Land Survey Finland; 4: Aalto 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

1: GIZ - Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit, Kosovo; 2: MAFRD - 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

Secure Tenure for all starts to emerge: New Experiences of Countries implementing a Fit-For-Purpose Approach to Land Administration

Stig Enemark¹, Robin McLaren²

1: Aalborg University, Denmark; 2: KnowEdge, United Kingdom

Fit-for-purpose land administration strategy: an innovative approach to implement land policies in Nepal

Janak Raj Joshi¹, Uma Shankar Pandey², Raja Ram Chhatkuli³, Stig Enemark⁴, Danilo Antonio⁵, Jagat Deuja⁶, Oumar Sylla⁷

1: Ministry of Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation, Government of Nepal; 2: Kathmandu University, Nepal; 3: UNHABITAT, Nepal; 4: Aalborg University, Denmark; 5: Land and GLTN Unit, Land and Governance Branch, UN-Habitat, Kenya; 6: Community Self Reliance Center, Kathmandu Nepal; 7: Land and GLTN Unit, UN-Habitat, Kenya

Creating resilience to natural disasters through FFP land administration – an application in Nepal

Eva-Maria Unger¹, Raja Ram Chhatkuli², Danilo Antonio³, Christiaan Lemmen¹, Jaap Zevenbergen⁴, Rohan Bennett⁵, Paula Dijkstra¹

1: Kadaster, Netherlands, The; 2: UN-Habitat Nepal; 3: UN-Habitat Global Land Tool Network; 4: University Twente, ITC Faculty of Geo-information Science and Earth Observation; 5: Swinburne University of Technology

Fit for Purpose Land Administration: Innovations as a result of country implementations

Cornelis de Zeeuw¹, Chrit Lemmen^1,2, Eva-maria Unger¹, Paula Dijkstra¹, Mathilde Molendijk¹, Ernst-Peter Oosterbroek¹, Christelle van den Berg¹

1: Kadaster, Netherlands, The; 2: Twente University - ITC

Challenges of making land available for large-scale investment in commercial agriculture in Tanzania: the case of Missenyi district

Joseph Mukasa Lusugga Kironde, Sophia Kongela

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

Ellen Pratt¹, Ethan Miller², Uriah Garsinii¹

1: Liberia Land Authority; 2: IDH, The Sustainable Trade Initiative

Building harmonized private and state land data and information systems in Ethiopia

Mulugeta Tadesse¹, Tommi Tenno², Oliver Schoenweger¹, Yohannes Redda², Zerfu Hailu²

1: Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Ethiopia; 2: NIRAS

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

Thyn Zar Oo¹, Kyaw Htun^1,2, Nwai Aye Aye Wai^1,3

1: The PLAN: Public Legal Aid Network, Myanmar; 2: Emerald Sea Group; 3: River Mekong Group

Catalyzing Innovation: Lessons from Uganda: Innovating land governance in predominantly customary settings.

David Betge², Zeno Pack¹, Thorsten Huber¹

1: GIZ, Uganda; 2: ZOA, Uganda

Evaluation of the land inventory approach for securing tenure of lawful and bona fide occupants on private mailo land in Uganda

Thorsten Huber¹, Moses Musinguzi², Daniel Kirumira¹, Pamella Drate¹

1: Responsible Land Policy in Uganda (RELAPU), GIZ; 2: Department of Geomatics and Land Management, Makerere University, Uganda

Land use Policy; implementing the Physical planning Act, in the context of Malawi land reform program implementation

Dr Janet L. Banda, Felix Tukula, Devie Chilonga

Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Malawi

The role of customary authorities in land administration: Examples from Tanzania and Ethiopia

Maija Hyle, Zerfu Hailu

NIRAS, Ethiopia

Using building footprint data to inform planning & monitor compliance with land use regulations: The case of Kigali & Musanze

Rhona Nyakulama, Gaspard Nelson Habiyaremye, Jean Claude Ntirenganya

Independent consultant, Rwanda

Establishing an interoperable land information system in Bamako for urban development

Checkine Mamadou Dieffaga

secretariat permanent de la reforme domaniale et fonciere au Mali, Mali

Strategies to ensure sustainability of Rwanda’s registry: Paperless registration of marriage/death, fee reductions, and regulatory change

Nishimwe Marie Grace

Rwanda Natural Resources Authority, Rwanda

Tenure insecurity and demand for land documents in Zambia: Evidence from a nation-wide household survey

Frank Kakungu¹, Daniel Ali², Klaus Deininger², Yuanyuan Yi²

1: Central Statisticsl Office, Zambia; 2: World Bank, United States of America

Opening

Laura Tuck

World Bank, United States of America

Keynote: Urbanism and climate change – A holistic approach to climate change

Peter Calthorpe

Calthorpe Associates, United States of America

Report Launch

Xueman Wang

World Bank, United States of America

Panelist

Khoo Teng Chye

Centre for Livable Cities of the Ministry of National Development, Singapore

Panelist

Anu Ramaswami

University of Minnesota, United States of America

Panelist

Wei Xu

Development Research Center of the State Council, China, People's Republic of

Panelist

Ellen Hamilton

World Bank, United States of America

Innovation through artificial intelligence

Mureed Mustafa

Emirates Real Estate Solutions, United Arab Emirates

Beyond blockchain: technology in the land agenda

Aanchal Anand

World Bank, United States of America

Evaluating the hype: the current potential of blockchain for land

Tim Robustelli

Future of Property Rights Program at New America

Digital identity, housing data, and disaster resilience in Puerto Rico

Christopher Mellon

New America, United States of America

Improving gender equality in land tenure in the Republic Geodetic Authority of Serbia

Vasilija Zivanovic¹, Borko Draskovic¹, Rumyana Tonchovska², Sasa Rikanovic¹

1: Republic Geodetic Authority, Serbia; 2: UN Food and Agriculture Organization

From laws to action: Achieving SDG indicator 5.a.2 in the Western Balkans

Naomi Kenney¹, Adela Llatja², Margreet Goelema², Rumyana Tonchovska¹, Lovro Tomasic³, Margret Vidar¹, Bianca Wengenmayer³

1: FAO, Italy; 2: GIZ, Germany; 3: UINL, Italy

Using open data to analyze participation in the labor market and property registration of women in Kosovo

Brikene Meha, Barlet Meha

Marin Sh.P.K., Kosovo

Women, Financial Inclusion and the Law: Why Property Rights matter for Women's access to and use of financial services

Tazeen Hasan, Nayda Almodovar

World Bank Group, United States of America

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

Governance effectiveness evaluation and cost benefit analysis of one map policy delivery institutions at the sub-national level in Indonesia

Nanda Noor¹, Anita Silalahi¹, Adi Pradana¹, Aris Haryanto²

1: World Resources Institute (WRI) Indonesia; 2: Geospatial Information Agency (BIG) of the Government of Republic of Indonesia

Mapping indigenous land: lesson learned from One Map Initiative in Indonesia

Dwiki Ridhwan, Carolina Astri, Dean Affandi, Fajar Muis, Lawalata Julius

World Resources Institute Indonesia, Indonesia

Towards prosperity and sustainability: The progress of social forestry implementation in Indonesia

Dimas Fauzi¹, Satrio Wicaksono¹, Adelina Chandra², Fadhilla Husnul Khatimah³

1: WRI Indonesia, Indonesia; 2: Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies, Sweden; 3: Coordinating Ministry of Economic Affairs, Indonesia

Customary land secretariats in Ghana as change agents in land dispute management

Gad Asorwoe Akwensivie, Dickson Agbogah

Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources, Ghana

Innovative customary land governance in Zambia: experiences, lessons learned and emerging impacts

David Katungula¹, Morgan Kumwenda², Danilo Antonio³, Moonga Chilanga³, Hellen Nyamweru-Ndungu³

1: People's Process on Housing & Poverty in Zambia, Zambia; 2: Chamuka Royal Establishment; 3: UN-Habitat/GLTN

Improving customary land administration in Ghana- CLSs shows the way

Coleman Clarence Bosompim Coleman Clarence Bosompim

Office of the Administrator of Stool Lands, Ghana

Making Customary Land Secretariats financially and operationally sustainable from the ground up in Ghana

Thomas Vaassen¹, Igor Popiv², Carol Roffer², Simon Ulvund¹

1: Meridia, Netherlands; 2: Innola, United States of America

Supporting local government administrations through public private partnerships (PPP).

Gasant Jacobs¹, Abdelwahab Zramdini²

1: Cotecna Inspection SA, United Arab Emirates; 2: Cotecna Inspection SA, Geneva

Land characteristics survey in Korea, utilizing spatial information

Jinho Choi, Nana Lee

Korea Appraisal Board, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of a satellite–based approach to maintaining a property database

Graham Deane, Robert M Owen

Airbus Defence and Space, United Kingdom

The points-based method: simplification of valuation processes for property tax purposes

Asaah Nyah Zebong, Wilson Prichard, Paul Fish

International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD), Cameroon

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

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

1: Associates Research Trust Uganda, Uganda; 2: Resource Equity, US; 3: Global 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

1: Rights and Resources Initiative, United States of America; 2: Environmental Law Institute, Malawi

Delivering land administration services at scale

Ishak Sallehuddin

Ministry of Water, Land and Natural Resources, Malaysia

Using participatory approaches and innovative technology to empower communities in securing their land

Ioana Bouvier, Stephen Brooks, Jeremy Green, Sarah Lowery, Caleb Stevens

US Agency for International Development, United States of America

Low-cost cadastre and valuation with lightweight technology

Brent Jones

Esri, United States of America

Digitization of the Land Registry within a Plural Legislative Framework: A case study of land registry innovations in Trinidad and Tobago

Amanda Fulchan-Lakhan², Kizzann Lee Sam², Miguel Angel Sanjines Mancilla¹

1: Land Administration Consultant, Bolivia, Plurinational State of; 2: Ministry of the Attorney General and Legal Affairs, Trinidad & Tobago

Taking matters into their own hands: why innovation in community land data collection matters

Amy Coughenour Betancourt, Frank Pichel

Cadasta Foundation, United States of America

The Resource Impact Dashboard (RID) An innovative global framework to measure the local impact of landed resources exploitation by industries

Fritz Brugger³, Selina Bezzola³, Joao Salavessa², Rey Pascal¹, Peter Hochet¹, Hermine Papazian¹

1: Institute for Social Research in Africa, Burkina Faso; 2: Universidade de Lurio, Mozambique; 3: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland

Agricultural growth corridors in Sub-Saharan Africa - New hope for territorial rural development or another non-starter?

