Conference and Seminar Proceedings

Opening session
Chair: Hart Schafer, Director, SDN, World Bank

Katherine Sierra, Vice President SDN, World Bank:
Opening remarks
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HE Ellen Sirleaf-Johnson, President of Liberia:
Keynote address: The importance of land policy in post-conflict situations: The case of Liberia
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Stig Enemark, President, International Federation of Surveyors (FIG):
Keynote address: Land Governance for Sustainable Development
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Tony Burns, Managing Director, Land Equity International, Australia:
Towards a general framework for assessing land governance
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J. M. Lusugga Kironde, Professor, Ardhi University, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania:
Improving land sector governance in Africa: The case of Tanzania
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Victor Endo, Vice President, International Operations, Institute for Liberty and Democracy, Peru:
Improving land sector governance in Latin America: The case of Peru
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A. Undeland, Independent consultant, Bishkek, Kyrgiz Republic:
Improving land sector governance in Eastern Europe: The case of the Kyrgiz Republic
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Discussant: Willi Zimmermann, Land Tenure Adviser, GTZ, Germany

Derek Byerlee, World Bank:
Drivers of investment in large-scale farming new and old: Evidence & implications for policy
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Lorenzo Cotula, Senior Researcher, Law & Sustainavble Development, Natural Resources, IIED, UK:
Addressing the challenges of biofuels and resource extraction
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Grenville Barnes, Assoc. Prof. Geomatics, University of Florida Gainesville, USA:
Property rights to carbon in the context of climate change
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Discussant: T. Ngaido, Senior Research Fellow & Head of Senegal Office, IFPRI and
S. Schonberger, Lead Operations Officer, EASRE, World Bank

Gustavo Gordillo de Anda, University of Indiana, and former Vice Minister of Agriculture, Government of Mexico:
The political economy (and governance impact) of land policy reform: The case of Mexico’s PROCEDE
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Raimundo Cossa, Director DNTF (National Directorate of Land and Forests), Mozambique
P. de Wit, Land Policy and Strategy Adviser, MCA, Mozambique:
Legal and policy reforms to increase security of tenure and improve land administration
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Mark Napier, Urban Land Mark South Africa:
Competition for urban land : Enhancing the bidding poser by the poor
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Discussant: D. von Behaim, Senior Planning Officer, Land Management, GTZ

Joan Kagwanja, Economic Affairs Officer, UN-ECA:
The AU/AfDB/ECA land policy initiative: Progress thus far and next steps
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Martin Bwalya, Senior Specialist, NEPAD Secretariat:
Implementing land policies on the ground: The role of the CAADP process
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Lionel Vignacq, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs:
The French White paper on securing land rights & land governance
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Teo Chee Hai, Director Geometra Surveys Sdn Bhd, Malaysia:
Land policy networks in South East Asia: How to make them more effective?
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John Farrington, Research Fellow, ODI and Jonathan Lingham, Policy Division, DFID:
Linkages between land policy & food sectors in developing countries
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Mika Törhönen, Land Tenure Office, FAO, Italy:
The FAO voluntary guidelines on land governance
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Annalisa Mauro, Program Officer, International Land Coalition, Latin America:
Forging partnerships on a global land reporting initiative
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Santiago Borrero Mutis, Secretary General, Panamerican Inst. Geography & History, Mexico:
Building Spatial Data Infrastructures in Latin America
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Matthew B. Higgins, Principal Advisor, Dept. of Nat. Resources, Mines and Water, Queensland, Australia:
Positioning infrastructures for sustainable land governance
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Vit Suchanek, COSCMC:
Establishing a modern land administration system: The case of the Czech Republic
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Iain Greenway, Chief Executive, Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland:
Institutional and organizational developments for land administration
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Discussant: Tommy Österberg, Swedesurvey, Sweden

Donatha Kapitango, Development Planner, Communal Land Bd.,Oshikoto, Government of Namibia
Marcel G. J. Meijs, Government of Namibia:
Large-scale adjudication based on aerial photography in Namibia: Costs and lessons
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D. Sagashya, Deputy Director, National Land Centre, MINIRENA, Rwanda
Clive English, Senior Project Director & Land Consultant, HTSPE:
Establishing a land administration system: Technical and Economic Analysis for Rwanda
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Eugene Silayo, Senior Lecturer, Ardhi University, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania:
Urban land policies for the urban poor in East and Southern Africa 
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Discussant: Daniel Roberge, Director Office Surveyor General of Quebèc, Canada

