Washington, DC
April 26 and 27, 2010
Monday, April 26, 2010 08:30 - 10:00 | Room | Session | | MC 13-121 | ACQ1: Is there a global land rush? | | Chair
H. Kifle, Chief Development Strategist, IFAD | | Presentations | | The global land rush: Getting down to the facts
K. Deininger, Land Tenure Adviser, ARD, World Bank | | | Results from action-oriented research on large scale agricultural investments led by civil society
M. Taylor, Land Policy Programme Manager for Africa, ILC Secretariat, Rome | | A regional perspective on principles for resonsible agro-investment: OECD's West African case studies
L. Hitimana, Agriculture Economist, Sahel and West Africa Club, OECD | | Operationalizing the principles for responsible agro-investment through a knowledge platform and toolkit
J. Lamb, Senior Agribusiness Specialist, ARD, World Bank |
MC 2-800 |
GOV1: Moving towards 'land inforamtion 2025': Next Steps | | Chair
R. Mahoney, Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, London | | | Presentations | | | From cadastre to land governance: the changing role of land professionals in support of the global agenda
S. Enemark, Professor, Aalborg University, Denmark | | | From LADM/STDM to spatially enabled society: a vision for 2025
H. Uitermark, Visiting Scientist, ITC | | | Global position infrasturctures and their relevance to building sustainable land administration systems
M. Higgins, Department of Natural Resources & Water, Queensland Governmant, Australia | | | Helping to meet the software needs for low-cost land administration
M. Torhönen, Land Tenure Officer, FAO | | | Discussants | | | K. Bell, Senior Land Policy Specialist, World Bank | | | P. Rabley, President, International Land Systems US |
MC 9-100 |
CAP1: Improving women’s land access: Options and lessons | | | Chair
M. Verveer, Ambassador at Large for Global Women’s Issues, USA | | | Presentations | | | Does inheritance law reform increase women’s access to assets? Evidence from South India
A. Goyal, World Bank | | | Policy reform towards gender equality in Ethiopia: Little by little the egg begins to walk
A. Quisumbing, Senior Research Fellow, International Food & Policy
Research Institute (IFPRI) | | | Legal assistance and women’s land rights in Andhra Pradesh: Designing a policy evaluation
T. Hanstad, President, Rural Development Institute (RDI) | | Discussants | | | C. Doss, Senior Lecturer, Yale University |
10:30 - 12:00 | Room | Session | | Preston Aud | OPENING SESSION | | | Chair
J. Lin, Chief Economist and Senior Vice President, World Bank | | Opening Remarks | | Facilitating land access and agricultural investment: The role of international institutions
K. Nwanze, President, IFAD | | Securing land rights for the poor: The case of Lesotho
P. Sekatle Matumelo, Minister of Local Government, Kingdom of Lesotho | | | | | | Keynote Address
| | | Robust propoert rights institutions to manage local and global commons: Lessons & Challenges
E. Ostrom, Professor, Indiana University, Nobel Prize in Economics, 2009 | | Discussion |
13:00 - 14:30
| Room | Session | | MC 13-121 | ACQ2: Large scale agricultural investment: Country perspectives | | | Chair
P. Collier, Professor of Economics, Oxford University | | | Presentations | | | Strengthening economic evaluation and data for large scale investments in Mozambique: Key lessons
R. Albino, Director, Center for Agricultural Promotion (CEPAGRI), Republic of Mozambique | | | The Government's roles in attracting viable agriculturalinvestment: Experience from Ghana
K. Ahwoi, Minister of Food and Agriculture, Republic of Ghana | | | An innovative public-private partnership for national food security and sustainable RAI
N. Al Hajri, Chairman, Hassad Food, Qatar | | Discussant | | | L. del Castillo, Co-Chair, International Land Coalition |
MC 2-800 |
GOV2: Towards better land governance: Lessons learned and way forward | | Chair
R. Meinzen-Dick, Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) | | Presentations | | The voluntary guidelines for good governance of land & natural resources: Content, process & next steps
