Submissions Accepted for Presentation at the World Bank Land Conference 2024

Does local politics drive tropical land-use change? Property-level evidence from the Amazon

Erik Katovich

University of Geneva, Switzerland

Land-use transformation and conflict: The effects of oil palm expansion in Indonesia

Elias Cisneros¹, Tobias Hellmundt², Krisztina Kis-Katos²

1: University of Texas at Dallas; 2: University of Goettingen

Development mismatch: evidence from agricultural projects in pastoral Africa

Eoin McGurk¹, Nathan Nunn²

1: Tufts University, United States of America; 2: University of British Columbia, Canada

Landmine clearance and economic development: evidence from nighttime lights, multispectral satellite imagery, and conflict events in Afghanistan

Ariel BenYishay¹, Rachel Sayers¹, Kunwar Singh¹, Christian Baehr², Madeleine Walker³

1: William & Mary, United States of America; 2: Princeton University, United States of America; 3: University of California-Davis

The effect of integrated and substitutable soil fertility management technologies on maize yield, productivity, and food security: Evidence from Southwest region of Ethiopia

Kindineh Sisay Melaku

Haramaya University, Ethiopia

Exploring the influence of land access on climate-smart agriculture for low-emission food systems: a sustainable livelihood perspective

Mary Eyeniyeh Ngaiwi^1,2, Eric Junior Bomdzele^2,3, Assa Mulagha Maganga⁴, Majory Ongie Meliko², Alexander Buritica¹, Augusto Castro-Nunez¹

1: Alliance of Bioversity International & CIAT, Colombia; 2: University of Buea, Cameroon; 3: University of Reading; 4: African Center of Excellency for Agriculture Policy Analysis, LUANAR

Conservation agriculture impacts on economic profitability and environmental performance of agroecosystems

Lorenza Alexandra Lorenzetti, Andrea Fiorini

UCSC, Italy

Towards a balanced ecosystem: a comprehensive review of transformative land investment Environments in Ethiopia, Ghana, and Mozambique

Ermias Betemariam¹, Endalkachew Wolde-Meskel¹, Emily Gallagher¹, Tamiru Amanu², Delia Catacutan¹, George Schoneveld¹, Eunice Offei³, Divine Appiah³, Nana Yirrah³, Osvaldo Matessane³, Anne Larson¹

1: Centre for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF); 2: Wagenigen University Research; 3: SNV

Building comprehensive property tax systems in lower-income countries: ‘Cadaster-First’ versus ‘Property Tax-First’ approaches

Wilson Prichard¹, Colette Nyirakamana¹, Camille Barras², Marie Reine Mukazayire¹

1: University of Toronto/Local Government Revenue Initiative, Canada; 2: Local Government Revenue Initiative, Canada

Strengthening the fiscal contract by linking property tax reform and participatory budgeting in Freetown, Sierra Leone

Wilson Prichard¹, Kevin Grieco³, Abou Bakar Kamara², Julian Michel³, Niccolo Meriggi⁴

1: University of Toronto/Local Government Revenue Initiative, Canada; 2: International Growth Centre, Sierra Leone; 3: University of California - Los Angeles (UCLA); 4: Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford University

Should local and traditional authorities collaborate in raising property tax? A study of property owner preferences in Zambia

Nicolas Orgeira Pillai

Local Government Revenue Initiative, University of Sussex, World Bank

Empowering Indian cities to drive climate action: Expanding fiscal space through property tax reforms

Namita Aggarwal

Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy, India

Land Concentration and Long-Run Development in the Frontier United States

Cory Smith

University of Maryland, United States of America

Political competition and state capacity: evidence from a land allocation program in Mexico

Juan Felipe Riano

Georgetown University, United States of America

Harvesting votes: the electoral effects of the Italian land reform

Bruno Caprettini¹, Lorenzo Casaburi², Miriam Venturini³

1: University of St. Gallen, Switzerland; 2: University of Zurich, Switzerland; 3: University of Zurich, Switzerland

Tillers of prosperity: Land ownership, reallocation, and structural transformation

Shuhei Kitamura

Osaka University, Japan

Making measurement great again: The use of sensors and scanners for rapid, high-quality data on land

Sydney Gourlay¹, John Ilukor², Adriana Paolantonio¹

1: World Bank, Italy; 2: World Bank, Uganda

Addressing soil quality data gaps with imputation: evidence from Ethiopia and Uganda

Hai-Anh Dang, Calogero Carletto, Sydney Gourlay, Kseniya Abanokova

World Bank, United States of America

Measurement error and farm size: Do nationally representative surveys provide reliable estimates?