Michael Bruentrup

German Development Institute (DIE), Germany

A framework for the development of responsible agropoles in Africa

Mohamed Coulibaly, Francine Picard

International Institute for Sustainable Development, Mali

Changing farm structure and rural transformation in Africa

Thomas Jayne

Michigan State University, United States of America

Land reform and child health in the Kyrgyz republic

Katrina Kosec¹, Olga Shemyakina²

1: International Food Policy Research Institute, United States of America; 2: Georgia Tech, United States of America

Gender gaps in forest tenure reforms in Peru: The impact of expectations on the household incomes of native communities

Rosa Luz Duran

Universidad de Lima, Peru

Land joint titling and its effects on household welfare in Vietnam

Helle Buchhave, Cuong Nguyen Viet, Hoa Hoa Thi Mong Pham, Giang Tam Nuyen, Kathrine Kelm

World Bank, United States of America

Gender differences in housing ownership in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Aphichoke Kotikula, Ruth Hill, Wameq Azfar Raza

World Bank, United States of America

Leveraging geospatial infrastructure to advance tenure security at scale

Jack Dangermond

ESRI, United States of America

NEPAD support to policy analysis capacity building in Africa

Rudo Makunike

NEPAD, South Africa

Policy relevant research: Building on AERC's PhD course to strengthen analytical capacity on land governance in Africa

Innocent Matshe

African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), Kenya

Harnessing the IT revolution for African land policies

Klaus Deininger

World Bank, United States of America

Expanding the frontier for research on land in Africa

Njuguna Ndung'u

African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), Kenya

Definition matters. Metropolitan areas and agglomeration economies in a large developing country

Maarten Bosker², Jane Park¹, Mark Roberts¹

1: World Bank, United States of America; 2: Erasmus University Rotterdam

Densification vs. expansion: recent findings for a global sample of cities

Shlomo Angel, Patrick Lamson-Hall

New York University, United States of America

Accurately monitoring urbanization at global scale – the world settlement footprint

Mattia Marconcini¹, Noel Gorelick², Annekatrin Metz-Marconcini¹, Thomas Esch¹

1: German Aerospace Center - DLR, Germany; 2: Google Inc., USA

Characterizing and managing urban expansion for higher equity, productivity, and environmental quality in the global south

Anjali Mahendra¹, Karen Seto²

1: World Resources Institute, WRI, United States of America; 2: Yale University, , United States of America

Precision geolocation at the service of least developed countries

Paul Chambon

Exagone, France

Fit for Purpose, scalable GNSS data collection

Sepp Josef Englberger

Leica Geosystems, Germany

Customized earth observation based information services

Matjaz Ivacic¹, Tatjana Veljanovski², Marcin Bilelecki¹, Liza Stancic², Andrej Beden¹, Ziga Kokalj²

1: GeoCodis Ltd., Slovenia; 2: ZRC SAZU, Slovenia

Deploying titling and customary land registration systems with a blockchain element

Trent Larson, Chris Chrysostom

Medici Land Governance, United States of America

Securing women’s property rights in utilization of commons: Lessons from the Kadenge community of Yala Swamp

Hope Otieno

National Legal Aid Service, Kenya

Customary land tenure systems and gendered land rights in Ghana’s northern region: Results from phase II gender equity and land tenure focus groups

Gina Rico Mendez, Kathleen Ragsdale, Kelly Lower, Mary Read-Wahidi

Mississippi State University, United States of America

Women’s tenure security on collective lands: Implications for measurement and policy

Ruth Meinzen-Dick¹, Rachael Knight², Cheryl Doss³

1: IFPRI, United States of America; 2: Namati; 3: University of Oxford

Exploring the role of gender equity in customary land administration to boost production

Pamela Bella Nyamutoka Katooro¹, Simon Peter Mwesigye², Rose Mugabe¹, Alex Muhumuza¹

1: International Institute of Rural Reconstruction, Uganda; 2: UN Habitat/GLTN, Uganda

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

Can group farms outperform individual family farms? empirical insights from India

Bina Agarwal

School of Environment, Education and Development, University of Manchester, UK

The effect of land sizes and land holdings on “transitions” in and out of income poverty in Uganda.

Margaret Rugadya¹, Paul Ntegeka², Herbert Kamusiime², Christine Kajumba², Eddie Nsamba-Gayiiya²

1: Ford Foundation, United States of America; 2: Associates Research Trust, Uganda

Land as the enabling asset on a value chain for rural development in Colombia's rural reform

Javier Perez-Burgos

Ministerio de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural, Colombia

Land tenure regularisation for sustainable urban and agriculture development in Rwanda

Thierry Ngoga

AGRA, Kenya

Experiments of urban land supply and development: India

Aparna Soni, Triveni Prasad Nanda

RICS School of Built Environment, India

Citizen-centric digital land and asset management in the greenfield city development: case study of Amaravati

Sreedhar Cherukury, Sidharth Ganesh, Sastry Siva Rama Krishna Jyosyula

Andhra Pradesh Capital Region Development Authority, India

Egovernance initiatives of slum rehabilitation authority, Mumbai

Shri Deepak Kapoor

Government of Maharashtra, India

Imagine and design the legal framework for the cities of the future: the example of Mauritian ‘smart cities’

Florian Lebourdais¹, Marie-Florence Zampiero-Bouquemont²

1: Ordre des Géomètres-experts, France; 2: Conseil Supérieur du Notariat, France

Open Government - Building trust and strengthening the delivery of valuation services

Ruud M. Kathmann¹, Terence Fahey², Ben P.P. Bervoets¹, Marco Kuijper¹

1: Council for Real Estate Assessment, The Netherlands; 2: Valuation Office, Ireland

Customer relations and communication in land administration

David Laurence Magor

Institute of Revenues Rating and Valuation, United Kingdom

Property Taxation in India: Issues impacting revenue performance and suggestions for reform

Rajul Awasthi

World Bank, 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

Rural land use planning, the integration of shared resources mapping for improved communal tenure security: experiences from Zambia

Christopher Mulenga¹, Adam Ngoma², Jason Sakala²

1: University of Lusaka, Zambia; 2: Chipata 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

1: University of Florida (UF), United States of America; 2: University of Florida (UF), United States of America; 3: Center 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

1: Independant consultant, France; 2: World 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

Land administration data integration – modern concept

Igor Popiv, Carol Roffer, Maksym Kalyta, Sergiy Lizenko

Innola Solutions, Inc., United States of America

Land Administration Models - A central register and land information system containing as much information as possible about a property

Victoria Abbott, Joy Bailey

HM Land Registry, United Kingdom

An applicative approach for cadastral processes implementation in multi-dimensional land management systems

Ruba Jaljolie, Yerach Doytsher, Sagi Dalyot

Mapping and Geo-Information Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

The impact of the agricultural land management information system on the work of local self-government units and directorate for agricultural land

Katja Grbic

GIZ- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit, United States of America

How and why large-scale agricultural investments induce diverse trajectories of regional development in Kenya, Madagascar and Mozambique

Markus Giger¹, Christoph Oberlack¹, Ward Anseeuw², Camilla Adele³, Magalie Bourblanc⁴, Perrine Burnod⁵, Sandra Eckert¹, Wega Fitawek³, Eve Fouilleux⁶, Sheryl L Hendriks³, Boniface Kiteme⁷, Sara Mercandalli⁴, Aurelien Reys⁶, Maya da Silva³, Michael Van Der Laan³, Julie Zaehringer¹, Peter Messerli¹

1: Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), University of Bern, Switzerland; 2: CIRAD / International Land Coalition; 3: University of Pretoria; 4: CIRAD / University of Pretoria; 5: CIRAD / Observatoire du foncier Madagascar; 6: CIRAD, France; 7: CETRAD, Kenya

Investing in land versus land use: analyzing investment decisions by transnational forestry and agriculture companies

Dilini Abeygunawardane¹, Patrick Meyfroidt^1,2, Angela Kronenburg García¹

1: Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium; 2: F.R.S.- FNRS, Brussels, Belgium

Large-scale land aggregation for transforming and scaling up African agriculture

Maria Marealle

African Development Bank, Côte d'Ivoire

Predicting deprivations in housing and basic services from space in slums of Dhaka

Amit Patel¹, Christian Borja-Vega², Luisa Mimmi³, Tomas Soukup⁴, Jan Kolomaznik⁴, Marcia Mundt¹, Hyunjung Lee¹, Tanushree Bhan¹

1: University of Massachusetts Boston, United States of America; 2: World Bank, United States of America; 3: Inter American Development Bank, United States of America; 4: GiSAT, Czech Republic