P. Munro-Faure, Head, Land Tenure & Management Unit, FAO | | Using the land governance assessment framework (LGAF): Lessons and next steps
H. Selod, Senior Economist, ARD, World Bank | | Using the LGAF to feed into the domestic policy dialogue: Lessons from Benin’s experience
J. Tonato, Associate, Impact Consultants, Benin | | | Applying the LGAF to Peru: Substantive insights and local follow up
V. Endo, Executive Director, Administracion del Territorio, Peru | | Discussants | | W. Zimmerman, Land Tenure Adviser, GTZ | | | M. Niasse, Director, International Land Coalition, Rome |
MC 9-100 |
CAP2: Putting land institutions in context | | Chair
J. Sanjak, Managing Director, MCC | | Presentations | | The theory and policy of contractual registers
B. Arrunada, Professor, University Pompeu Fabra | | | Going digital: Credit effects of land registry computerization in India
K. Deininger, Land Tenure Adviser, ARD, World Bank | | Land reform in Africa: No-intervention agreements
G. Köhlin, Director, Environment for Development, University of Gothenburg | | Discussants | | A. Teyssier, CIRAD Montpellier |
15:00 - 16:30 | Room | Session | | MC 13-121 | ACQ3: Social and environmental aspects of large scale agricultural investments | | Chair
C. Fisiy, Director, Social Development, World Bank | | Presentations | | | | Do outgrower schemes improve local livelihoods? Evidence from Zambia
D. Gumbo, Regional Scientist, Center for International Forestry Research
(CIFOR), Zambia | | Social impact of large scale agro-investments in the FSU: Lessons from Ukraine’s experience
I. Gazizulin, Senior Analyst, International Centre for Policy Studies, Ukraine | | | Large scale land concessions in Liberia: Has the renegotiation process improved social outcomes?
S. Gotomo, Executive Director, Making Enterprises Ltd., Liberia | | Discussant | | C. Planҫon, Land Policy Specialist, French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs | | | G. Myers, Senior Land Tenure and Property Rights Specialist, USAID |
MC 2-800 |
GOV3: Land Commissions | | Chair
D. Jacovella, Assistant Deputy Minister,
Canadian International Development Agency | | | Presentations | | | Land reform in Nigeria: Progress, problems, and prospects
A. Mabogunje, Chairman, Presidential Technical Commission on Land
Reform, Government of Nigeria | | | Dealing with land relations in Liberia: The land commission’s approach and agenda
O. Brandy, Chairman of the Land Commission, Republic of Liberia | | | The emerging research agenda on land in Liberia
J. Carter, Co-Director, Institute for Research, University of Liberia | | | Competing conceptions of customary land rights registration (PFRs in Benin): Methodological, policy, and polity issues
P. Lavigne-Delville, Anthropologist, Senior Research Officer on Land Policies, Research (GRET) | | | Discussant | | J. Sanjak, Managing Director, MCC |
MC 9-100
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CAP3: Towards a broader perspective on land issues | | Chair
M. Mora, Secretariat for Political Affairs, Organization of American States | | Presentations | | | Where there is no government: Using community mechanisms for land rights enforcement
S. Joireman, Professor, Wheaton College | | | The effect of land market restrictions on employment pattern and wages: Evidence from Sri Lanka
F. Shilpi, Development Research Group, World Bank | | | Initial impacts of land reform in Malawi
X. del Carpio, Independent Evaluation Unit, World Bank
V. Hoffmann, Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics,
University of Maryland
| | Discussants | | | A. Zoomers, Professor, Utrecht University | | | C. Augustinus, Chief, Land Tenure & Property Administration, UN Habitat |
16:45 - 18:15 | Room | Session | | MC 13-121 | ACQ4: Large scale agricultural investment: Social, economic, and environmental impacts | | | Chair
I. Pswarayi-Riddihough, Sector Manager, Environment & NRM, Africa Region | | | Presentations | | Establishing a framework for transferring public land
M. Hernandez, Project Head Agriculture and Capital Market, Proinversion,
Peru | | | Whose land are you giving away, Mr. President?
