Submissions Accepted for Presentation at the World Bank Land Conference 2024
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Session Overview |
| Date: Wednesday, 15/May/2024 | ||||
| 8:00am - 10:00am |
01-05: Local authorities, tenure security, and structural transformation Location: MC 13-121 Chair: Iain Shuker, World Bank, United States of America Land tenure security and deforestation: experimental evidence from Uganda Oregon State University, United States of America Who gains from individual property rights? Evidence from the allotment of Mapuche reservations 1: University of California, Santa Barbara, United States of America; 2: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Indigenous community recognition, identity, and democracy University of Chicago, United States of America Losing territory: The effect of administrative district splits on land use in the tropics 1: Asian Development Bank, Philippines; 2: The University of Texas at Dallas; 3: University of Göttingen, IZA, and RWI research networks |
02-05: Evidence on policies to improve forest and nature conservation Location: MC 9-100 Chair: Erik Katovich, University of Geneva, Switzerland Making a difference takes time: comparing the impacts of two direct conservation interventions on forest cover in a biodiversity hotspot 1: Boston University, United States of America; 2: Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia; 3: US Forest Service, United States of America; 4: Independent Consultant, Colombia Impacts of Paraguay’s zero-deforestation law 1: University of California, Santa Barbara; 2: Environmental Markets Lab, University of California, Santa Barbara Human and nature: economies of density and conservation in the Amazon rainforest 1: University of Essex; 2: The University of Tokyo; 3: Hitotsubashi University Outsourcing wildlife conservation: A comparative analysis of private and government management of protected areas in Africa 1: World Bank, United States of America; 2: UC Santa Barbara; 3: Chapman University |
03-05: Using new data to inform urban policies: Bridging the gap between theory and practice Location: MC 8-100 Chair: Tanner Regan, George Washington University, United States of America Building foundations for smarter cities: A data ecosystem approach 1: World Bank, Mozambique; 2: World Bank, City Planning Labs Global Beyond the Surface: Uncovering the complex interplay of intra-urban inequality in developing countries World Bank Group From Pixels to Policy: Decoding urban morphology and policy influences 1: World Bank Group; 2: German Aerospace Center (DLR) New research avenues on urban expansion and land commodification in the Global South. 1: IRD - French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development, France; 2: University Gustave Eiffel, Paris, France; 3: CNRS - French National Centre for Scientific Research; 4: IRD - French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development, France |
04-05: Technical issues in African land administration Location: MC 7-100 Chair: Abbas Rajabifard, University of Melbourne, Australia Understanding how local community participation and FPIC norms function in the context of land acquisition for agricultural investment in Ethiopia: Insights for responsible land tenure governance 1: Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia; 2: Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia; 3: Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia Monitoring forest cover dynamics for better climate conditions using Google Earth Engine: A case study of Megenaga Forest, Ethiopia Wuhan university ,People's Republic of China Application of an integrated survey approach for urban cadastral system Bahir Dar University, Institute of Land Administration, Ethiopia Development of 3d urban cadastre and property registration system: case study in bahir dar city Bahir Dar UNiversity, Ethiopia, Ethiopia |
| 10:00am - 10:30am |
Coffee break Location: MC 13-121 |
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| 10:30am - 12:30pm |
01-06: Exploring ways to improve land market functioning & rural land use efficiency Location: MC 13-121 Chair: Franziska Ohnsorge, World Bank, United States of America Land rental markets: experimental evidence from Kenya 1: Harvard University; 2: University of Zurich, Switzerland; 3: Columbia University Misallocation in Indian agriculture IMF, United States of America Land-market restrictions and agricultural productivity under market power University of California, Davis The effects of female land inheritance on economic productivity in Ghana University of Chicago, United States of America |
02-06: Factors affecting the performance of land markets Location: MC 9-100 Chair: Songqing Jin, Michigan State University, United States of America Influence of Financial Markets on Land Markets in Türkiye Ankara University, Turkiye Updating land information: Processes, opportunities, and challenges in North Wollo Zone, Ethiopia WOLDIA UNIVERSITY, Ethiopia Analysis of the contribution of land registration to sustainable land management in East Gojjam Zone, Ethiopia Debre Markos University, Ethiopia Do farmland sales markets price in weak property rights enforcement? Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), Germany |
03-06: Improving effectiveness of documenting land rights in Africa Location: MC 8-100 Chair: Joan Kagwanja, UNECA - African Union, Ethiopia Land taxation of peri-urban agricultural concessions in Kinshasa: towards an incentive model for agricultural production 1: University of Kinshasa (R.D.Congo.); 2: Institute of Agronomic Studies of Mvuazi at Kongo Central (ISEA / Mvuazi); 3: Multina-DMK Studies office; 4: Ministry of Land Affairs, Democratic Republic of Congo Bringing Rural Land Administration Services to the farmers Doorsteps Ministry of Agriculture, Ethiopia Comparative analysis of land policy instruments to tackle land fragmentation in the face of mounting climate risks Ministry of Agriculture, Bahir Dar University Land reform in Madagascar: Rationales, achievement and institutional Changes 1: CIRAD & Think Tany, Madagascar; 2: FAO, Madagascar; 3: CIRAD |
04-06: Land use and conflict Location: MC 7-100 Chair: Jeffrey Bloem, IFPRI, United States of America Food Security and Forest Access in the Colombian and Peruvian Amazon 1: Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT; 2: Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT; 3: University of British Columbia, Canada, Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT; 4: Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT; 5: Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT Analysis of armed conflict and its impact on agriculture using spatial regression techniques University of Göttingen, Germany Labor displacement in agriculture: Evidence from oil palm expansion in Indonesia 1: German Institute for Global and Area Studies, Hamburg, Germany; 2: International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Hyderabad; 3: Department of Economics, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany; 4: School of Economic Disciplines, University of Siegen, Siegen, Germany; 5: Department of Economics, Institut Pertanian Bogor (IPB University), Bogor, Indonesia; 6: Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany; 7: Institute for Food and Resource Economics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany Can ‘western’ initiatives for sustainable supply chains save tropical peatlands? Evidence from the Indonesian palm oil sector 1: German Institute for Global and Area Studies, Germany; 2: Centre for Development and Environment, University of Bern, Switzerland |
