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World Bank Land Conference 2024—Research Track

Innovative Research on Land Governance


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The World Bank Land Conference 2024 took place May 13-17, 2024 at World Bank Headquarters in Washington, DC and is the premier forum for the land sector, bringing together participants from governments, development partners, civil society, academia, and the private sector to showcase good practice, discuss issues, and inform evidence-based policy dialogue. As part of this event, the Research Track featured innovative innovative research on all aspects of land governance and its links to shared economic growth, resilience, and poverty reduction.

While the event is now over, a comprehensive set of event materials are available, including recordings of all sessions and presentations for most sessions. Presentations can be accessed by clicking on the session titles in the conference program below, while recordings can be accessed by clicking on "Recording" underneath the session title. 

Monday, May 13, 2024

1:30 - 3:00pm

Land policies for resilient and equitable growth in Africa

Recording

Tuesday, May 14, 2024

 MC 13-121MC 9-100MC 8-100MC 7-100
8:00 - 10:00am

Using new spatial data to assess land use & household welfare

Recording

Gender-differentiated impacts of land tenure security in Africa

Recording

Lessons from evaluating titling interventions and implications for the future

Recording

Land and labor markets

Recording

10:30am - 12:30pm

Policies to improve housing affordability

Recording

Documenting and harnessing the multiple benefits from forests

Recording

Do institutional design and state capacity affect demand for property title and sustainability?

Recording

Key issues affecting rural structural transformation

Recording

1:30 - 3:30pm 

Can property taxation help achieve equity & efficiency objectives?

Recording

Climate shocks and agricultural households’ resilience

Recording

Can lower-cost approaches to rural land titling increase tenure security?

Recording

Exploring the links between land and conflict

Recording

4:00 - 6:00pm

Challenges of urban planning

Recording

Rural factor markets and structural transformation

Recording

Developing financial instruments to make climate mitigation pay

Recording

Gendered impacts of land titling

Recording

Wednesday May 15, 2024

 MC 13-121MC 9-100MC 8-100MC 7-100
8:00 - 10:00am

Local authorities, tenure security, and structural transformation

Recording

Evidence on policies to improve forest and nature conservation

Recording

Using new data to inform urban policies: Bridging the gap between theory and practice

Recording

Technical issues in African land administration

Recording

10:30am - 12:30pm

Exploring ways to improve land market functioning & rural land use efficiency

Recording

Factors affecting the performance of land markets

Recording 

Improving effectiveness of documenting land rights in Africa

Recording

Land use and conflict

Recording

1:30 - 3:30pm

Demand for and potential impact of land titling in Africa

Recording

Increasing the scope for positive outcomes from LSLBI

Recording

Institutional arrangements to facilitate access to housing

Recording

Assessing the impacts of large-scale land acquisition

Recording

4:00 - 6:00pm

Broader impacts of land titling

Recording

Determinants and impacts of land reform implementation

Recording

Causes and consequences of informality in peri-urban land markets

Recording

 

Thursday May 16, 2024

 MC 13-121MC 9-100MC 8-100MC 7-100
8:00 - 10:00am

Navigating trade-offs between land use change, sustainability, and conflict

Recording

Determinants and effects of climate-smart agricultural practices

Recording

Using property taxation as basis for a social contract

Recording

 
10:30am - 12:30pm

Determinants and impacts of redistributive land reform

Recording

Proper measurement of land size and land quality

Recording

New ways of land valuation for effective property taxation

Recording

Learn how open geospatial generative ai models are being used to track deforestation, illegal mining, and other environmental crises

Recording

1:30 - 3:30pm

Addressing risk of climate change in rural area

Recording

Effects of land registration on functioning of rural factor markets

Recording

Addressing the challenges of putting property tax reform in practice

Recording

 
4:00 - 6:00pm

Using Data and Research to Address Land Governance Issues

Recording

   

 

 

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Land Policies for Resilient and Equitable Growth in Africa Flagship Report

Land institutions and policies will be critical to help African countries respond to challenges of climate change, urban expansion, structural transformation, and gender equality. Together, they affect urban dwellers’ ability to access productive jobs, live in decent housing, and breathe clean air; farmers’ and women entrepreneurs’ capacity to insure against shocks, increase productivity, and diversify income sources; and governments’ ability to plan, tax property to provide services, and manage public land in a way that provides sustained local benefits by attracting investment, including via climate finance. Yet, many African land registries command little trust due to poor performance and wealth bias in service delivery.

Land Policies for Resilient and Equitable Growth in Africa draws on a wealth of data, examples, and studies from Africa and beyond to show that regulatory and institutional reforms can harness this potential by improving quality, coverage, usefulness, and sustainability of documented land rights. In doing so, these reforms create the informational foundation for sectoral policies to support job growth, structural transformation, and climate resilience.

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