L. Alden Wily, Independent Consultant, Nairobi | | | Plantation expansion in Papua, Indonesia: Likely impacts on the largest remaining forested lanscape in the Asia Pacific
K. Obidzinski, Scientist, CIFOR | | | | Discussants | | | J. Linsday, Senior Counsel, LEGEN, World Bank |
MC 2-800 |
GOV4: Reducing deforestation in the Amazon: Environemntal planning & consumer pressure | | | Chair
J. Ranganathan, Vice President of Science and Research, World Resources
Institute (WRI) | | | Presentations | | | Implementation and enforcement of environmental planning in Para: Lessons for others and next steps
J. Benatti, President, Instituto de Terras do Para (ITERPA), Para, Brazil | | | Integrating environmental and social sustainability into agricultural commodities value chains
L. F. Guedes Pinto, Executive Director, Imaflora, Brazil | | Discussants | | | M. Lundell, Sector Manager, LCSAR, World Bank
C. Klink, Agriculture Team Leader, The Nature Conservancy, Brazil |
MC 9-100 |
CAP4: Broader implications of land distribution and inequality: New evidence on old issues | | | Chair
G. Feder, IFPRI | | | Presentations | | | The far-reaching impact of land inequality on public good provision: Evidence from US counties
D. Vollrath, University of Houston | | | Do property titles increase credit access among the urban poor?
M. Torero, Director, Markets & Trade Division, IFPRI | | | Are there efficiency costs to continued land reform legislation? The case of West Bengal
S. Jin, Assistant Professor, Michigan State University | | | Discussant | | M. Goldstein, Senior Economist, World Bank | | J. Conning, Professor, City University of New York | | | | 18:15 – 19:00 pm | | Preston Auditorium | BOOK LAUNCH
| | | Opening remarks | | | J. Voegele, Director Agriculture & Rural Development, World Bank | | | Presentations | | | Land Administration for Sustainable Development
S. Enemark, Professor, Aalborg University, Denmark | | | Uncharted Territory: Land, Conflict and Humanitarian Action
S. Pantuliano, Head, Humanitarian Policy Group, Overseas Development
Institute (ODI), UK | | | One Billion Rising: Law, Land and the Alleviation of Global Poverty
T. Hanstad, President, Rural Development Institute (RDI) | | | Closing remarks | | | D. Gruscynski, Associate Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | | 18:30 – 21:00 pm | | Front Lobby | RECEPTION
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010
08:30 - 10:00
| Room | Session | | MC 13-121 | ACQ5: The policy framework governing large scale agricultural investments | | Chair
J. Howard, Executive Director, Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa | | | Presentations | | | Governance of large scale agricultural investments in Africa: The case of Ethiopia
I. Tamrat, Managing Director, Multi-Talent Consultancy PLC, Ethiopia | | Governance of large scale agricultural investments in Africa: The case of DRC
A. Mpoyi, Executive Director, Council for Environmental Defense by Legality
& Traceability | | | FDI in land and the need to establish a concession inventory: The case of Lao PDR
O. Schoenweger, Land Tenure Adviser, GTZ Laos | | Mainstreaming land observatories in Africa: Potential roles for regional organizations
I. Dare, Director, West African Economic and Monetary Union | | | Discussants | | | D. Gustafson, Director, FAO Liaison Office for North America | | K. Hornberger, Investment Policy & Promotion Specialist, IFC |
MC 2-800 |
GOV5: Options for low-cost registration in local regions: Lessons from recent experience | | | Chair
R. Pertev, Agriculture Policy Advisor, Global Donor Platform for Rural
Development | | | Presentations | | | Statutory recognition of customary land rights: Legal and empirical issues
R. Knight, Attorney, International Development Law Organization (IDLO),
Rome | | Pilot implementation of systematic low-cost demarcation in rural Tanzania
