Submissions Accepted for Presentation at the World Bank Land Conference 2024

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Session Overview
Date: Monday, 13/May/2024
1:30pm - 3:00pm00-01: Global survey of land institutions: initial findings and next steps
Location: MC 13-121
3:30pm - 5:00pm00-02: Land policies for resilient and equitable growth in Africa
Location: MC 13-121
Session Chair: Indermit Gill, World Bank, United States of America
Date: Tuesday, 14/May/2024
8:00am - 10:00am01-01: Using new spatial data to assess land use & household welfare
Location: MC 13-121
Session Chair: Olivier Dupriez, World Bank, United States of America
8:00am - 10:00am02-01: Gender-differentiated impacts of land tenure security in Africa
Location: MC 9-100
Session Chair: Michael O'Sullivan, World Bank, United States of America
8:00am - 10:00am03-01: Lessons from evaluating titling interventions and implications for the future
Location: MC 8-100
Session Chair: Jennifer Lisher, World Bank, United States of America
8:00am - 10:00am04-01: Land and labor markets
Location: MC 7-100
Session Chair: Stein Holden, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway
10:00am - 10:30amCoffee break
Location: MC 13-121
10:30am - 12:30pm01-02: Policies to improve housing affordability
Location: MC 13-121
Session Chair: Somik V. Lall, World Bank, United States of America
10:30am - 12:30pm02-02: Documenting and harnessing the multiple benefits from forests
Location: MC 9-100
Session Chair: Robert Heilmayr, University of California, Santa Barbara, United States of America
10:30am - 12:30pm03-02: Do institutional design and state capacity affect demand for property title and sustainability??
Location: MC 8-100
Session Chair: Chris Penrose-Buckley, Foreign, Commonwealth & development Office of the United Kingdom (FCDO), United Kingdom
10:30am - 12:30pm04-02: Key issues affecting rural structural transformation
Location: MC 7-100
Session Chair: Shuhei Kitamura, Osaka University, Japan
12:30pm - 1:30pmLunch
Location: MC 13-121
1:30pm - 3:30pm01-03: Can property taxation help achieve equity & efficiency objectives?
Location: MC 13-121
Session Chair: Arturo Herrera Gutierrez, World Bank, United States of America
1:30pm - 3:30pm02-03: Climate shocks and agricultural households’ resilience
Location: MC 9-100
Session Chair: Jintao Xu, Beijing University, China, People's Republic of
1:30pm - 3:30pm03-03: Can lower-cost approaches to rural land titling increase tenure security?
Location: MC 8-100
Session Chair: Jill Pike, Millenium Challenge Cooperation, United States of America
1:30pm - 3:30pm04-03: Exploring the links between land and conflict
Location: MC 7-100
Session Chair: Julian Arteaga, University of California, Davis, United States of America
3:30pm - 4:00pmTeabreak
Location: MC 13-121
4:00pm - 6:00pm01-04: Challenges of urban planning
Location: MC 13-121
Session Chair: Stephane Straub, World Bank, United States of America
4:00pm - 6:00pm02-04: Rural factor markets and structural transformation
Location: MC 9-100
Session Chair: Bruno Conte, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
4:00pm - 6:00pm03-04: Developing financial instruments to make climate mitigation pay
Location: MC 8-100
Session Chair: Stephane Hallegatte, World Bank, United States of America
4:00pm - 6:00pm04-04: Gendered impacts of land titling
Location: MC 7-100
Session Chair: Florence Kondylis, World Bank, United States of America
Date: Wednesday, 15/May/2024
8:00am - 10:00am01-05: Local authorities, tenure security, and structural transformation
Location: MC 13-121
Session Chair: Iain Shuker, World Bank, United States of America
8:00am - 10:00am02-05: Evidence on policies to improve forest and nature conservation
Location: MC 9-100
Session Chair: Erik Katovich, University of Geneva, Switzerland
8:00am - 10:00am03-05: Using new data to inform urban policies: Bridging the gap between theory and practice
Location: MC 8-100
Session Chair: Tanner Regan, George Washington University, United States of America
8:00am - 10:00am04-05: Technical issues in African land administration
Location: MC 7-100