International collaboration: capturing the impact of emerging trends

Bilan Stribling

Columbia University, United States of America

The effects of agricultural income on Internally Displaced Persons: Evidence from Colombia

Paola Palacios, Miguel Angel Perez-Uribe

Universidad Icesi, Colombia

The consequences of increasing block tariffs, magnitude and distribution of electricity and water subsidies for households in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Helena Cardenas, Dale Whittington

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States of America

Introductory remarks

Godfrey Bahiigwa

African Union Commission, Ethiopia

Setting the scene

Michael Roth

Consultant, United States of America

Discussant

Joan Kagwanja

UNECA, Ethiopia

Discussant

David Loue

Agence Foncière Rurale, AFOR, Côte d'Ivoire

Discussant

Danielle Haingonavalona

Ministry in charge of Land Affairs, Madagascar

Discussant

Tatjana Cenova-Mitrevska

Agency for Real Estate Cadastre, Macedonia

Discussant

Emmanuel Nkurunziza

Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD), Kenya

Closing remarks

Jorge Munoz

World Bank, United States of America

Closing remarks

Fritz Jung

Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany

Interoperability model for land registries (IMOLA) project in the European Union

Mihai Taus

Romanian Land Registry Association, Romania

The evolution of the Chilean land registry system: from the 19th century to the implementation of new technologies

Jose Luis Alberto Maldonado Croquevielle, Claudia Bahamondes Oyarzún

Conservador de Bienes Raíces de Santiago, Chile

Registry of True Owners according to the European Directives to fight money laundering

Alfonso Candau

IPRA-CINDER, Spain

The interconnection and interoperability between Business Registries in Europe

Maria Jose Magalhaes

Registrars of Portugal, Portugal

The interconnection between Land Registries in a Federal State such as Mexico

Maria Elena Garcia Flores

CINDER, Mexico

Transformative initiatives concerning the delivery of land title registration services in British Columbia

Carlos MacDonald

Director of Land Titles, British Columbia, Canada

Policy person’s guide to navigating past the map

Ronald Roth

Hexagon Geosystems, United States of America

The future role of official geospatial reference data in a fully digital environment

Peter Creuzer, Marcel Ziems

State Agency for Geoinformation and State Survey Lower Saxony (LGLN), Germany

Legal and policy frameworks for geospatial information management

Kevin Pomfret

Centre for Spatial Law and Policy, United States of America

Geospatial Data points the way to integrating government for sustainable development

John David Kedar, Kimberley Worthy, James Darvill

Ordnance Survey, United Kingdom

Land and womanhood- ethnography on propertied women in Bengal

Amrita Mondal

Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, Germany

"Innovations to protect women’s customary land rights: Practical experiences from Sierra Leone."

Samuel Mabikke¹, Rexford Ahene², MariaPaola Rizzo³, Francesca Romano³

1: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Sierra Leone; 2: Lafayette University, USA; 3: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Italy

The farmer and her husband: legal innovations for women in contract farming

Sarah Brewin, Carin Smaller, Francine Picard, Sophia Murphy

IISD, Switzerland

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

1: University of California, San Diego, United States of America; 2: World Bank; 3: Dartmouth 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

1: London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom; 2: Latin American Center for Rural Development (RIMISP); 3: Food and Agricutural Organization of the United Nations (FAO); 4: The National Statistics Institute of Chile (INE)

From municipal investments to functional subregions: new territorial planning units in Colombia

Natalie Gomez Arteaga

DNP, Colombia

Land policy implementation in Kenya: achievements, challenges and lessons ten years later

Ibrahim Mwathane

Land Development and Governance Institute (LDGI), Kenya

Smallholder settlement schemes in Kenya:
 A retrospective and prospective analysis of Trans-Nzoia county

Fibian Lukalo, David Kipchoge

National Land Commission, Kenya

By the communities for the communities: A holistic approach to community-based natural resource governance:

Husna Mbarak

UNFAO, Kenya

The political economy of Kenya land policy review

Odenda Lumumba

KENYA LAND ALLIANCE, Kenya

Anatomy of Density

Shlomo Angel, Patrick Lamson-Hall

New York University, United States of America

Measuring urban economic density

Sebastian Kriticos

The London School of Economics, United Kingdom

Master scheme for the simplification and digital transformation of urban land management

Aurélie Milledrogues¹, Nassirou Mbow², Benoit Kiene¹, Loic Daniel¹

1: IGN FI, France; 2: Ministry of Construction, Housing and Urban Planning (MCLAU), Ivory Coast

The National Urban Policy as a Framework for managing Urban expansion and land use change in Malawi

Dr Janet L. Banda, Mercy Betty Dube, Devie Chilonga

Mnistry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Malawi

The role of transferrable development rights in emerging economies

Richard Grover¹, Anna Corsi², Ahmet Kindap³

1: Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom; 2: World Bank, Washington DC, USA; 3: World Bank, Ankara, Turkey

Is there a role of Land Value Capture Instruments for financing infrastructure investments in a messy urban growth scenario?

Cynthia Goytia

Harvard University and Torcuato Di Tella University, Argentine Republic

Unlocking the potential of urban land in Kenya

Abdu Muwonge¹, Peter Mwangi²

1: World Bank, Kenya; 2: Walker Kontos Advocates, Kenya

Institutional arrangements as a catalyzing instrument for land value capture processes in public transportation projects

Maria Juliana Rojas Cortes

JFP & Asociados, Colombia

The untold story of Taiwan's land-based financing program - land readjustment or land grabbing?

Shih-Jung Hsu¹, Grace Li-Min Liao²

1: National Chengchi University, Taiwan; 2: China University of Technology, Taiwan

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

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

The importance of public private partnership in cadastre: Turkish experience

Orhan Ercan¹, Mert Yasin Oz²

1: FIG, Turkey; 2: Tapu ve Kadastro Genel Müdürlüğü, Turkey

A review of public-private partnerships in land administration

Mohsen Kalantari¹, Daniel Paez¹, Aanchal Anand², Tony Burns³, Kate Rickersey³

1: The University of Melbourne, Australia; 2: World Bank, United States of America; 3: Land Equity International, Australia

PPP in land administration - why now and what are the risks and benefits?

Fredrik Zetterquist, Dave Stow

Ordnance Survey, UK

Exploring PPP opportunities for improved Land Administration Reforms, emerging lessons from the Ghanaian Case

Eric Yeboah

Office of the President, Ghana

From client satisfaction to happiness: the front-office and back-office innovative concession models for fostering land registration in Dubai

Daniel Paez

Universidad de los Andes, Colombia

Winners or losers: a gender analysis of the economic and social impact of corporate large-scale land acquisition on rural women in Cameroon

Lotsmart Fonjong¹, Lucy Fonjong², Hellen Kasilla³

1: University of Buea, Cameroon; 2: University of Yaounde I, Cameroon; 3: Islamic Relief Worldwide, Kenya

New research about gender, land and mining in Mongolia: deepening understanding of coping strategies in pastoral communities

Elizabeth Daley¹, Yansanjav Narangerel², Zoe Driscoll¹

1: Mokoro Ltd, United Kingdom; 2: People Centered Conservation (PCC), Mongolia

Strengthening women's voices in land governance in the context of commercial pressures on land

Philippine Sutz¹, Amaelle Seigneret¹, Mamadou Fall²

1: IIED, United Kingdom; 2: IED Afrique, Senegal

Identifying best practices for benefit sharing at the jurisdictional scale in relation to emission reduction programs

Lauren Cooper¹, Dietmar Stoian², Emily Huff¹, Kezia Salosso³

1: Michigan State University, United States of America; 2: Bioversity International / World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), France; 3: University of Papua, Indonesia

How Does Scarcity Affect Extraction of Resources? A study about land use as a common-pool resource dilemma using survey and field-experimental data collected in northern Namibia

Nils Christian Hoenow, Michael Kirk

University of Marburg, Germany

Impact of land certification on cash crop expansion in Southwest China

Haowen Zhuang, Shaoze Jin, Hermann Waibel

Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany

Forest carbon supply in Nepal: Evidence from a choice experiment

Randall Bluffstone¹, Eswaran Somanathan², Sahan Dissanayake¹, Harisharan Luintel³, Naya Paudel⁴

1: Portland State University, United States of America; 2: Indian Statistical Institute, India; 3: Smart Start Evaluation and Research, United States of America; 4: Forest Action, Nepal

Colombia: The private sector’s roles in land tenure formalization in post-conflict areas

Javier Perez-Burgos

Ministerio de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural, Colombia

Modernizing land information systems in Panama

Francisco Artola

Ministry of the presidency, Panama

Honduras: improving registry and cadastral service delivery through public and private outsourcing

Roman Alvarez

Instituto de la Propiedad, Honduras

Contracting and direct implementation in systematic land formalization. 25 years of experience in Peru.