T. Burns, Land Equity International | | Using satellite data to secure rights and guide land use planning in India
Y. V. N. Krishnamurthy, Director, Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Hyderabad | | Discussant | | | D. Grusczynski, Associate Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
N. Taylor, Vice President, International Land Systems |
MC 9-100 |
CAP5: Land and conflict | | | Chair
C. Biebesheimer, Chief Counsel, LEGJR, World Bank | | | Presentations | | | Integrating land issues into post-conflict response: Case study evidence and implications
S. Pantuliano, Head, Humanitarian Policy Group, Overseas Development
Institute (ODI), UK | | | The contribution of land to recent violence in Kenya: Implications for the ongoing land policy dialogue
I. Mwathane, Director, Land Development & Governance Institute (LDGI), Kenya | | | Challenges for land administration in the Pacific
D. Adler, Governance Specialist and Rod Nixon, Consultant, World Bank | | Discussant | | | A. Norton, Lead Social Development Specialist, World Bank |
10:30 - 12:00
| Room | Session | | MC 13-121 | ACQ6: Large scale agricultural investment: Perspectives by different types of investors | | | Chair
S. Inoue, Deputy Director, Economic Security, Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
Government of Japan | | | Presentations | | | Can sustainability, social responsibility, and profitability be reconciled? A farm operator’s perspective
A. Preusche, Chairman, NFD Agro | | | Large farm agriculture in Africa: An institutional investor’s perspective
S. Payne, CEO, Emergent Asset Management | | Global developments in agricultural land markets
P. de Laperouse, Managing Director, HighQuest Partners LLC/Soyatech LLC | | | Farming in the Southern Cone: Sustainable development model
A. Lopez, Technical and Environment Manager, AdecoAgro | | Discussant | | | P. Labaste, Lead Agriculture Economist, World Bank |
MC 2-800 |
GOV6: Building capacity for land policy analysis: Moving towards South-South collaboration | | | Chair
S. Enemark, President, International Federation of Surveyors (FIG) | | | Presentations | | | Integration of land policies into CAADP roundtables: Evidence and implications for research
J. Kagwanja, Program Officer, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) | | | Fostering South-South collaboration in capacity building
M. Rukuni, Professor, University of Zimbabwe and COMESA | | | Land in the AERC’s program on agricultural economics: Key analytical issues
W. Kosura, Professor, University of Nairobi and African Economic Research
Council (AERC) | | | The role of land rights observatories in stimulating monitoring of trends
H. Ouedraogo, Land Policy Adviser, AU/ECA | | Discussants | | B. Koppers, Program Manager, East and West Africa, HTSPE Ltd. | | T. Pickardt, Land Management Adviser, German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) |
MC 9-100 |
CAP6: Impact of land administration interventions | | | Chair
W. Martin, Sector Manager, DECRG, World Bank | | | Presentations | | | Low cost titling in Africa: Land tenure regularization in Rwanda
E. Nkurunziza, Head, National Land Center, Republic of Rwanda and
A. Locke, Project Director, HTSPE | | | Land tenure reform in Rwanda: Pilot impacts and strategy for national roll-out
D. Ali, DECRG, World Bank | | | Long-term impacts from communal land rights registration: The case of Mexico’s ejido reform
M. Gonzalez-Navarro, Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research, UC Berkeley | | | Impact of land registration and certification on land border conflicts in Ethiopia
S. Holden, Professor, Norwegian University of Life Sciences | | Discussants | | | O. Larbi, Project Director, Ghana Land Administration Project,
Republic of Ghana |
13:30 - 15:00 | Room | Session | | MC 13-121 | ACQ7: Facilitating a fair deal: The role of civil society (and governments) | | | Chair
