UNDP Oslo Governance Centre

Land Governance and Emerging
Development Agendas: Legal Empowerment,
Climate Change and Food Security.

24-25 November 2008:
Oslo, Norway - Workshop on: Land Governance and Emerging Development Agendas: Legal Empowerment, Climate Change and Food Security.

The Workshop brought together academic and policy experts, UNDP practitioners from selected country offices, and BDP policy advisors to deepen understandings of how emerging development agendas relate to land governance and how country level engagements could be strengthened to provide a meaningful response.

Workshop documents

• Workshop agenda and background
  
  
• List of Participants
  
  
• Background paper: land resource Governance in support of the MDG’s
  
  
  • Part I: A Survey of Discourse, Challenges and Opportunities
  • Part II: Learning from the Field, Global survey of UNDP Engagement

Presentations in Plenary, 24 November

• Land governance and emerging development agendas: an introduction,
  Ruben de Koning (Research Associate, UNDP, OGC)
  
  
• Coping with Climate Change: The Role of Property Rights and Collective Action, Ruth Meinzen-Dick (Coordinator, CGIAR system wide Program on Collective Action and Property Rights and Senior Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute)
  
  
• Land Policies for improved land governance, food security and poverty reduction: Lessons from the AU-ECA-AfDB Land Policy Initiative, Joan Kagwanja (Economic Affairs
  Officer, UN Economic Commission for Africa)
  
  
• Secure access to land for food security, Michael Taylor (Programme Manager Land Policy and Africa, International Land Coalition, ILC)
  
  
• Secure rights to property & legal empowerment of the poor, Karol Boudreaux (George Mason University/Mercatus Center Arlington, VA USA)
  
  
• Options for secure tenure for the poor in the urban centres of developing countries,
  Carole Rakodi (International Development Department, University of Birmingham), with Geoff Payne and Alain Durand-Lasserve
  
  
• Key features of ‘pro-poor’ land policy & democratic land governance, Saturnino (‘Jun’) M. Borras Jr. (Canada Research Chair in Int’l Dev. Studies Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, N.S., Canada)
  
  
• Human rights, development and agrofuel, Asbjørn Eide (Chairman, FAO panel of experts on ethics in food and agriculture)

Presentations in Working Groups, 25 November

• Farmers Land Rights in China, Li Ping - Rural Development Institute
  
  
• Land Degradation: Some highlights from Tanzania, Bartholomew Lyimo - UNDP-UNEP CDM Capacity Development, Tanzania
  
  
• Land Tenure and Food Security Issue
  
  
• Reduction of Natural Resource-Based Conflict, Mohy El Deen El Tohami Taha (Programme officer, UNDP Sudan)

Presentations in TerrAfrica side meeting

• Mainstreaming land tenure into Terrafrica

Disclaimer: The views expressed in these presentations are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their organizations, the United Nations, including UNDP, or UN Member States