Session Chair: Abbas Rajabifard, University of Melbourne, Australia
10:00am - 10:30amCoffee break
Location: MC 13-121
10:30am - 12:30pm01-06: Exploring ways to improve land market functioning & rural land use efficiency
Location: MC 13-121
Session Chair: Franziska Ohnsorge, World Bank, United States of America
10:30am - 12:30pm02-06: Factors affecting the performance of land markets
Location: MC 9-100
Session Chair: Songqing Jin, Michigan State University, United States of America
10:30am - 12:30pm03-06: Improving effectiveness of documenting land rights in Africa
Location: MC 8-100
Session Chair: Joan Kagwanja, UNECA - African Union, Ethiopia
10:30am - 12:30pm04-06: Land use and conflict
Location: MC 7-100
Session Chair: Jeffrey Bloem, IFPRI, United States of America
12:30pm - 1:30pmLunch
Location: MC 13-121
1:30pm - 3:30pm01-07: Demand for and potential impact of land titling in Africa
Location: MC 13-121
Session Chair: Arianna Legovini, World Bank, United States of America
1:30pm - 3:30pm02-07: Increasing the scope for positive outcomes from LSLBI
Location: MC 9-100
Session Chair: Jolyne Sanjak, Tetratech, United States of America
1:30pm - 3:30pm03-07: Institutional arrangements to facilitate access to housing
Location: MC 8-100
Session Chair: Amrita Kulka, University of Warwick, United Kingdom
1:30pm - 3:30pm04-07: Assessing the impacts of large-scale land acquisition
Location: MC 7-100
Session Chair: Elias Cisneros, The University of Texas at Dallas, United States of America
3:30pm - 4:00pmTea break
Location: MC 13-121
4:00pm - 6:00pm01-08: Broader impacts of land titling
Location: MC 13-121
Session Chair: Ming Zhang, World Bank, United States of America
4:00pm - 6:00pm02-08: Determinants and impacts of land reform implementation
Location: MC 9-100
Session Chair: Benjamin Linkow, Millennium Challenge Corporation, United States of America
4:00pm - 6:00pm03-08: Causes and consequences of informality in peri-urban land markets
Location: MC 8-100
Session Chair: Dag Einar Sommervoll, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway
Date: Thursday, 16/May/2024
8:00am - 10:00am01-09: Navigating trade-offs between land use change, sustainability, and conflict
Location: MC 13-121
Session Chair: Soukeyna Kane, World Bank, United States of America
8:00am - 10:00am02-09: Determinants and effects of climate-smart agricultural practices
Location: MC 9-100
Session Chair: Aparajita Goyal, World Bank, United States of America
8:00am - 10:00am03-09: Using property taxation as basis for a social contract
Location: MC 8-100
Session Chair: Stamatis Kotouzas, World Bank, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)
10:00am - 10:30amCoffee break
Location: MC 13-121
10:30am - 12:30pm01-10: Determinants and impacts of redistributive land reform
Location: MC 13-121
Session Chair: Deon Filmer, World Bank, United States of America
10:30am - 12:30pm02-10: Proper measurement of land size and land quality
Location: MC 9-100
Session Chair: Dean Jolliffe, World Bank, United States of America
10:30am - 12:30pm03-10: New ways of land valuation for effective property taxation
Location: MC 8-100
Session Chair: Rajul Awasthi, World Bank, Ethiopia
10:30am - 12:30pm04-10: Learn how open geospatial generative ai models are being used to track deforestation, illegal mining, and other environmental crises
Location: MC 7-100
12:30pm - 1:30pmLunch
Location: MC 13-121
1:30pm - 3:30pm01-11: Addressing risk of climate change in rural area
Location: MC 13-121
Session Chair: Benoit Bosquet, World Bank, United States of America
1:30pm - 3:30pm02-11: Effects of land registration on functioning of rural factor markets
Location: MC 9-100
Session Chair: Ariel BenYishay, William & Mary, United States of America
1:30pm - 3:30pm03-11: Addressing the challenges of putting property tax reform in practice
Location: MC 8-100
Session Chair: Rajul Awasthi, World Bank, Ethiopia
3:30pm - 4:00pmTea break
Location: MC 13-121
4:00pm - 6:00pm01-12: How data and analytical work can help address land-related bottlenecks to shared prosperity on a livable planet
Location: MC 13-121
Session Chair: Indermit Gill, World Bank, United States of America