Submissions Accepted for Presentation at the World Bank Land Conference 2024

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Session Overview

Date: Monday, 13/May/2024
1:30pm - 3:00pm	00-01: Global survey of land institutions: initial findings and next steps Location: MC 13-121
3:30pm - 5:00pm	00-02: Land policies for resilient and equitable growth in Africa Location: MC 13-121 Chair: Indermit Gill, World Bank, United States of America

Date: Tuesday, 14/May/2024
8:00am - 10:00am	01-01: Using new spatial data to assess land use & household welfare Location: MC 13-121 Chair: Olivier Dupriez, World Bank, United States of America	02-01: Gender-differentiated impacts of land tenure security in Africa Location: MC 9-100 Chair: Michael O'Sullivan, World Bank, United States of America	03-01: Lessons from evaluating titling interventions and implications for the future Location: MC 8-100 Chair: Jennifer Lisher, World Bank, United States of America	04-01: Land and labor markets Location: MC 7-100 Chair: Stein Holden, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway
10:00am - 10:30am	Coffee break Location: MC 13-121
10:30am - 12:30pm	01-02: Policies to improve housing affordability Location: MC 13-121 Chair: Somik V. Lall, World Bank, United States of America	02-02: Documenting and harnessing the multiple benefits from forests Location: MC 9-100 Chair: Robert Heilmayr, University of California, Santa Barbara, United States of America	03-02: Do institutional design and state capacity affect demand for property title and sustainability?? Location: MC 8-100 Chair: Chris Penrose-Buckley, Foreign, Commonwealth & development Office of the United Kingdom (FCDO), United Kingdom	04-02: Key issues affecting rural structural transformation Location: MC 7-100 Chair: Shuhei Kitamura, Osaka University, Japan
12:30pm - 1:30pm	Lunch Location: MC 13-121
1:30pm - 3:30pm	01-03: Can property taxation help achieve equity & efficiency objectives? Location: MC 13-121 Chair: Arturo Herrera Gutierrez, World Bank, United States of America	02-03: Climate shocks and agricultural households’ resilience Location: MC 9-100 Chair: Jintao Xu, Beijing University, China, People's Republic of	03-03: Can lower-cost approaches to rural land titling increase tenure security? Location: MC 8-100 Chair: Jill Pike, Millenium Challenge Cooperation, United States of America	04-03: Exploring the links between land and conflict Location: MC 7-100 Chair: Julian Arteaga, University of California, Davis, United States of America
3:30pm - 4:00pm	Teabreak Location: MC 13-121
4:00pm - 6:00pm	01-04: Challenges of urban planning Location: MC 13-121 Chair: Stephane Straub, World Bank, United States of America	02-04: Rural factor markets and structural transformation Location: MC 9-100 Chair: Bruno Conte, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain	03-04: Developing financial instruments to make climate mitigation pay Location: MC 8-100 Chair: Stephane Hallegatte, World Bank, United States of America	04-04: Gendered impacts of land titling Location: MC 7-100 Chair: Florence Kondylis, World Bank, United States of America

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	02-05: Evidence on policies to improve forest and nature conservation Location: MC 9-100 Chair: Erik Katovich, University of Geneva, Switzerland	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	04-05: Technical issues in African land administration Location: MC 7-100 Chair: Abbas Rajabifard, University of Melbourne, Australia
10:00am - 10:30am	Coffee break Location: MC 13-121
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	02-06: Factors affecting the performance of land markets Location: MC 9-100 Chair: Songqing Jin, Michigan State University, United States of America	03-06: Improving effectiveness of documenting land rights in Africa Location: MC 8-100 Chair: Joan Kagwanja, UNECA - African Union, Ethiopia	04-06: Land use and conflict Location: MC 7-100 Chair: Jeffrey Bloem, IFPRI, United States of America
12:30pm - 1:30pm	Lunch Location: MC 13-121
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	02-07: Increasing the scope for positive outcomes from LSLBI Location: MC 9-100 Chair: Jolyne Sanjak, Tetratech, United States of America	03-07: Institutional arrangements to facilitate access to housing Location: MC 8-100 Chair: Amrita Kulka, University of Warwick, United Kingdom	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
3:30pm - 4:00pm	Tea break Location: MC 13-121
4:00pm - 6:00pm	01-08: Broader impacts of land titling Location: MC 13-121 Chair: Ming Zhang, World Bank, United States of America	02-08: Determinants and impacts of land reform implementation Location: MC 9-100 Chair: Benjamin Linkow, Millennium Challenge Corporation, United States of America	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

Date: Thursday, 16/May/2024
8:00am - 10:00am	01-09: Navigating trade-offs between land use change, sustainability, and conflict Location: MC 13-121 Chair: Soukeyna Kane, World Bank, United States of America	02-09: Determinants and effects of climate-smart agricultural practices Location: MC 9-100 Chair: Aparajita Goyal, World Bank, United States of America	03-09: Using property taxation as basis for a social contract Location: MC 8-100 Chair: Stamatis Kotouzas, World Bank, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)
10:00am - 10:30am	Coffee break Location: MC 13-121
10:30am - 12:30pm	01-10: Determinants and impacts of redistributive land reform Location: MC 13-121 Chair: Deon Filmer, World Bank, United States of America	02-10: Proper measurement of land size and land quality Location: MC 9-100 Chair: Dean Jolliffe, World Bank, United States of America	03-10: New ways of land valuation for effective property taxation Location: MC 8-100 Chair: Rajul Awasthi, World Bank, Ethiopia	04-10: 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 - 1:30pm	Lunch Location: MC 13-121
1:30pm - 3:30pm	01-11: Addressing risk of climate change in rural area Location: MC 13-121 Chair: Benoit Bosquet, World Bank, United States of America	02-11: Effects of land registration on functioning of rural factor markets Location: MC 9-100 Chair: Ariel BenYishay, William & Mary, United States of America	03-11: Addressing the challenges of putting property tax reform in practice Location: MC 8-100 Chair: Rajul Awasthi, World Bank, Ethiopia
3:30pm - 4:00pm	Tea break Location: MC 13-121
4:00pm - 6:00pm	01-12: How data and analytical work can help address land-related bottlenecks to shared prosperity on a livable planet Location: MC 13-121 Chair: Indermit Gill, World Bank, United States of America