Victor Endo

Global Land Alliance, Peru

Using land readjustment and FAR bonuses to create high-density development in fringe areas of fast growing cities

Jay Mittal

Auburn University, Auburn, AL, United States of America

Surrender and re-alienation of land in Johor, Malaysia: a planning tool and mechanism for sustainable property development

Rohani Azmi¹, Suliman Suhailizan², Hasbullah Mohd Halim², Ariff Amirul Haffiz², Sahid Mohd Shahrizan³, Suratman Robiah⁴, Samsudin Salfarina⁴

1: Johor State Secretary, Malaysia; 2: Johor Land and Mines Department, Malaysia; 3: Johor State Secretary Incorporation, Malaysia; 4: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia

Land Assembly through Land Pooling Scheme in Amaravati, Challenges and land value capture for greenfield city development

Ramamanohara Rao Vippagunta, Sastry Siva Rama Krishna Jyosyula, Sreedhar Cherukury, Sidharth Ganesh

Andhra Pradesh Capital Region Development Authority (APCRDA), India

Community-based feedback to improve land pooling for planned urbanization: a case study of Thimphu, Bhutan

Katie Farrin

Asian Development Bank, Philippines

Digital street: Exploring the future of land registration through new technologies

John Abbott, Lauren Tombs, Paul Batterham

HM Land Registry, United Kingdom

Preventive administration of justice – an economic catalyzer for the future?! – an analysis of the economic relevance of reliable and transparent public registers –

Rolf Knieper

Bundesnotarkammer/UINL

How to introduce a complete new land registry system in a rapid changing world

Jacob Vos

Dutch Cadastre, Land Registry and Mapping Agency (Kadaster), Netherlands

Land Administration and the role of a Land Registrar Network

Mark Reichardt, Trevor Taylor

The Open Geospatial Consortium, United States of America

Strengthening traditional institutions of nomadic herders for sustainable management of public rangelands in Mongolia

Enkhamgalan Tseelei¹, Gankhuyag Nyam-ochir¹, Erdenechuluun Tumur²

1: National Federation of Pasture user groups of herders, Mongolia; 2: National University of Agriculture, Mongolia

Landscape approach for addressing land use conflicts in pastoral areas: the case of Tanzania

Stephen Nindi¹, Victor Mwita², Deus Kalenzi³, Isaack Luambano³, Fiona Flintan³

1: Ministry of Lands, Housing and Human Settlements Development, Tanzania; 2: Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries; 3: International Livestock Research Institute

Emerging forms of land market participation and implications on pastoralists’ livelihoods in Kenya

Linet Rutoh¹, David Jakinda Otieno¹, Willis-Oluoch Kosura¹, Stephen Mureithi¹, Gert Nyberg²

1: The University of Nairobi, Kenya; 2: Department of Forest Ecology and Management, SLU, Sweden

Securing land rights for marginalized communities - Experience from working with Pastoralist, hunter and gathers in Tanzania

Naomi Shadrack Mwaiponya, Amina Ndiko

OXFAM, Tanzania

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

1: University of Washington, United States of America; 2: University of Pennsylvania, United States of America; 3: Independent, Brazil

Backyarding: theory and evidence for South Africa

Jan Brueckner¹, Claus Rabe², Harris Selod³

1: University of California, Irvine, United States of America; 2: Independent consultant, South Africa; 3: World Bank, United States of America

Impact Evaluations of Informal Settlements Upgrading Interventions: Evidence assessment and new topics for research.

Cynthia Goytia¹, Guadalupe Dorna²

1: Harvard University and Torcuato Di Tella University, Argentina; 2: Torcuato Di Tella University, Argentina

Measuring housing deprivations in India: an alternative approach to slum enumeration

Amit Patel¹, Phoram Shah²

1: University of Massachusetts Boston, United States of America; 2: The World Bank Group, United States of America

Prindex: putting global tenure insecurity into perspective with results from 33 country surveys in 2018

Malcolm Childress¹, David Spievack¹, Anna Locke², Joseph Feyertag², Soumya Chattopadhyay²

1: Global Land Alliance, United States of America; 2: ODI, United Kingdom

Perceived tenure insecurity among renters and its implications for ongoing urbanisation

Anna Locke¹, Joseph Feyertag¹, Malcolm Childress², David Spievack², Soumya Chattopadhyay¹

1: Overseas Development Institute, United Kingdom; 2: Global Land Alliance, United States of America

Indigenous data sovereignty

Pyrou Chung

EWMI-Open Development Initiative, Myanmar

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

Grislain Quentin¹, Anseeuw Ward², Burnod Perrine³, Bourgoin Jérémy⁴, Giger Markus⁵, Hershaw Eva⁶, Ka Ibrahima⁷

1: International Land Coalition, Senegal; 2: CIRAD / International Land Coalition, Italy; 3: CIRAD / Observatoire du foncier à Madagascar; 4: CIRAD / ISRA-BAME; 5: Centre for Development and Environment; 6: International Land Coalition, Italy; 7: IPAR, Senegal

Urban planning orientation tools implementation in Bamako District

Founemakan Sissoko

University of Law and Political Science of Bamako, Mali

Urban planning and land shortcoming in Morocco: Aspects of injustice and perspectives

Abdelwahed El Idrissi¹, Ahmed Maliki², Moha El Ayachi³, Khalid Yousfi⁴

1: National Institute of Urban Planning, Morocco; 2: University Qadi ayyad, Morocco; 3: Institute of agronomy and Veterinary Medicine, Morocco; 4: National Council of Licensed Surveyors, Morocco

Urban planning and land issues in the city of Antananarivo

Nancy Rambao Andrianarisoa Sp. Andriamisandratsoa

Ministry of Regional Development, Building, Housing and Public Works - Madagascar

Assessing suitability and acceptability of development plans and town planning schemes in small and medium town: a case of Gujarat

Priyanshu Sharma

CEPT University, India

Addressing fuzzy boundaries in community delimitations for systematic cadaster in Mozambique

João Carrilho¹, Marisa Balas², Mario Marques³, Zileque Macate³, Christiaan Lemmen⁴

1: National Directorate of Lands, Mozambique; 2: EXI, Lda, Mozambique; 3: Verde Azul, Lda, Mozambique; 4: Kadaster, The Netherlands

Moving from debate to implementation: Opportunities for Community Land Registration in Kenya

Brian Gideon Washe Kazungu, Justus Wabwire Ogollah Wambayi

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Kenya

“Grazing agreements: negotiated resource access and conflict mediation at the private property-common property nexus in Kenya’s rangelands”

Christopher Wade

Independent Consultant, United States of America

Social and institutional innovation in land reform: local land charters in Burkina

Hubert Marie Gerard Ouedraogo

DID international, Burkina Faso

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

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

Research on access and use of geographic information in Moldova

Maria Ovdii¹, Elena Busch²

1: Agency for Land Relations and Cadastre of Moldova, Moldova; 2: Kartverket - Norwegian Mapping Authority, Norway

UN Integrated Geospatial Information Framework towards achieving the 2030 Agenda – from global to national. Guyana experience.

Rumyana Tonchovska¹, Trevor Benn², Andrew Coote³

1: UNFAO, Italy; 2: Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission, Guyana; 3: ConsultingWhere Ltd., United Kingdom

Integration of Crowdsourcing and digital platform of National Spatial Data Infrastructure for efficient decision-making

Borko Draskovic, Darko Vucetic

Republic Geodetic Authority, Serbia

Additional considerations for the successful implementation of a CORS GNSS Network in Developing Countries

Nicolas De Moegen

Leica Geosystems, France

Land rights protection in the pulp and paper production system

Carolina Torres Graca, Decio Zylbersztajn

University of São Paulo, Brazil

Land acquisition in Malaysia: Policy context and praxis for oil and gas hub project in Eastern Johor.

Rohani Azmi¹, Sahid Mohd Shahrizan², Hasbullah Mohd Halim³, Suliman Suhailizan³, Ariff Amirul Haffiz³, Samsudin Salfarina⁴, Suratman Robiah⁴

1: Johor State Secretary, Malaysia; 2: Johor State Secretary Incorporation, Malaysia; 3: Johor Land and Mines Department, Malaysia; 4: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia

LSLA in Mozambique: impact on rural and urban communities

R. Wanjiku Kiambo, 1Alda Salamao, Issufo Tankar, Samanta Remane

Centro Terra Viva, Mozambique

Beyond climate change: how tenure reform aggravated grassland degradation in north china

Xingyue Zhang¹, Shuhao Tan²

1: University of California Davis, United States of America; 2: Renmin University of China, China

Unrecognized opportunities for pastoral tenure: Re-framing variability, mobility, and flexibility

Kramer Gillin

University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States of America

An exploratory sequential mixed methods approach to understanding the correlation of land use regulations on residential property values in Windhoek, Namibia

Sam M. Mwando

Namibia University of Science and Technology, Namibia

Do land rental markets contribute to efficient land allocations? Ukrainian experience

Vasyl Kvartiuk, Eduard Bukin, Thomas Herzfeld

Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), Germany

Implications of land market imperfections on policy design

Dan Tavrov, Oleg Nivievskyi

Kyiv School of Economics, Ukraine

Land market institutions and agricultural productivity in Ukraine

Roman Koshovnyk, Oleg Nivievskyi

Kyiv School of Economics, Ukraine

Opportunities and challenges of planning to provide tenure security to existing dwellers and ensure effective service delivery in the course of urban expansion

Peris Korir

Ministry of Land and Physical Planning, Kenya

Applying Simplified planning to facilitate title issuance in Lusaka

Muchimba Muvombo, Alex Mwansa

City Hall Lusaka, Zambia

Scope for simplifying planning procedures in Zimbabwe

Hosiah Chisango

Harare City Municipality, Zimbabwe

Addressing physical urban planning to speed up tenure regularization

Emmanuel Nkurunziza

Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD), Kenya

Modern technology in land administration - a call for governance and structuring data in view of privatising land administration processes

Jacob Vos

Dutch Cadastre, Land Registry and Mapping Agency (Kadaster), Netherlands, The

The Emirates` (legal) framework and governance model for using emerging technologies in Land Administration

Khalifa Alsuwaidi, Mureed Mustapha

Dubai Land Department, United Arab Emirates

Digital assets & data to be published on a blockchain / What should we do (or not do) with the land administration data?

