LARGE-SCALE LAND ACQUISITION IN THE CONTEXT OF URBANIZATION AND CLIMATE CHANGE:
LINKING THE RURAL AND THE URBAN
The ‘global land rush’ has been analysed extensively in recent years, focusing in particular on the rural sphere: Similar processes, however, take place in the urban and peri-urban spheres where ongoing and rapid population growth, land scarcity as well as financial and speculative imperatives have caused an unprecedented surge of investments related to land. This urban land rush, and the resulting transformation of urban and peri-urban landscapes and livelihoods, has so far received scant attention in the debates surrounding the global land rush. This conference therefore considered the global land rush in the context of rapid urbanisation and climate change.
On this page you can find materials from the LANDac Annual International Conference 2016 available for download.
New: blogpost by Geoffrey Payne, key note speaker at the LANDac conference, based on his contribution during the opening of the conference – AVAILABLE HERE
New: News article (in Dutch) about the conference in OneWorld Research – AVAILABLE HERE
New: first Powerpoint presentations from plenary and parallel sessions – AVAILABLE HERE
The LANDac Annual International Conference 2016 took place on 30 June and 1 July in the Muntgebouw in Utrecht. The conference drew over 150 participants from all continents, including academics, students, policy makers, practitioners and private sector representatives. On this website you can find that latest information about the conference: final book of abstracts, Powerpoint presentations for download and other follow-up activities, including blogs and news articles about the 2-day event.
‘Land governance in the context of urbanisation and climate change: Linking the rural and the urban’
The 2016LANDac Annual International Land Conference ‘Land governance in the context of urbanisation and climate change: Linking the rural and the urban’ took place on Thursday 30 June and Friday 1 July in Utrecht, the Netherlands (Muntgebouw). The conference built on the success of the 2015 International Conference in which LANDac brought together stakeholders from around the world, from a variety of backgrounds. The 2016 conference focuses on topics related to rural-urban land governance and climate change.
LANDac Conference 2016
LARGE-SCALE LAND ACQUISITION IN THE CONTEXT OF URBANIZATION AND CLIMATE CHANGE:
LINKING THE RURAL AND THE URBAN
The ‘global land rush’ has been analysed extensively in recent years, focusing in particular on the rural sphere: Similar processes, however, take place in the urban and peri-urban spheres where ongoing and rapid population growth, land scarcity as well as financial and speculative imperatives have caused an unprecedented surge of investments related to land. This urban land rush, and the resulting transformation of urban and peri-urban landscapes and livelihoods, has so far received scant attention in the debates surrounding the global land rush. This conference therefore considered the global land rush in the context of rapid urbanisation and climate change.
On this page you can find materials from the LANDac Annual International Conference 2016 available for download.
Call for abstracts: Call for abstracts 2016
Book of abstracts: Offical LANDac Conference 2016 Book of Abstracts
Programme: LANDac Conference Programme 2016 FINAL
PRESENTATIONS
Thursday KEY NOTES
Key note contribution Geoffrey Payne Geoffrey Payne – PDF
(Please also find Geoffrey’s blogpost at the Land Portal website through this link: Blogpost LANDac 2016)
Key note contribution João Carrilho Joao Carrilho – PDF
Key note contribution Roberto RoccoRoberto Rocco – PDF
Key note contribution Malovika Pawar Malovika Pawar – PDF
Friday KEY NOTES
Key note contribution Theo de Jager Theo de Jager – PDF
Key note contribution Jean du Plessis Jean du Plessis – PDF
TRACK I – URBAN AND INFRASTRUCTURE
MEGACITIES
Forced demolitions of informal settlements in Dar Es Salaam – Agustina Alvarez
Informal housing in Chinese cities – Li Sun
Spaces of transformation – Land use changes and urban developments in Khartoum, Sudan – Griet Steel