| 12:30pm - 1:30pm |
Lunch Location: MC 13-121 |
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| 1:30pm - 3:30pm |
01-07: Demand for and potential impact of land titling in Africa Location: MC 13-121 Chair: Arianna Legovini, World Bank, United States of America Fallow Lengths and the Structure of Property Rights 1: Université de Namur; 2: University of California San Diego; 3: University of Chicago Land values and formal property rights: evidence from 21 African countries Stanford University, United States of America Property rights and social institutions: how informal institutions and chiefs shape land formalization in urban Africa 1: Tel Aviv University, Israel; 2: University of Southern California; 3: University of Pittsburgh; 4: University of California, Berkeley Land- and credit-market effects of urban land titling: Evidence from Lesotho World Bank, United States of America |
02-07: Increasing the scope for positive outcomes from LSLBI Location: MC 9-100 Chair: Jolyne Sanjak, Tetratech, United States of America Embedding Land Risk Management in Corporate Governance: Lessons for and from India 1: Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India; 2: Landstack, Bhubhaneshwar, India Monitoring of agricultural investment areas in Ethiopia based on remote sensing time-series data 1: German Aerospace Center (DLR), German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany; 2: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Ethiopia Beyond the agro-export boom: the challenges of land concentration and fragmentation in Chile University of Kent, United Kingdom Legal incentives for land grabbing and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon Imazon, Brazil |
03-07: Institutional arrangements to facilitate access to housing Location: MC 8-100 Chair: Amrita Kulka, University of Warwick, United Kingdom Institutional analysis of Urban Land and Housing Policy shift in a metropolitan region, Case National Capital Region, Delhi, India Department of Architecture, Planning and Design, IIT(BHU), Varanasi, India Cultivated land expropriation in China ─ the roles of agglomeration and government fiscal deficits 1: Agricultural Economics and Rural Policy Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands; 2: Development Economics Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands.; 3: China Academy of Resources, Environment and Development, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China Farmland regulation, structural change and agricultural development: evidence from Chongqing land coupon reform The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China) Do mandatory disclosures squeeze the lemons? The case of housing markets in India 1: University of Manchester, United Kingdom; 2: CSEP India |
04-07: Assessing the impacts of large-scale land acquisition Location: MC 7-100 Chair: Elias Cisneros, The University of Texas at Dallas, United States of America The impact of large-scale land transactions on welfare and livelihoods of local communities: a meta-analysis 1: Guizhou University, China; 2: University of Gondar, Ethiopia; 3: International Centre for Evaluation and Development (ICED), Ghana; 4: Research Institute of Economics and Management, South Western University of Finance and Economics, China Converting cocoa farms into gold mines in Ghana – negotiations and compensation outcomes 1: University of Hohenheim, Germany; 2: Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Updating the Brazilian land atlas 1: Instituto Governança de Terras (IGT), Brazil; 2: Kadaster International, Netherlands; 3: Imaflora, Brazil; 4: The World Bank Leveraging geo-intelligence to map land suitability for private sector investment in agricultural value chains in Africa: A case study of Malawi UNECA, Ethiopia |
| 3:30pm - 4:00pm |
Tea break Location: MC 13-121 |
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| 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
01-08: Broader impacts of land titling Location: MC 13-121 Chair: Ming Zhang, World Bank, United States of America How property shapes distributional preferences University of Bologna, Italy Property rights without transfer rights: a study of Indian land allotment 1: University of Wisconsin - Madison; 2: Ivey Business School - Western University; 3: Arizona State University; 4: National Bureau of Economic Research Market design for Land Trade: Evidence from Uganda and Kenya London School of Economics, United Kingdom Credit impacts of titling rural habitation land: Evidence from India’s SVAMITVA scheme 1: World Bank, United States of America; 2: Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad |
02-08: Determinants and impacts of land reform implementation Location: MC 9-100 Chair: Benjamin Linkow, Millennium Challenge Corporation, United States of America The effects of pasture privatization on vegetation in southern Kazakhstan: evidence from a rich cadastral dataset Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany Revisiting the effects of the Ethiopian land tenure reform using satellite data. A focus on agricultural productivity, climate change mitigation and adaptation University of Reading, United Kingdom Measuring agricultural land inequality: conceptual and methodological issues 1: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Italy; 2: World Food Programme, Italy Navigating contested land claims under a peace agreement: Mapping multiple ancestral lands in Maguindanao, Philippines University of Cambridge |
03-08: Causes and consequences of informality in peri-urban land markets Location: MC 8-100 Chair: Dag Einar Sommervoll, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway Analyzing the impact of land expropriation program on farmers’ livelihood in urban fringes of Bahir Dar, Ethiopia 1: University of Bologna, Italy; 2: Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia Informal land markets and ethnic kinship in sub-Saharan African cities 1: The World Bank, United States of America; 2: Gustave Eiffel University, Land management and urban sprawl in Nigeria World Bank, United States of America Climate change, urban expansion, and food production World Bank, United States of America |
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