Jona Van Leeuwen

Union Internationale des Huissiers de Justice (UIHJ), Netherlands

The Irish challenges to be prepared for future Land Registry

Liz Pope

Property Registration Authority, Ireland

British Columbia's land titles: private, public or somewhere in-between?

Connie Fair, Carlos MacDonald

Land Title & Survey Authority of British Columbia, Canada

Blockchain property titles and land use recording – is it only about trust, or is there space for compliance and enforcement?

Rebecca Leshinsky

RMIT University, Australia

Smart contracts and land administration: a new framework for property conveyance

Todd Miller¹, Al-Karim Kara², Rohan Bennett³

1: ChromaWay, Sweden and United States of America; 2: Land Title and Survey Authority, British Columbia, Canada; 3: Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia

Blockchain for Land Administration: Smart Land Registries - a tangible model seeking value for all parties

David Stow¹, Peter Shaw², Richard Nash³

1: Ordnance Survey, United Kingdom; 2: Trimble Land Administration Solutions Group, USA; 3: IBM, United Kingdom

Catalyzing innovation: Dubai real estate blockchain

Khalifa Alsuwaidi

Dubai Land Department, United Arab Emirates

An example of the use of the Blockchain by the French Notariat: enforceable copies

Lionel Galliez

International Union of Notaries (UINL), France

Evaluation results of a program aimed at reducing property grabbing among widows in Uganda

Andee Parks, Shawn Kohl, Jessica Kyle, Claire Wilkinson

International Justice Mission

Women's tenure rights across the rural urban continuum: implications for a gender responsive urban land reform in Namibia.

Prisca Mandimika¹, Thomas Haenert²

1: Ministry of Land Reform, Namibia; 2: GIZ Office Namibia

Community land titling: a contextual analysis of women’s land rights in Kenya

Erin Kitchell, Rachael Knight, Jaron Vogelsang

Namati, United States of America

Innovations to secure women's land rights and build resilience

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

1: Huairou Commission, United States of America; 2: UCOBAC, Uganda

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

1: University of Rwanda, Rwanda; 2: iLand Consulting; 3: RLMUA; 4: DFID

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

Zambia’s Land Policy formulation pitfalls-points of divergence

Emmanuel Tembo, Veronica Mwiche

Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources, Zambia

Demarcation of traditional land management areas in Malawi

Misheck Coco Longwe, Dr Janet L. Banda, Julias B. Chisi, Devie B. Chilonga

Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Malawi

The Namibian 2nd National Land Conference has passed, how the resolutions taken will influence the politics and reluctance to register tenure rights in the Kavango West and Kavango East regions.

Petrus Canisius Nangolo

Ministry of Land Reform, Namibia

Land rights as an imperative for sustainable land and resources management in Kenya.

Leonard Omullo

National Land Commission, Kenya

Spatial planning, urban expansion and land use conversion: a study on urban form of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Thai Son Pham, Truc Quynh Doan

Vietnamese-German University, Vietnam

Exploring options for leaseholds in the Mukuru special planning area

Smith Ouma¹, Jane Weru², Emily Kinama³

1: Cardiff University, United Kingdom; 2: Akiba Mashinani Trust, Kenya; 3: Katiba Institute, Nairobi

Aligning land use policies to community vision in regulating land beyond urban: an initiative in Odisha, India

Felix Knopf, Sumana Chatterjee

Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, India

Spatial Planning as an instrument for the sustainability of investment and efficient provision of services - Comayagua Case

Roman Alvarez¹, Enrique Pantoja², Carlos Miranda³, Alain Paz¹

1: Property Institute, Honduras; 2: World Bank, United Stated; 3: Comayagua, Honduras

Understanding multiplicity of urban governance and planning regulations for a metropolitan region with focus on land and private development – Case study NCR – Delhi, India

Sneha Thusoo, Tetsuo Kidokoro, Fumihiko Seta

University of Tokyo, Japan

Wrong-Headed policies in the name of the poor: Case of Mumbai’s Cessed-Buildings

Abhay Pethe, Rashmi Sharma

Mumbai School of Economics and Public Policy (MSE-PP), University of Mumbai, India

Community resource mobilization for informal settlements regularization: impact of private community partnership in Tanzania

Edward Kinabo, Renny Chiwa, Pamela Maro, Alloyce Nyaisa

Human Settlements Action (HUSEA) Company Limited, Tanzania

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

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

1: Imazon, Brazil; 2: University 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

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

Land registration innovation and decentralised administrative reform: Success stories from the State of Johor, Malaysia

Rohani Azmi¹, Ariff Amirul Haffiz², Hasbullah Mohd Halim², Suliman Suhailizan², Sahid Mohd Shahrizan³, Samsudin Salfarina⁴, Suratman Robiah⁴

1: Johor State Secretary, Malaysia; 2: Johor Land and Mines Department, Malaysia; 3: Johor State Secretary Incorporation, Malaysia; 4: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia

Land registration authority's linkages through the land titling computerization project

Robert Nomar Leyretana

Land Registration Authority, Philippines

A step to grow collateral markets through one window

Faiz Faiz-ul-Hassan, Saqib Khalid Rehman, Usman Ahmad

Punjab Land Records Authority, Government of Punjab, Pakistan

Interoperability and land administration in Nepal

Ram Datta Bhatta, Gokarnamani Duwadee

Department of Land Management & Archive, Nepal

Registering deeds in Delhi: challenges, innovations and prospects

Deepika Jha, Amlanjyoti Goswami

Indian Institute for Human Settlements, India

Doomed to fail? Why some land-based investment projects fail and others succeed

Kerstin Nolte

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

Annette Schramm

University of Tuebingen, Germany

When good innovations go bad

Moe Odele

Stratigos Consulting, United Arab Emirates

Governance challenges in sub-Saharan Africa: the case of Land Guards and land protection in Ghana

David Kwasi Bansah

Ghana Revenue Authority, Ghana

Assessing institutional governance in balancing food production and environmental protection in urban wetlands of Kigali/Rwanda and tropical Kilombero floodplain/Tanzania. A comparative analysis

John Kalisa

World Bank Group, Rwanda

Growth effects of banking development on agriculture and industrial GDP in Sub-Saharan Africa

Ayine Nigo

University of Westminster, United Kingdom

Land related human rights in Pakistan: improving land tenancy as a pathway for agriculture development and food security

Marianna Bicchieri

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Thailand

Mapping for Peace and Prosperity: Applying participatory mapping in conflict-affected settings.

David Betge¹, Anne Girardin², Madaleine Weber²

1: ZOA, Netherlands, The; 2: Cadasta Foundation, United States

Protecting rights to clan-based land in Acholi, Northern Uganda: Follow-up report on a research project of the Joint Acholi Sub-Region Leaders’ Forum (JASLF) and Trόcaire

Ronald Atkinson

University of South Carolina, United States of America

Flexible land information system as driver for change, peace and development: The case of post conflict DRC

Solomon Njogu¹, Lobo Ngumba², Serge Vutegha², Danilo Antonio³, John Gitau³, Christol Paluku³, Oumar Sylla³

1: Private Consultant, Kenya; 2: Christian Bilingual University Democratic Republic of Congo; 3: Global Land Tool Network/ UN Habitat, Kenya

Putting forest communities on the map: Participatory land-use planning in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Joseph George Eisen, Patrick Epie, Ines Ayari, Massimiliano Rossi

Rainforest Foundation UK, United Kingdom

Expanding urban land access and housing in Ethiopia

H.E. Jantirar Abay Yigzaw

Ministry of Urban Development and Construction, Ethiopia

Land as a key enabler for delivering affordable housing in Kenya

Charles Mwaura

Ministry of Transport, Infrastructure, Housing and Urban Development

‘Chile Propietario’ program to regularize informal properties

Alejandra Bravo Hidalgo

Ministry of National Assets, Chile

Setting the scene

Wael Zakout

World Bank, United States of America

Discussant

Ammar Alhamadi

Dubai Land Department, United Arab Emirates

Discussant

Muhamad Alrajhi

Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs, Saudi Arabia

Discussant

Georges Maarrawi

Ministry of Finance, Lebanon (Lebanese Republic)

Discussant

Mohamedsalih Baher

darfur land commission, Sudan

Discussant

Moha El-ayachi

Institute of Agronomy and Veterinary Medicine, NELGA NA Coordinator, Morocco

Discussant

Musa Shkarnh

Land & Water Settlement Commission, Palestinian Territories

Discussant

Fritz Jung

Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany

Discussant

Chris Penrose Buckley

DFID, United Kingdom

Conclusions and next steps

Wael Zakout¹, Oumar Sylla²

1: World Bank, United States of America; 2: UN Habitat, Kenya

Revisiting the farm size-productivity relationship based on a relatively wide range of farm sizes: evidence from Kenya

Milu Muyanga, Thomas S. Jayne

Michigan State University, United States of America

Does mechanization reverse the farm-size productivity relationship? Evidence from Ethiopia

Daniel Ayalew Ali, Klaus Deininger, Sinafikeh Gemessa

World Bank, United States of America

Can large farm spillovers foster smallholders structural transformation? Evidence from Zambia

Daniel Ali¹, Antony Chapoto², Klaus Deininger¹, Yuanyuan Yi¹

1: World Bank, United States of America; 2: IAPRI

Does sample truncation affect assess the inverse farm size-productivity relationship? Evidence from Malawi

Klaus Deininger¹, Fang Xia², Daniel Ali¹

1: World Bank, United States of America; 2: University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, China, People's Republic of