Transforming urban South Africa en masse – An exploration of the new ‘Mega Settlements Projects’ in the Gauteng Province, South Africa – Mark Oranje
The Concept of Inclusive Densification – Robert Lautenbach, WeLoveTheCity
EMERGING CITIES AND RURAL URBANIZATION
Analyzing urban growth in Mozambican cities – Els Keunen & Carolina Lunetta
Land acquisitions, power games and challenges in the urbanization of two rural districts of Mozambique – Uacitissa Mandamule
New rural urban locations in Angola and Mozambique – Border towns, mining towns and the urban sprawl – Cristina Udelsmann Rodrigues
Rural-urban dynamics and regional development in Sub-Saharan Africa – Some key policy areas – Griet Steel
PERI-URBAN DYNAMICS
Large-scale land acquisitions in peri-urban areas – A spatial analysis of Sub-Saharan Africa – Sara Balestri
Promoting responsible investment in Bagamoyo – Elisa Mandelli
Towards an analysis of the consequences of large-scale land invsetments in the rural-urban nexus – Francesca Marzatico
INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT
Compulsory acquisition = compulsory just terms – Ken Rayner
Defending social and environmental justice – Land grabbing in the context of Nicaragua’s interoceanic Gran Canal – Elyne Doornbos
How investment in large-scale irrigation infrastructure should optimize benefits for local smallholder rice farmers and inclusive food markets in Mozambique – Danny Wijnhoud
Impacts of Economic and Political Power of Soybean Agro Industries in local communities of Brazilian Midwest – Rafael Pastre
Large scale infrastructure development in conflict and post conflict – Examples from South Sudan – Francesca Marzatico
Megaprojects, exclusion and governance – D. Delphine
The livelihood impacts of the large-scale industrial development in emerging peri-urban Jakarta – Miya Irawati
With or without international institutions – Land acquisition for infrastructure projects in Timor Leste – Bernardo Almeida
TRACK II – CONFLICT AND ELITES
VIOLENT URBANIZATION
Claim-making, violence and (the politics of) land governance – Gemma van der Haar
Conflict related displacement fosters urbanisation – Lessons learned from five post-conflict cases – Dimo Todorovski and Jaap Zevenbergen
Displacement and the politics of belonging in urban Malawi – Tanja Hendriks
Small towns and rural growth centres as strategic spaces of control in Rwanda’s post-conflict trajectory – Ine Cottyn
URBAN ELITES AND PROPERTY RELATIONS
Elite capture of rural land – the case of Kitchanga – Gillian Mathys
Reopening property relations – reordering the state in South Sudan – Mathijs van Leeuwen
TRACK III – LIVELIHOODS AND FOOD SECURITY
CHANGING LANDSCAPES AND LIVELIHOODS
Human impacts and urbanisation effects of land acquisitions in India – Nadine Walicki
Policy and practice – Land governance of the forest state enterprise in the Kyrgyz Republic – Tadashi Shimizu
FOOD SECURITY
FDI – A focus on Kenya’s agribusiness – James Wangu
Food security impacts of value chain frontiers in Ethiopia – Kebede Manjur
Foreign agribusiness investments and local food security in Ethiopia – Senait Worku
Hydropower-induced displacement in Central Vietnam – Klaske de Vries
The bittersweet taste of urban expansion and its effect on food security in Hue’s peri-urban areas – Laila Bouallouch
TRACK IV – CLIMATE CHANGE AND LAND ADMINISTRATION
CLIMATE CHANGE AND PROPERTY RIGHTS
Climate change, land grabbing and human mobility – Insights from Senegal and Cambodia – Sara Vigil
Farmland investment strategies and risk in Romania – Anna Hajdu and Oane Visser
Socio-economic losses induced by land subsidence in Indonesia – Erlis Saputra
THE GARUDA PROJECT, INDONESIA
National capital integrated coastal development – SWECO – Alex Hekman
The Garuda project in Jakarta – A dike to fight the consequences of urbanisation and climate change – Meine Pieter van Dijk
LAND ADMINISTRATION AND SMART SOLUTIONS
A tale of two cases – Linking land use, tenure and consolidation in Rwanda – Rohan Bennett and Innocent Rubanje
An experience of regularization private urban in Brazil – The case of Terra Nova – Ana Bueno