Gavin Adlington, Lead Land Administration Specialist, World Bank:
Experience from 10 Years of Improving Land Administration in ECA
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Zhao Yang, Director General, FEA, Government of China:
China’s pilot rural land registration scheme in the context of current policy developments
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T. Hanstad, Executive Director, RDI:
Using legal aid to empower rural women in Andhra Pradesh: Experience and lessons thus far
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Discussant: Peter Creuzer, President, UN-ECE WPLA, Germany; and
M. Goldstein, Senior Economist, PRMGE & DECRG

Jintao Xu, Professor, Beijing University:
Collective forest tenure reform in China: Outcomes & implications 
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Ben Cousins, Director, PLAAS, South Africa:
Potential & pitfalls of communal tenure: Global experience and implications for South Africa
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Diane Dumashie, Private Consultant, UK:
Coastal communities: Securing equitable access to land and natural resources
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Discussants: Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Senior Researcher, IFPRI; and John Bruce, President, LADSI

Christiaan Lemmen, Assistant Professor ITC, Enschede:
Implementing the Social Tenure Domain Model with open source software: The case of Ethiopia
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Carlos M. de Souza Jr., Imazon, Brazil:
Near real-time Deforestation Detection for Enforcement of Forest Reserves in Mato Grosso
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Y. V. N. Krishna Murthy, Director, Indian Space Research Organization, India:
A state-wide LIS for NRM and disaster monitoring: Scope for land administration
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Michael Barry, Associate Professor, University of Calgary, Canada:
Applying low-cost technologies in the field: Development of the talking titler
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Discussants: Odame Larbi, Project Director, Ghana Land Administration Project; and Daniel Steudler, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

Juan Sebastian Chamorro, Office of the President, Nicaragua &
Michael R. Carter, Professor, University of Wisconsin, USA:
Credit market impact of land titling in Nicaragua: Methodology and emerging challenges
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Tekie Alemu, Professor, University of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia:
Investment impacts of land certification in Ethiopia
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Aparajita Goyal, Economist, World Bank:
Benefits from changing women’s inheritance of land: The case of the Hindu Succession Act
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Discussant: Jolyne Sanjak, Managing Director MCC

Stephen B. Butler, Senior Associate, NORC, University of Chicago, USA:
Improving land policy for private sector development in Nigeria: Lessons and challenges ahead
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Angus Selby, Senior Investment Policy Officer, CICIG, Morgan Stanley, UK:
Institutional investment in agricultural activities: Potential and pitfalls
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Alain Traore, Doing Business Better in Burkina Faso:
Using 'doing business' as a catalyst for land policy reform: The case of Burkina Faso
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Discussant: Roel Spee, Global Leader, IBM Plant Locations International

Jude Wallace, Professor, University Melbourne, Australia:
Making land markets work for all
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Jeffrey Riedinger, Dean, School of International Relations, Michigan State University, USA:
The impact of legal changes on land market activity in China’s rapidly changing environment
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Richard Grover, Principal Lecturer, School Built Environment, Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom:
Measures to enhance trust in LAS and enhance proper use
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Rexford Ahene, Professor, Lafayette College, Easton, USA:
Measures to improve equal access to land resources and related benefits in Uganda
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Discussants: Tony Burns, Managing Director, Land Equity International, Australia; and
Robert P. Mahoney, Principal - Mahoney Geomatics, United Kingdom

Stein Holden, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway:
Impacts of land certification on land market activity in Ethiopia
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Quy-Toan Do, Economist, World Bank:
Land consolidation in Vietnam: Results from a randomized experiment
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Songqing Jin, Assistant Professor, Michigan State University, USA:
Interaction between land and labor markets in China
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Daniel Ayalew Ali, Economist, World Bank:
Land market functioning in Ethiopia: Impacts and determinants
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Discussants: Gunnar Köhlin, Associate Professor and Director, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

James Putzel, Professor, London School of Economics, UK:
Land policies and violent conflict: Towards addressing the root causes
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P. Debroux, M. Bekhechi, and G. Topa, World Bank:
The potential contribution of land rights to recovery in the DRC
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Dan E. Stigall, US Army, JAG:
Dealing with land tenure in Iraq: Past failures and future opportunities
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Discussants: Szilard Fricska, UN-HABITAT; and Douglas E. Batson, US Dept. of Defense