Large-scale land acquisition monitoring with high resolution imagery retrieval and profiling in the ASAP platform

Felix Rembold¹, Guido Lemoine¹, Matthias Hack², Christof Althoff³, Patrick Griffiths⁴, Ferdinando Urbano¹, Gabor Csak¹

1: Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Italy; 2: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit, Germany; 3: GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Germany; 4: European Space Agency, United States of America

Geospatial big data platform for water for all in Indus basin

Ather Ashraf¹, Muhammad Abid Bodla², Ijaz-ul-Hassan Kashif³, Ch. Muhammad Ali Nazir⁴

1: University of Punjab, Pakistan; 2: Member Water, Planning and Development Department, Govt of Punjab, India; 3: Executive Engineer, Irrigation department, Govt of Punjab, India; 4: Assistant Chief (Coordination), Planning and Development Department, Govt of Punjab, India

Realtime digital soil fertility data for fact-based fertilizer selection by smallholder farmers

Christy van Beek^1,2, Sally Musungu², Rob Beens¹, Angelique van Helvoort¹

1: AgroCares, Netherlands, The; 2: SoilCares Foundation, The Netherlands

New ways to use remote sensing based phenology and machine learning for mapping irrigated and rainfed agriculture in Africa

Tobias Landmann¹, Natalie Cornish¹, David Eidmann², Jonas Franke¹, Stefan Siebert³

1: Remote Sensing Solutions GmbH, Germany; 2: Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany; 3: University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany

Use of Remote sensing technology in small holder supply chains in Asia

Suparna Jain, Harsh Vivek, Rajpal Singh, Ernest Bethe, Bas Rozemuller, Rahmad Syakib, Krishna Kumar

International Finance Corporation, India

Implementing Uganda's gender strategy on land through issuance of certificates of customary ownership : A case of Kabale and Adjumani districts in Uganda

Naome Justine Kabanda¹, Henry Harrison Irumba¹, Sylla Oumar², Simon Peter Mwesigye², Danilo Antonio²

1: Ministry of Lands, Housing, and Urban Development, Uganda; 2: UN-Habitat/Global Land Tool Network, Kenya

When joint ownership is not sufficient to ensure joint registration: Lessons from Cabo Verde

Elisa Scalise¹, Michelle Adato², Naomi Cassirer²

1: Resource Equity, United States of America; 2: Millennium Challenge Corporation, United States of America

Inclusive and gender-aware participatory land registration in Indonesia

Simon Ulvund¹, Eva Maria Unger², Chrit Lemmen², Christelle van den Berg², Tjeerd Wits¹, Resti Diah Utami¹, Hanhan Lukman³

1: Meridia, The Netherlands; 2: Kadaster International, The Netherlands; 3: ATR / BPN, Indonesia

Promoting women’s right to land inheritance through agriculture incentivization

Rene Claude Niyonkuru¹, Louis Marie Nindorera²

1: Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium; 2: Independent Consultant

Storytelling: a powerful strategy to increase women’s access to land/property rights in Uganda and beyond

Judith Hermanson¹, Natalie R Gill¹, Sylvia Luchini¹, Jessica A Kaahwa²

1: IHC Global, United States of America; 2: Makerere University

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

Valuer general of South Africa; rights, responsibilities, and land reform

Ruel Williamson

Greenfield Advisors, Inc., United States of America

The implications of incomplete restorative justice in South African land restitution: lessons from the Moletele case.

Nerhene Davis

University of Pretoria, South Africa

Towards addressing the new land reform policy paradigm in South Africa

Phineas Khazamula Chauke

University of Venda, South Africa

Drawing insights from a global comparison of legal safeguards for expropriation

Nina Paustian, Daniela Monika Behr, Rumbidzai Maweni, Kristina Nedelkova

World Bank, United States of America

Acquiring land compulsorily at any cost? Policy recommendations for improved resettlement outcomes.

Ellen De Keyser¹, Eddie Nsamba-Gayiiya²

1: Ellen De Keyser, Belgium; 2: Consultant Surveyors and Planners, Uganda

Assessment of community involvement and compensation money utilization in Ethiopia: Case studies from Bahir Dar and DebreMarkosPeri-urban areas

Sayeh Agegnehu¹, Reinfried Mansberger²

1: Debre Markos University, Ethiopia; 2: University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Austria

The question of compensation in the large-scale land acquisition and redistribution in Southern Africa

Justice Mayor Wadyajena

Parliament of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe

Social mix and social cohesion using housing mix: a review of the Chilean and British experience

Claudia Murray¹, Gavin Parker¹, Francisco Sabatini², Luis Vergara²

1: University of Reading, United Kingdom; 2: Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

Affordable housing: a land suitability perspective

Gayatri Singh¹, Tony Hartanto Widjarnarso¹, Jose Eduardo Diaz-Azcunaga², Ricardo Ochoa-Sosa², Eduardo Perez-Denicia²

1: World Bank, Indonesia; 2: CAPSUS, Mexico

Harnessing the real estate market for equitable affordable housing provision through land value capture: Insights from San Francisco City, California

Bernard Nzau, Claudia Trillo

University of Salford, United Kingdom

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

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

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

CADASTRE and access to land

Hugo Daniel Gatica¹, Hugo Daniel Gatica², Julián Cortina Fraysse³

1: Cons Fed del Catastro, Argentine Republic; 2: Dirección Provincial de Catastro e Información Territorial; 3: Dirección de Catastro Municipio Vista Alegre

Integrating data for land tenure regularization in the State of Piauí, Brazil

Hérbert Buenos Aires de Carvalho¹, Regina Lourdes Carvalho de Araújo¹, Camille Bourguignon², Simone Raquel Mendes de Oliveira¹

1: Piauí State Land Institute; 2: The World Bank

Types of land tenure in Brazil: the first estimate from available geo-referenced information

Bastiaan Philip Reydon¹, Gerd Sparovek², Luis Fernando Guedes Pinto³, Vinicius Faria³, Gabriel Siqueira¹, Javier Godar⁴, Toby Gardner³, Rafael Georges⁵, Gustavo Ferroni⁵, Caio Hamamura⁶, Felipe Cerignoni³, Tomás Carvalho³, Claudia Azevedo-Ramos⁷, Ane Alencar⁷, Vivian Ribeiro⁷

1: UNICAMP, Brazil; 2: GeoLab- Esalq – USP; 3: Imaflora; 4: SEI; 5: Oxfam; 6: IFSP; 7: IPAM

A new approach for the establishment of a regional multipurpose cadastre in La Mojana, Colombia – how to overcome large-scale cadastral operations challenges through technological and methodological innovations

Stéphane Georges Guy Palicot¹, Loic Daniel²

1: GEOFIT, France; 2: IGNFI France

Standardization and integration of the electronic real estate registry system of Brazil (SREI): the national operator of SREI (ONR).

Ivan Jacopetti do Lago

IRIB, Brazil

Emerging Practice from the Field: Private sector action on land rights in the upstream

Donald Bryson Ogden¹, Christina Healy¹, Andy White¹, Mark Constantine²

1: Rights and Resources Initiative, United States of America; 2: International Finance Corporation

Etranger et accès a la terre en afrique de l'ouest

Ka Ibrahima

Initiative Prospective Agricole et Rurale, Senegal

Due diligence in land acquisition - Lawyers and their responsibilities

Margret Vidar¹, Kate Cook², Marianna Bicchieri¹

1: FAO, Italy; 2: Matrix Chambers, UK

Consequential trends in global recognition of community-based forest tenure from 2002-2017

Chloe Ginsburg, Stephanie Keene

Rights and Resources Initiative, United States of America

From lessons learnt to future options for global forest governance

Anna Begemann, Lukas Giessen, Marko Lovric, Jeanne Roux, Dennis Roitsch, Georg Winkel

European Forest Institute (EFI), Germany

Evidence on biodiversity conservation impacts: assessing theories, approaches, and outcomes from community engagement

Aireona Bonnie Raschke¹, Michael I. Brown², Samantha H. Cheng¹

1: Arizona State University, United States of America; 2: Chemonics, International

Producing useable knowledge for sustainable land governance: Potential contributions from land systems science

Ariane de Bremond¹, Albrecht Ehrensperger¹, Peter Messerli¹, Vincent Roth², Henri Rueff²

1: Global Land Programme/University of Bern, Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), Switzerland; 2: University of Bern, Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), Switzerland

Jurisprudence of the Supreme Federal court of Brazil in the process of demarcation of the indigenous reserve Raposa Serra do Sol

Jose de Arimateia Barbosa¹, Ariane Silva Barbosa², Rui Barbosa Netto³, Delaíde Passos⁴

1: Secretary of the association of Notaries and regisrars of te State of Mato Grosso- Brazil; 2: Lowyer; 3: Notary, Brazil; 4: UNICAMP

Assessing implementers’ perspective on reform processes: Progress and challenges in formalizing the rights of native communities in Peru

Iliana Monterroso, Anne Larson

CIFOR, Peru

Case study: a model for securing the legal recognition of indigenous lands rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Kysseline Cherestal¹, Alfred Kibiswa³, Kapupu Diwa Mutimanwa³, Keddy Bosulu², Roger Buhereko¹, Betto Nyongolo³, Loic Braune¹

1: World Bank, United States of America; 2: REPALEF, Réseau de populations autochtones pour la gestion durable des écosystèmes forestiers de la RDC; 3: LINAPYCO, Ligue nationale des associations autochtones pygmées du Congo