An insight into a property rights definition – From clans to countries – Ken Rayner
Integrated management of urban and rural land by public authorities – The case of Benin – Elisabeth Wunderle
Is the attribution of value a precursor to the establishment of land and property rights – James Kavanagh
Land administration and smart solutions – Fit for purpose country implementation – Kees de Zeeuw
Land market dynamics on an expanding frontier – Gabriel Pansani Siqueira
LAND GOVERNANCE: THE CASE OF INDONESIA
Bridging the gap between participatory mapping and government registrations in Indonesia – Peter Laarakker
TRACK V – POLICY AND PRACTICE
HUMAN CITIES COALITION
An exploratory engagement on the need for and prospect of the emergence of ‘coalitions of the willing’ in the Gauteng Province, South Africa – Mark Oranje
Forming coalitions of the willing – Marius Stehouwer
Relational contract theory – Menno van der Veen
SCALING URBAN LAND GOVERNANCE: FROM GLOBAL TO LOCAL
Civil Society Coalition on Land (CICOL) – Ebenezer Kyei Bediako
Expropriation and the voluntary guidelines – Leon Verstappen
Governance systems in large-scale land acquisitions in Ethiopia and Tanzania – Atakilte Beyene
The open data revolution – Transforming the landscape for land governance data – Laura Meggiolaro
COMMUNAL LAND RIGHTS AND COLLECTIVE ACTION
Bolivian provincial town residents and the defence of communal land rights at the turn of the 20th century – Hanne Cottyn
Exploring the potential of communal land titling – The risks of treating communities as homogeneous entities – Filipe de Matteo
The formalisation of communal land rights in Namibia – A possible counteraction to urbanisation – Elke Matthaei
The Global Call to Action on Indigenous and Community Land Rights – Land Rights Now – Luca Miggiano
New: blogpost by Geoffrey Payne, key note speaker at the LANDac conference, based on his contribution during the opening of the conference – AVAILABLE HERE
New: News article (in Dutch) about the conference in OneWorld Research – AVAILABLE HERE
New: first Powerpoint presentations from plenary and parallel sessions – AVAILABLE HERE
The LANDac Annual International Conference 2016 took place on 30 June and 1 July in the Muntgebouw in Utrecht. The conference drew over 150 participants from all continents, including academics, students, policy makers, practitioners and private sector representatives. On this website you can find that latest information about the conference: final book of abstracts, Powerpoint presentations for download and other follow-up activities, including blogs and news articles about the 2-day event.
Conference documents available for download:
FINAL programme 30 June-1 July
BOOK OF ABSTRACTS
The 2016 LANDac Annual International Land Conference ‘Land governance in the context of urbanisation and climate change: Linking the rural and the urban’ took place on Thursday 30 June and Friday 1 July in Utrecht, the Netherlands (Muntgebouw). The conference built on the success of the 2015 International Conference in which LANDac brought together stakeholders from around the world, from a variety of backgrounds. The 2016 conference focuses on topics related to rural-urban land governance and climate change.
Conference content
The call for abstracts has been closed. The call is available here: Call for abstracts – extended deadline
Conference organizers: Annelies Zoomers (UU-IDS), Guus van Westen (UU-IDS), Gemma Betsema (LANDac), Lucy Oates (LANDac)
Panel organizers: Gemma van der Haar (WUR-SDC), Mayke Kaag (African Studies Centre), Kei Otsuki (UU-IDS), Patrick Witte (UU-Urban and regional planning), Murtah Read (UU-IDS), Emiel Wegelin (UrbAct), Alioune Badiane (UN Habitat), Marius Stehouwer (Lift Cities), Inge Kok Postma (Lift Cities), Femke van Noorloos (UU-IDS), Thomas Hartmann (UU-Urban and regional planning), Fennie van Straalen (UU- UU-Urban and regional planning), Jur Schuurman (UU/ LANDac), Ore Fika (IHS), Mathijs van Leeuwen (ASC/ CICAM), Gillian Mathys (Universiteit Gent), Karen Buscher (Universiteit Gent), Griet Steel (UU-IDS), Paul van Lindert (UU-IDS), Michelle Nuijen (UU-IDS), Mirjam Ros-Tonen (UvA-AISSR), UU Future Deltas Programme and others.