K. Pfeifer, Head of Research, OXFAM America | | | Presentations | | The potential (and limitations) of civil society to help secure community rights: Lessons from Peru
M. Benavides, Sub-director, Instituto de Bien Comun (IBC), Peru | | | Governance of large scale agricultural investments in Africa: The case of Zambia
A. Mulolwa, Professor, University of Zambia | | | Towards sustainable biofuel development: Assessing the local impacts of large scale foreign land acquisitions in Ghana
G. Schoneveld, Associate Expert, Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) | | | Discussants | | | N. Marquez, Executive Director, Asian NGO Coalition for Agrarian Reform &
Rural Development | | | H. Liversage, Land Tenure Adviser, IFAD |
MC 2-800 |
GOV7: Land in the urban agenda | | Chair
R. Buckley, Managing Director, Rockefeller Foundation | | | Presentations | | | Using land registration as a tool to generate municipal revenue: Lessons from Bogota
F. Ruiz, Head of Valuation, S. Soler, Chief IT Officer, & G. Vallejo, City of Bogota | | | Land in the World Bank’s urban strategy: Implications for technical and financial support
R. Rajack, Senior Urban Development Specialist, FEUUR, World Bank | | | Long-term prospects in land and tenure in sub-Saharan Africa
A. Durand-Lasserve, Director of Research, National Centre of Scientific
Research, France | | | Revising urban planning laws in South Africa and Zambia: Implementation and impacts
S. Berrisford, Consultant, University of Cape Town & University of Sheffield | | | Discussants | | | R. Sietchiping, Global Land Tool Network Project Officer, UN-Habitat |
MC 9-100 |
CAP7: Will corporate farming eliminate smallholder agriculture? Towards a research agenda | | | Chair
M. Cackler, Sector Manager, ARD, World Bank | | | Presentations | | Large vs. small scale agriculture: Towards a conceptual framework and research agenda
D. Byerlee, World Bank | | Land availablity and investments for sustainable (agricultural) development in food insecure countries
M. Shah, Program Director, Qatar National Food Security Program | | The emergence of large scale agricultural production in Ukraine: Lessons and perspectives
A. Lissitsa, President, Ukrainian Agribusiness Club | | | Discussant | | | A. Engel, Division Chief Agriculture, GTZ |
15:30 - 17:00
| Room | Session | | Preston Auditorium | ACQ8: Standards & contracts: Can they ensure RAI contributes to food security and sustainability | | | Chair
E. Cousin, United States Ambassador to the United Nations Food Agencies | | | Presentations | | | | | | Lessons from EITI’s governance structure for responsible agricultural investment
A. Ravat, Program Manager, EITI, World Bank | | | Regulating land acquisition: What are the risks and how well do existing standards address them?
R. de Man, International consultant, Sustainable Business Development | | | Enforcing industry codes of conduct: Challenges and lessons from other sectors
W. Kiene, Former Chairman of the World Bank Inspection Panel (2007-2009) | | | Discussants | | | A. Ries, Head, Programme on Food Security, Swiss Agency for
Development & Cooperation
J. Mooney, Food Aid Business Manager, Olam America |
MC 13-121 |
GOV8: The role of land administration in facilitating a low-carbon development strategy: Guyana | | | Chair
M. Bukuru, Chief of UNCCD Liaison office, United Nations Headquarters | | | Presentations | | | Guyana’s low carbon development strategy (LCDS): Key issues and challenges
A. Bishop, Adviser on Land and Environment, Guyana Forest Service | | | The role of land administration in facilitating a LCDS: Process in Guyana and broader lessons
M. Childress, Senior Land Adminsitration Specialist, World Bank | | How can clean development become economically attractive? Role of the Forest Carbon Partnership Fund
K. Andrasko, Senior Methodology Specialist, ENVCF, World Bank | | | Discussant | | | J. Munoz, Lead Rural Development Specialist, ARD, World Bank |
MC 9-100 |
CAP8: Improving natural resource tenure | | | Chair