Indonesia: systematic land regularization and electronic land administration

Embun Sari

The Indonesia Ministry of Spatial Planning and Agrarian Reform, Indonesia

Land policy and administration reform in Nepal

Janak Raj Joshi

Ministry of Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation, Nepal

Uzbekistan real property register and cadastre modernization

Maksud Ruzmetov

Goskomzemgeodezkadastr, Uzbekistan

Property registration in India – Delhi perspective

Amlanjyoti Goswami

Indian Institute for Human Settlements, India

Discussant

Faiz Faiz-ul-Hassan

Punjab Land Records Authority, Government of Punjab, Pakistan

Discussant

Serene Ho

The University of Melbourne, Australia

Worldwide, Regional and local initiatives to regulate professional ethics

Curtis Sumner

National Society of Professional Surveyors, United States of America

Professional ethics under pressure, how to cope with technical developments

Maurice Barbieri

CLGE (Council of European Geodetic Surveyors), Switzerland

Ethics, from theory to practice

Jean-Yves Pirlot

CLGE (Comité de Liaison des Géomètres Européens), Belgium

Catalyzing innovation for global urban monitoring from a holistic utilization of big earth data, artificial intelligence and open knowledge

Thomas Esch¹, Felix Bachofer¹, Jakub Balhar², Martin Böttcher³, Enguerran Boissier⁴, Mattia Marconcini¹, Alessandro Marin⁵, Emmanuel Mathot⁴, Annekatrin Metz-Marconcini¹, Fabrizio Pacini⁴, Marc Paganini⁵, Tomas Soukup², Vaclav Svaton⁶, Julian Zeidler¹

1: German Aerospace Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany; 2: GISAT s.r.o., Prague, Czech Republic; 3: Brockmann Consult GmbH, Geesthacht, Germany; 4: Terradue Srl, Rome, Italy; 5: European Space Agency (ESA), ‎Frascati, Italy; 6: IT4Innovations – VSB Technical University of Ostrava, Ostrava-Poruba, Czech Republic

Earth Observation for supporting urban land use policy implementation

Thomas Haeusler, Sharon Gomez, Amelie Broszeit

GAF AG, Germany

Earth Observation – A support for the distributed energy sector

Rainer Malmberg, Elke Krätzschmar

IABG mbH, Germany

The impact of land regularization in rural Tanzania; gender, rights and anti- poverty case: the civil society organization’s parallel support to the land tenure support programme

Nasieku Kisambu¹, Jonathan Kioko¹, Mary Richard²

1: We Effect, Tanzania; 2: Tanzania Women Lawyers Association, Tanzania

A multi-stakeholder approach to advancing women’s land rights using the SDGs framework: experience from Tanzania

Godfrey Massay

Landesa, Tanzania

Women’s tenure rights and land reform in Angola

Allan Cain

Development Workshop, Angola

Using institutional cooperation, focusing on Capacity Building, to secure Gender Equality

Kent Johan Ronny Nilsson¹, Grace Nishimwe²

1: Lantmäteriet, Sweden; 2: Rwanda Land Management and Use Authority, Rwanda

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

1: Zhejiang University, China, People's Republic of; 2: Australia National University, Australia; 3: Guangdong 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

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

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

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

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

Process of buildings legalization in Republic of Macedonia from the perspective of the real estate cadastre

Sonja Dimova

Agency for Real Estate Cadastre, Macedonia, Former Yugoslav Republic of

Guidelines for formalization of informal constructions

Chrysi Potsiou¹, Steven Nystrom², Rik Wouters³

1: FIG International Federation of Surveyors, Greece; 2: FIG, United States of America; 3: UNECE WPLA, The Netherlands

Between informal and illegal: comparative analysis of non-compliance with planning and building laws

Rachelle Alterman

Neaman Institue for National Policy Research, Technion, Israel

Modernizing planning and development regulations in the Gaza Strip, Palestine

Zeyad Elshakra¹, Usama Sadawi², Farid Alqeeq², Nermin Zourob², Rami Abuzuhri¹

1: UN-Habitat, Palestinian Territories; 2: Palestinian Housing Council, Palestinian Territories

Customary tenure and agricultural investment in Uganda

Laura Meinzen-Dick

University of California Davis, United States of America

Rural land in Mauritania facing the challenge of development

Cheikh Saad Bouh Camara

Université de Nouakchott, Mauritania

Going for hybrid maize: the importance of land for the success of maize crop insurance in Tanzania

Meine Pieter van Dijk

Erasmus university Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Netherlands, The

Land rights and livelihoods in rural South Africa – a gendered perspective

Kezia Batisai

University of Johannesburg, South Africa

“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

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

Jointly towards improvement of land administration in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosiljka Predragovic¹, Zeljko Obradovic², Andja Zimic³, Denis Tabucic², Stojan Jungic¹, Dejan Jeremic³

1: Republic Authority for Geodetic and Real Property Affairs, Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina; 2: Federal Administration for Geodetic and Real Property Affairs, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina; 3: Capacity Building for Improvement of Land Administration and Procedures in Bosnia and Herzegovina - CILAP project

Innovative technology combat for still pending privatization, legalization challenges, rooted in the communist regime

Marianna Posfai¹, Odeta Näks²

1: NIRAS OY; 2: Independent

Innovative approaches in Georgian land registration reform

Elene Grigolia, Teimuraz Gabriadze

National Agency of Public Registry (NAPR), Georgia

Responding to the global agenda: valuation of undocumented lands to promote responsible land governance and human rights recognition

Danilo Antonio¹, Agatha Wanyonyi¹, Oumar Sylla¹, Clarissa Augustinus², Mike McDemortt²

1: UN-Habitat/GLTN, Kenya; 2: Independent Consultant, Kenya

Securing forest tenure for rural development: an integrated assessment tool

Jenny Springer¹, Gerardo Segura Warnholtz², Malcolm Childress³, James Smyle⁴

1: The Equator Group, United States of America; 2: World Bank, United States of America; 3: Land Alliance, United States of America; 4: Independent, United States of America

Whose land is it anyway? Exploring new ways for consensus building in policy making

Chilombo Musa

University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Land rights progress a participatory land governance tool for Cameroon

Samuel Nguiffo¹, Lorenzo Cotula², Brendan Schwartz², Jaff Bamendjo³

1: Centre pour l'Environment et Development, Cameroon; 2: International Institute for Environment and Development, Cameroon; 3: Network to Fight Against Hunger

First social then legal: what 902 decree – law changed. Follow-up on the Colombian Peace Agreements and land tenure issues II

Margarita Maria Varon Perea

Colombia Rural, Colombia

Between over-innovation and business as usual: another look at the reasons for delay in the implementation of the rural dimension of the Final Agreement in two departments of Colombia (Caquetá and Putumayo).

Klaas Geert van Vliet¹, Erika Andrea Rámirez²

1: CIRAD, France; Network for applied research on Transitions in Latinamerica and the Caribbean; 2: Foundation CERSUR, Colombia, Network for applied research on Transitions in Latinamerica and the Caribbean

Land markets, social networks and land-grabbing in Colombia.

Camilo Pardo

George Mason University, United States of America

Effects of land tenure formalization on illicit crop production in Colombia

Ivonne Astrid Moreno Horta

WORLD BANK, Colombia

Extended models from the Colombian LADM Profile as support of Territorial Planning

Oscar Zarama¹, Fabián Mejía², Moisés Poyatos³, Daniel Casalprim³

1: IGAC, Colombia; 2: BSF Swissphoto, Colombia; 3: BSF Swissphoto, Spain

The rights of indigenous people to the enjoyment of Human Rights to Land and Natural Resources in Uganda.

Rebecca Apio¹, Lilian Achola², Emmanuel Egaru³, Freda Orochi⁴, Rebecca Atayo², Betty Odur⁴

1: Trocaie Uganda, Uganda; 2: Landnet Uganda; 3: Land Justice Network; 4: Uganda Land Alliance

Understanding the key Drivers of Land use and Livelihood dynamics in the Drylands of Kenya: The Case of Fodder production in Isiolo County

Saada Mohamed Sala, David Jakinda Otieno, Jonathan Nzuma, Stephen Mwangi Mureithi

University of Nairobi, Kenya

Land and Pastoralism in Eastern Africa: lessons learned

Joanita Okedi

Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa (OSIEA), Uganda

Cyber security for Fintech and their role in sustainable development goals

Manohar Velpuri

TLF Tech Private Limited

Handbook for geospatial best practices for land administration

Stephen Calder

GIS/Transport, United States of America

Exploring UAS mapping to improve land and resource management in a Native American community

Adam Benjamin¹, Grenville Barnes², Casey Swanson³, Kevin Barthel⁴, Christen Corcoran⁴

1: University of Florida Geomatics Program, School of Forest Resources and Conservation, Fort Lauderdale, FL, United States of America; 2: University of Florida Geomatics Program, School of Forest Resources and Conservation, Gainsville, FL, United States of America; 3: Land And Natural Resources Division, Forest County Potawatomi, United States of America; 4: Global Land Alliance

SOLA open source for improving tenure governance - way forward

Maria Paola Rizzo¹, Rumyana Tonchovska¹, Louisa Jansen¹, Jan Van Bennekom-Minnema²

1: UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, Italy; 2: COWI A/S, Denmark

Blockchain revolution in Georgia

Elene Grigolia

National Agency of Public Registry (NAPR), Georgia

Masterclass on designing smart contracts for land administration

Todd Miller

ChromaWay, Sweden and United States of America

AI-powered spatio-temporal analytics to detect electricity theft from public road lighting infrastructures and support the efficient use of energy in degraded areas

Prof. Dr. Vassilios Vescoukis¹, Dr. Emmanouil Malliotakis², Georgios Papakyriakopoulos³, Konstantinos Papaspyrou¹