Stein Holden¹, Clifton Makate¹, Sarah Tione²

1: Norwegian University of Liife Sciences, Norway; 2: Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources

Measuring land rental market participation in smallholder household surveys: Can nudges and list experiment improve land market participation statistics?

Gashaw Abate¹, Kibrom Abay², Jordan Chamberlin³, Samuel Sebsibe⁴

1: IFPRI, United States of America; 2: IFPRI, United States of America; 3: CIMMYT, Kenya; 4: IFPRI, Ethiopia

Land value capture: guidance for practitioners

Olga Kaganova, Jon Kher Kaw, Gabor Peteri

World Bank, United States of America

The Netherlands study into discrepancy between assessed values and market prices

Luc Hermans², Jacob Zevenbergen¹, Ruud Kathmann², Marija Bockarjova¹

1: University of Twente, Netherlands, The; 2: Netherlands Council for Real Estate Assessment

Land value chain for property tax administration

Wolaganathan Govender

Terra Vital, South Africa

Analyzing factors affecting land prices in urbanized areas using machine learning: A basis for future 3D property valuations

Peyman Jafary^1,2, Davood Shojaei², Abbas Rajabifard², Tuan Ngo^1,3

1: Building 4.0 CRC, Caulfield East, Victoria, Australia; 2: Centre for Spatial Data Infrastructures and Land Administration, Department of Infrastructure Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; 3: Department of Infrastructure Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Generative AI for Earth. Learn how new open geospatial models help track deforestation, illegal mining, and other critical issues.

Mikel Maron¹, Bruno Sanchez-Andrade Nuno²

1: Earth Genome, United States of America; 2: Clay Foundation, United States of America

The effects of transportation infrastructure on deforestation in the amazon: a general equilibrium approach

Arthur Braganca¹, Rafael Araujo², Juliano Assuncao³

1: World Bank, Brazil; 2: FGV EESP; 3: PUC-Rio

Climate change and migration: the case of Africa

Bruno Conte

Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain

Temperature shocks and land fragmentation Evidence from transaction and property registry data

Heitor Pellegrina¹, Julian Arteaga², Margarita Gafaro³, Nicolas de Roux⁴, Ana Maria Ibanez⁵

1: University of Notre Dame, United States of America; 2: UC davis; 3: Banco de la Republica; 4: Universidad de Los Andes; 5: IDB

Interest-based negotiation over natural resources: experimental evidence from Liberia

Alessandro Toppeta¹, Darin Christensen², Alexandra Hartman³, Cyrus Samii⁴

1: Stockholm University, Sweden; 2: UCLA; 3: UCL; 4: NYU

Impacts of rural land reform on households in Burkina Faso

Heather Huntington², Kate Marple-Cantrell¹

1: The Cloudburst Group, United States of America; 2: University of Pennsylvania, United States of America

Does the Quality of Land Records Affect the Credit Access of Households in India?

Diya Uday¹, Susan Thomas²

1: xKDR Forum, India; 2: xKDR Forum, India

Can land registration increase willingness to pay for agricultural inputs? Short-term experimental evidence from women farmers in Mozambique.

Claire Boxho, Andrew Brudevold-Newman, Joao Montalvao, Michael O'Sullivan

World Bank, United States of America

The effects of improved land rights on land markets, land use efficiency, employment and household welfare: Evidence from 2013 Vietnam Land Law

Tram Hoang¹, Songqing Jin¹, Klaus Deininger², Hai-Anh Dang²

1: Michigan State University; 2: World Bank

The key for a continuous cadastre updating is a gradual progressive tax increase. Bogota, Colombia.

Juan Ricardo Ortega Lopez

BOGOTA ENERGY GROUP, Colombia

Improving property tax collection in Zambia

Rajul Awasthi

World Bank, Ethiopia

Nigeria - moving forward from establishing the foundations of property tax

Taiwo Oyedele

Government of Nigeria, Nigeria