J. Hatcher, Manager, Global Programs, Rights and Resources Initiative | | | Presentations | | | Micro-effects of forest tenure reform in China
X. Jintao, Professor, Peking University | | Improving land tenure security in Uganda: Initial evidence
R. Meinzen-Dick, IFPRI and C. Doss, Yale University | | | Natural resource tenure reform in the context of climate change: Evidence and emerging hypotheses
M. Kirk, Professor, University of Marburg, Germany | | | Discussants | | | Alemu Mekonnen, Addis Ababa University |
17:15 - 18:00
| Room | Session | | Preston Aud | Official Closing | | | Action points: Next Steps | | | Chair: I. Bjork-Kleuby | | | Land scale agricultural investment
A. Ries & L. Hitimana | | | Land governance
H. Ouedraogo & R. Birner | | | Research and capacity building
J. Kagwanja & G. Kohlin | | | Closing address | | K. Deininger, Land Tenure Adviser, ARD, World Bank |
FOLLOW UP EVENTS Wednesday, April 28, 2010 09:00 - 12:00
| 1st Meeting of FAO Advisory Committee on Voluntary Guidelines for Land and Natural Resources (by invitation only) |
09:00 - 17:00
| International Workshop on Expanding Urban Land Supply:
What Works? |
9:00 – 10:15
MC 9-100 | Greeting the 800 pound gorilla on the way in: Understanding the political economy of constrained urban land access
Chair:
B. Levy, Advisor, PRMPS, World Bank (tbc) Presentations:
The Case of Nairobi
P. Ngau, Chairman, Dept. of Urban and Regional Planning, University of
Nairobi, Kenya and J. Klopp, Assistant Professor of International and
Public Affairs at Columbia University, NY
The Case of Mumbai
A. Pethe, Director, Dept. of Economics, University of Mumbai, India and
S. Barhate, Consultant, World Bank
Discussants:
J. Ahmad, Sector Manager, AFTUW, World Bank
| 10:30 – 12:15
MC 9-100 | How to expand urban land supply through direct intervention? Chair: N. V. Jagannathan, Sector Manager, EASIN, World Bank (tbc)
Presentations:
Is land pooling viable for broader application?
S. Ballaney, Environmental Planning Collaborative, Ahmedabad
Is it feasible to establish Rights of Way for future city expansion?
R. Goethert, Professor, MIT & G. Arboleda, Independent Housing
Consultant
How to make auctions of public land successful?
O. Kaganova , Senior Research Associate, Urban Institute
Discussants:
T. Keicho, Senior Urban Environment Specialist, SASDU, World Bank
A. Ortiz, Senior Urban Economist, MNSUR, World Bank (tbc) | 12:30 – 2:00
MC 9-100 | Book Launch: Urban Land Markets Chair: Z. Allaoua, Director, FEU, World Bank
Presentations:
Improving Land Management for Successful Urbanization
S. Lall, Senior Economist, FEUUR, World Bank
Discussants:
G. Ingram, CEO and President, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
M. Fay, Chief Economist, SDNVP, World Bank | | 14:30 – 15:45 MC 9-100 | Digging deeper into the tool box: What works, where? Chair: W. Cobbett, Program Manager, Cities Alliance
Presentations:
Experience with less conventional land policy tools and regulatory simplification
G. K. Payne, Geoffrey Payne and Associates, London
What should today's Sites and Services projects look like?
R. Chavez, Consultant, World Bank
Discussants:
C. Augustinus, Chief, Land Tenure & Property Administration, UN Habitat
(tbc) |
Parallel Working Groups to Finalize Policy Notes | | 16:00 - 17:00 | Facilitators:
Transferable Development Rights
R. Buckley, Managing Director, Rockefeller Foundation
Guided Land Development
R. Chavez, Consultant, World Bank
Community Land Trusts
A. Durand-Lasserve, Senior Fellow, CNRS, Paris
Land Pooling
S. Ballaney, Environmental Planning Collaborative, Ahmedabad | 17:00 – 17:30
MC 9-100 | Next Steps Chair: A. Joshi-Ghani, Economics and Urban Development, World Bank
Short Report from Breakout Sessions
R. Buckley, R. Chavez, A. Durand-Lasserve, S. Ballaney
Next Steps
R. Rajack, Senior Urban Development Specialist, FEUUR, World Bank |
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