1: NTUA, School of Surveying Engineering, Spatial Intelligence Research Group; 2: Public Power Corporation S.A; 3: The World Bank

National security integrated land data bank for Nigeria

Olorunfemi Isaac Olu Adedurin

OGIS Consult Limited, Nigeria

Perceived tenure (in)security in the era of rural transformation: a gender-disaggregated analysis from mozambique

Hosaena Ghebru¹, Fikirte Girmachew²

1: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), United States of America; 2: Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EDRI), Ethiopia

Adopting data integration and interoperability as a tool for optimizing land and water governance

Paul Machogu

University of Nairobi, Kenya

India’s de-urbanization of manufacturing sector

Ejaz Ghani

World Bank, United States of America

Financial accessibility and private investment in developing countries

Ndilengar Mbatina Nodji¹, Sawadogo Tounwendé Alain²

1: Pan African University, Cameroon; 2: Ecole Supérieure Multinationale des Télécommunications (ESMT)

Land access and perceived tenure security in the era of social, economic and environmental dynamics/ transformation in Africa

Hosaena Ghebru¹, Fikirte Girmachew²

1: International Food Policy Research Institute; 2: Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EDRI), Ethiopia

Centralized traffic control (CTC) for greater Gaborone city

Polychronios Akritidis, Panagiotis Papadakos, Aris Karlaftis

NAMA S.A., Greece

Neighbor to neighbor: detroit's first property tax delinquency census

Alexander Alsup

Quicken Loans Community Fund, United States of America

The complementarity of education and use of productive inputs on economic outcomes among smallholder farmers in Africa

Oliver Kirui

Center for Development Research, Germany

Socioeconomic indices for townships in Myanmar

S Zaung Nau, Dora Marinova

Curtin University, Australia

Integrating evaluation into program cycle – opportunities and challenges in land policy reform programs

David Ameyaw

International Center for Evaluation and Development, Kenya

NGOs roles in cross-sector collaborations with SMEs and impact investors in developing countries: a values creation approach

Francesca Nugnes

FAST Finance Alliance for Sustainable Trade, France

Land Rights – an investment worth it? Case study from Ghana

Simon Ulvund¹, Eva Maria Unger², Chrit Lemmen²

1: Meridia; 2: ITC

Does tenure security influences soil quality and household resilience? Evidence from Senegal

Tamsir Mbaye¹, Katim Touré², Marieme Fall ba¹, Dioumacor Fall³, Moussa Dieng⁴, Sofia Espinosa⁵, Francesca Romano⁵

1: Senegalese Institute for Agricultural Research (ISRA)/ Commission nationale de réforme foncière (CNRF),Senegal; 2: L'Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Agriculture, Université de Thiès, Senegal; 3: Senegalese Institute for Agricultural Research (ISRA)/ Le Conseil national de régulation de l'audiovisuel (CNRA), Senegal; 4: Senegalese Institute for Agricultural Research (ISRA)/ Centre de Recherches Agricoles de Saint-Louis (CRA), Senegal; 5: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Italy

Innovation for meeting investments and traditional landrights

Marianna Posfai

NIRAS, Finland

Payments for environmental services on agricultural land: evidence from a choice experiment with tree planting contracts in Ethiopia

Kaleab Haile, Nyasha Tirivayi, Wondimagegn Tesfaye

UNU-MERIT, The Netherlands

Digital commodification of agriculture in Colombia: enclosures or collaborative land control mechanisms

Guillermo Medina

Lancaster University, Colombia

Corporate social responsibility and poverty alleviation: a case study of Wanda Danzhai village

Eric Heikkila¹, Manita Rao¹, Jingwen Zhang²

1: University of Southern California, United States of America; 2: Tsinghua University, People's Republic of China

Urban land governance and secure tenure in Latin America and the Caribbean: status and actions

Paola Siclari

The New School, United States of America

Land governance “AmBisyon 2040” : up-valuing Carp investments, millennial rural-urban inclusive growth

Eva Benita Tuzon

Department of Agrarian Reform-Support Services Office, Phillipines

Participatory and ecological aspects of rural revitalization in China

Michael Klaus¹, Karl Spindler², Fahria Masum³

1: Hanns Seidel Foundation, Germany; 2: Planungsbüro Spindler, Germany; 3: International Consultant, Germany

Innovation in land administration to aid agro-business investment, diversification of the Nigerian economy – Kano approach

Malandi Umar Kura

Kano State Bureau for Land Management, Nigeria

Private sector responsibility in supporting sustainable development

Cecilie Ravn-Christensen, Kenneth Norre

LE34, Denmark

Gender parity via digital land systems

Gitanjali Swamy¹, Phillip Auerswald², Ignacio Montero-Dasso³, Karol Boudreaux⁴

1: IoTask, Zilla Global, EQUALS- United Nations; 2: George Mason University, Zilla Global; 3: UTec, Peru, Zilla Global; 4: Landesa, Zilla Global

Land predation, climate change and poverty in Burkina Faso: a computable general equilibrium analysis

Yaya KY, Habi KY

Pan-African Research Center for Economic and Social Development (CARDES), Burkina Faso

The Brazilian Forest Service strategic for conservation, restoration, social and economic local involvement: The Arboretum Program

Lidiane Moretto¹, Natália Coelho Barbosa Albuquerque¹, Janaína de Almeida Rocha¹, Carlos Eduardo Portella Sturm¹, Fábio Fernandes Corrêa², Tito Nunes de Castro¹, Cristina Galvão Alves¹

1: Brazilian Forest Service, Brazil; 2: Public Prosecutor`s Office of the State of Bahia, Brazil

Mainstreaming Earth observation in agricultural development – preliminary demonstration results of the EO4SD initiative’s dedicated activity cluster on agriculture and rural development

Annemarie Klaasse¹, Remco Dost¹, Evelyn Aparicio Medrano², Eva Haas³, Silvia Huber⁴, Almudena Velasco Rodriguez⁵, Arjen Vrielink⁶, Raul Zurita-Milla⁷

1: eLEAF, The Netherlands; 2: Nelen & Schuurmans, The Netherlands; 3: GeoVille, Austria; 4: DHI GRAS, Denmark; 5: SpaceTec, Belgium; 6: Satelligence, The Netherlands; 7: ITC, The Netherlands

How disruptive innovation can be incubated in any NGO or large business with minimal change to the procurement process

Alexis Hannah Smith

IMGeospatial, United Kingdom

Innovative private sector initiatives to incentivise public buy-in to land administration services – examples from Ethiopia

John Leckie¹, Christina Mayr², Ignacio Fiestas²

1: DAI, United Kingdom; 2: Nathan Associates, United Kingdom

Smallholder land registration with the value chain, increasing productivity

Thomas Vaassen¹, Eva Maria Unger², Chrit Lemmen², Jonathan Seipl¹, Simon Ulvund¹

1: Meridia, Netherlands; 2: ITC, Netherlands

Effects of investment decisions on land formalization for rural households in Colombia

Alejandro Rueda Sanz

Banco de la República, Colombia

Land policy and political economy in Nigeria

Osahon Igun

Arconstruct Limited, Nigeria

Reforming land registration and administration through innovation in Kenya

Zubeda Mucheke¹, Ben Sihanya², Lizahmy Ntonjira³

1: Ministry of Lands and Physical Planning, Kenya; 2: University of Nairobi, Kenya; 3: Technical University of Kenya, Kenya

Effects of investment decisions on land formalization for rural households in Colombia

Alejandro Rueda Sanz

Banco de la República, Colombia

Land invasion and urban development in Zambian cities: form, causes, effects and possible solutions

Anthony Mushinge¹, Ephraim Kabunda Munshifwa¹, Sam Mwando²

1: Copperbelt University, Zambia; 2: Namibia University of Science and Technology, Namibia

Linking land tenure and use, catalyzing land use innovation for grassroots women

Grace Loumo, Ben Wacha

Action for Women and Awakening in Rural Environment, Uganda

Do farmers really like farming? Indian farmers in transition

Bina Agarwal¹, Ankush Agrawal²

1: University of Manchester, United Kingdom; 2: Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India

From ministry to farm house - building trust in post conflict rural Colombia by a multilevel and participative approach of land administration

Ernst Peter Oosterbroek¹, Victor Endo², Alvaro Ortiz³, Katherine Smyth⁴, Mathilde Molendijk¹

1: Kadaster, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands; 2: Administracion del Territorio Consultores, Lima, Peru; 3: Universidad Distrital, Bogota, Colombia; 4: Esri, Washington DC, United States of America

Mismanagement of diversity as bane to effective land administration in Nigeria: the way forward

Thomas Ashaolu

The Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro, Nigeria

Land governance in Namibia: challenges and opportunities

Ase Christensen

Namibia University of Science and Technology, Namibia

The confluence of land administration and land policy as determinants of formal land accessibility in Nigeria

Thomas Abiodun Ashaolu, Kazeem Bolayemi Akinbola

The Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro, Nigeria

Land policy distortions, credit constraints, and agricultural productivity: evidence from China’s apple growers

Xingguang Li, Jundi Liu, Xuexi Huo

Northwest A&F University, People's Republic of China

Are farmers really reluctant to land paid withdraw in China?

Mingyue Gong

Huazhong University of Science and Technology, People's Republic of China

Land tenure dynamics and contributions to livelihood diversification in Baringo County, Kenya

Ritah Setey¹, David Otieno¹, John Busienei¹, Per Knutsson²

1: University of Nairobi, Kenya; 2: University of Gothenburg, Sweden