Arsenio Balisacan, Director SEARCA & Fabrizio Bresciani, World Bank:
Direct and indirect impacts of CARL in the Philippines: Lessons for the future
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Malcolm Keswell, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa:
Impacts of market-assisted land reform in South Africa: A matching approach
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Vandana Yadav, Prof. and Songqing Jin, Asst. Prof., Michigan State University, USA:
What is needed to ‘complete’ land reforms in West Bengal?
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Discussants: Michael Kirk, Professor, University of Marburg, Germany

Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI:
Women, land ownership and economic empowerment: Framework, issues and questions
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Renée Giovarelli, Senior Fellow, Global Center for Women's Land Rights, Rural Development Inst.:
Do legal reforms really help women gain access to land?
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T. Lamb, International Legal Consultant:
Enforcement capacity: Challenges and opportunities in integrating gender into Kosova land project
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Tim Hanstad, Executive Director, Rural Development Institute:
Lessons learned from the program on women's access to land in India
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Annalisa Mauro, Program Manager, Latin America, International Land Coalition
Linking research and action and evidence-based advocacy: The ILC experience
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Discussant: Ben Cousins, Director, PLAAS, South Africa

David E. Dowall, Professor, UC Berkeley, USA:
Providing technical assistance on national territorial planning legislation: Albania experience
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Maria Camila Uribe Sánchez, Bogota Municipal Cadastre, Colombia:
The role of land information in Bogota’s land tax reforms
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Robin Rajack, Senior Development Specialist, FEU, World Bank:
Improving land governance in urban settings: Approaches and experience thus far
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Discussant: Bengt Kjellson, National Mapping, Cadastre and Land Registration Authority of Sweden

Theo Kötter, Professor University of Bonn, Germany:
Developing urban Indicators for Managing Mega Cities
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Chryssy Potsiou, Assistant Professor, National Technical University Athens, Greece:
Formalizing informal settlements in Eastern Europe: Lessons from experience
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Mila Freire, Senior Advisor, FEU, World Bank:
Dealing with spatial diversity: Key land policy messages of the 2009 WDR
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Robin McLaren, Director Know Edge Ltd Edinburgh, United Kingdom:
Formulating a sectoral approach to urban land policy: The case of Kenya
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Discussant: Gregory K. Ingram, President and CEO, Lincoln Institute for Land Policy

Marius Ratolojanahary, Minister of Land Reform & Administration Government of Madagascar:
Implementing a nation-wide land administration system
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Collins Dauda, Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Government of Ghana:
Improving land administration in Ghana: Lessons and challenges in moving ahead
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Rita Sinha, Secretary Land Resources, Government of India:
Moving towards clear land title in India: Potential benefits, a roadmap, and remaining challenges
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Amos Sawyer, Head Governance Commission, Government of Liberia:
The challenges of land administration in post-conflict Liberia: Status and next steps
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Joyo Winoto, Head, BPN Indonesia:
Taking land policy & administration in Indonesia to the next stage: BPN’ strategic plan
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Chris Paresi, UNU School of Land Administration Studies, ITC/Kadaster, the Netherlands:
UNU School for Land Administration Studies
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Pierre Desjardins, Business Manager, GNSS Infrastructure Solutions, Trimble Navigation
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Brent Jones, Industry Manager, Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI)
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Kurt Schibli, EMEA Director, Coordination & Projects, Leica Geosystems:
Digital Airborne Imaging Solutions
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Paul Munro-Faure, Head, Land Tenure Service and Management Unit, FAO
Helge Onsrud, Director, Centre of Property Rights and Development, Norwegian Cadastre:
Land Governance for the 21st century
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Paul van der Molen, Head Kadaster International, The Netherlands:
Building sustainable land administration systems
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Cheryl Morden, Director, North American Liaison Office, IFAD:
Securing social tenure for the poorest
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Jolyne Sanjak, Managing Director, MCC:
Making land markets work for all
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Clarissa Augustinus, Chief, Land Tenure and Property Administration, UN-HABITAT:
Improving access to land and shelter
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Alain Durand-Lasserve, Director of Research, Nat'l Centre of Sci. Res., France:
Land governance for rapid urbanization
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Stig Enemark, President, International Federation of Surveyors:
Conclusions
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Klaus Deininger, Land Tenure Adviser, ARD, World Bank:
Key issues and next steps
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