Submissions Accepted for Presentation at the World Bank Land Conference 2024

Bargaining power and inheritance norms: evidence from polygamous households in Nigeria.

Alessia Isopi¹, Jennifer Golan²

1: University of Manchester, United Kingdom; 2: University of Bath, United Kingdom

Agricultural land and the marital bond: The significance of joint land titles for women in western Uganda

Michelle Poulin¹, Rachael Pierotti²

1: University of California, Berkeley, USA; 2: World Bank, United States of America

What’s hers isn’t mine: Gender-differentiated tenure security, agricultural investments and productivity in sub-Saharan Africa

Martin Mwale¹, Jacob Ricker-Gilbert²

1: Government of Malawi,; 2: Purdue University

He says, she says, the GPS says: gender gaps in agricultural survey responses in Ghana

Ariel BenYishay¹, Seth Goodman¹, Katherine Nolan¹, Rachel Sayers¹, Kunwar Singh¹, Madeleine Walker², Jessica Wells¹

1: AidData, William & Mary, United States of America; 2: University of California, Davis, United States of America

Urban forests: environmental health values and risks

Jianwei Xing¹, Zhiren Hu², Fan Xia³, Jintao Xu¹, Eric Zou⁴

1: Beijing University; 2: Cornell University; 3: Nanjing University; 4: University of Michigan

Beyond Ostrom: Randomized experiment of the impact of individualized tree rights on forest management in Ethiopia

Ryo Takahashi¹, Keijiro Otsuka², Mesfin Tilahun³, Emiru Birhane⁴, Stein Holden⁴

1: Waseda University, Japan; 2: Kobe University; 3: Mekelle University; 4: Norwegian University of Life Sciences

Valuing the hidden benefits of forest-based climate change mitigation

Ingrid Schulte^1,2, Alexander Golub³, Christine Gerbode⁴, Constantino Dockendorff¹, Sabine Fuss^1,2

1: Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change, Germany; 2: Humboldt University of Berlin; 3: American University; 4: Environmental Defense Fund

Spatiotemporal scenarios for deforestation in Brazil’s Legal Amazon

Philipp Kollenda^1,2, Rafaella Almeida Silvestrini³, Andrea Santos Garcia^3,4, Dieter Wang¹, Marek Hanusch¹, Alvaro Maia Batista³, Carla Christina Solis Uehara¹

1: The World Bank Group, Washington, DC, US; 2: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL; 3: IPAM - Amazon Environmental Research Institute, Brasilia, BR; 4: Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, BE

Impacts of a digital credit-insurance bundle for landless farmers: Evidence from a cluster randomized trial in Odisha, India

Berber Kramer¹, Subhransu Pattnaik¹, Patrick Ward^1,2, Yingchen Xu²

1: International Food Policy Research Institute; 2: University of Florida

Resilience strategies to agricultural shocks and their effects on family farms in rural areas in Senegal

Marie Ndeye Gnilane Diouf¹, Andre Dumas Tsambou², Nelson Sergeo TagangTene³

1: Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar, Senegal; 2: University of Yaoundé II, Cameroon; 3: University of Yaoundé II, Cameroon

Ricardian land values and Economic Impacts of climate change on crop agriculture: Case of Malawi

Assa Maganga^1,3,5, Levison Chiwaula², Patrick Kambewa³, Mary Ngaiwi⁴

1: African Center of Excellency for Agriculture Policy Analysis, LUANAR; 2: MwAPATA Institute; 3: University of Malawi; 4: Alliance of Bioversity International & CIAT, Colombia; 5: Everest Intelligence Consult

Does household access to agricultural land influence nutritional outcomes in developing countries? Evidence from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)

Janvier Mwisha Kasiwa

University of Goma, Congo, Democratic Republic of the

Towns and rural land inequality in India

Manaswini Rao¹, Prashant Bharadwaj², Juan Eberhard³

1: University of Delaware, United States of America; 2: University of California San Diego, United States of America; 3: Universidad Andres Bello, Chile

Financial development and rural transformation: evidence from counties in China

Xuerong Wang¹, Xinpeng Xu², Yu Sheng¹

1: Peking University, China, People's Republic of; 2: Hong Kong Polytech University, Hong Kong SAS

Does market integration increase rural land inequality? Evidence from India

Claudia Berg¹, Brian Blankespoor¹, Shahe Emran², Forhad Shilpi¹

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

The Green Revolution and rural inequality: India

Leah Bevis

Ohio State University, United States of America

Making a difference takes time: comparing the impacts of two direct conservation interventions on forest cover in a biodiversity hotspot

Ana Reboredo Segovia¹, Leidy López Toro², Eric Bullock³, Paulo Arévalo¹, Clara Matallana⁴, Christoph Nolte¹

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

Anna Pede¹, Kendra Walker¹, Robert Heilmayr¹, Atahualpa Ayala², Lauren Sharwood²

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

Shunsuke Tsuda¹, Yoshito Takasaki², Mari Tanaka³

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

Sean Denny², Gabriel Englander¹, Patrick Hunnicutt³

1: World Bank, United States of America; 2: UC Santa Barbara; 3: Chapman University

Influence of Financial Markets on Land Markets in Türkiye

Harun Tanrivermis, Monsurat Ayojimi Salami, Yesim Tanrivermis

Ankara University, Turkiye

Updating land information: Processes, opportunities, and challenges in North Wollo Zone, Ethiopia

Yidenkchew Jember, Getie Gebrie

WOLDIA UNIVERSITY, Ethiopia

Analysis of the contribution of land registration to sustainable land management in East Gojjam Zone, Ethiopia

Abebaw Andarge Gedefaw

Debre Markos University, Ethiopia

Do farmland sales markets price in weak property rights enforcement?

Vasyl Kvartiuk, Thomas Herzfeld

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

Embedding Land Risk Management in Corporate Governance: Lessons for and from India

Ranjan Kumar Ghosh¹, Kiran Thete¹, Pranab Ranjan Choudhury²

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

Christina Eisfelder¹, Christian Mesmer²

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

Eduardo Villavicencio-Pinto

University of Kent, United Kingdom

Legal incentives for land grabbing and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

Brenda Brito do Carmo, Jeferson Almeida

Imazon, Brazil

The effects of pasture privatization on vegetation in southern Kazakhstan: evidence from a rich cadastral dataset

Eduard Bukin, Sarah Robinson, Martin Petrick

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

Stefania Lovo, Alexis Rampa

University of Reading, United Kingdom

Measuring agricultural land inequality: conceptual and methodological issues

Carlos Esteban Cabrera Cevallos¹, Yeshwas Admasu¹, Ana Paula De la O Campos¹, Francesco Maria Pierri¹, Lorenzo Moncada²

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

Maria Carmen Fernandez

University of Cambridge

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

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

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