International Conference on Land Governance & Future Challenges
Please register using the form at the bottom of this website until 3 May, 2024.
Call for Participation: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LAND GOVERNANCE AND FUTURE CHALLENGES
June 4 – 5, 2024 Peace Academy Rhineland-Palatinate, University of Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany
Inclusive and coordinated land governance plays a key role in addressing climate change-induced stress, providing sustainable livelihoods, and guaranteeing legal certainty over land for communities and investors. Land governance tends to be complex, contested, and is deeply entrenched in sociopolitical interrelations and power structures at national and local levels. This conference aims to critically look at land governance changes with a special focus on sustainability and climate change, inclusivity and gender equality, land contestation, and related (future) challenges.
The conference is organized by Anne Hennings and Christopher Rohles as part of the project "Tug of War - Customary and State Actors in Land Reform and their Impact on Human Security in Post-Conflict Societies“ at the Peace Academy Rhineland-Palatinate, University of Kaiserslautern-Landau.
Register until 3 May, 2024 using the form at the bottom of this website. Please note that travel and accommodation costs, as well as lunch and dinner, need to be covered by the participants. We look forward to welcoming you to Landau and bringing together and advancing perspectives and innovative approaches to responsible and sustainable land governance.
If you have any questions contact us via e-mail at tugofwar[at]projects.rptu.de.
The Organizing Team
Anne Hennings and Christopher Rohles
University of Kaiserslautern-Landau, Landau
Program
09:00- 09:15: Welcome & Introduction Anne Hennings & Gregor Walter-Drop |
Keynote 09:15-10:15 Katharina Löhr Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Müncheberg, Germany |
Coffee Break 10:15-10:35 |
PANEL 1: Towards gender equality: women's struggles in agriculture and land governance (Chair: tbc) 10:35 – 11:50 |
Gender equality and land reform in Ghana: Insights from women's access to irrigation land in Garu Millicent A. Akaateba SD Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies, Wa, Ghana |
Women farmers’ strategies to enhanced cocoa production: an Ivorian perspective Claudia Coral Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Müncheberg, Germany & Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany |
Women’s empowerment and climate adaptation: Do joint land titles promote food security of households facing extreme weather events in Tanzania? Tim Christian Wegenast University of Konstanz, Germany |
Lunch Break at Velo |
PANEL 2: Challenges of inclusive forest governance (Chair: Katharina Löhr) 13:45 – 15:00 |
Transforming charcoal sectors for just and sustainable energy futures Frank Kwaku Agyei Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana |
Participation in governance of protected areas? The case of Mapuche and peasant communities in southern Chile Alejandro Mora, Till Stellmacher & Guillermo Pacheco Habert Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Germany |
Interrogating the future of land in coal regions: Mine closure and just transition planning in India’s energy centre Sarthak Shukla Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden |
Coffee Break 15:00-15:20 |
PANEL 3: Navigating climate change adaptation and sustainable transitions in land use (Chair: Jan Sändig) 15:20 – 17:00 |
Clarifying land tenure rights, the challenge of forest and landscape restoration in Madagascar Harifidy Rakoto Ratsimba Higher School of Agronomic Sciences, University of Antananarivo, Madagascar |
Understanding the nexus between climate change and farmer-herder conflicts in the semi-arid region of Ghana Elias Danyi Kuusaana Simon Diedong Dombo University for Business and Integrated Development Studies, Wa, Ghana |
Climate-driven effects of agricultural land potential on conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa Lisa Murken Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany |
Assess the positive deviants of agroforestry as forest landscape restoration practices from local knowledge in Irodo watershed Hamy Raharinaivo Higher School of Agronomic Sciences, University of Antananarivo, Madagascar & Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Müncheberg, Germany |
18:30: Dinner at Jouls |
09:00 – 09:10: Recap Anne Hennings & Christopher Rohles |
PANEL 4: Land disputes, contestation, and conflict resolution (Chair: tbc) 09:15 – 11:00 |
Unravelling home-grown dispossession: Elite coalitions and institutional dynamics of land grabs Courage Bakasa University of Witten/Herdecke, Germany |
Security risks and the role of customary governance in post-conflict land reform Anne Hennings & Christopher Rohles Peace Academy Rhineland-Palatinate, University of Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany |
Land Disputes and Forced Displacements of Maldhari Pastoral Communities in the Gir Forests, India: A Conflict of Worldviews Smit Rajshekhar Patel EduCARE NGO, Kangra, India |
Framings and practices of engagement: Struggles over Chinese investment projects in Africa Jan Sändig University of Bayreuth, Germany |
| Coffee Break 11:00 – 11:20 |
11:20 – 12:00: Conclusion & Outlook Anne Hennings & Christopher Rohles |
13:00: Lunch (optional) |
Location & Arrival
Arrival
From Landau (Pfalz) Hbf (Main Station):
- 30 min walking distance
- Bus 531, 540, or 590 until Station “Uni/ Alter Messplatz”, ca. 7 min ride
From Landau (Pfalz) West:
- 15 min walking distance
- Parking possibilities directly at Butenschoen Campus (limited)
- Closeby parking lot at “Alter Messplatz” (10 min walking) + Electric car charging station
Coming from the A65:
Leave the highway at the Landau Nord exit and follow the signs to "Landau". Take the 2nd exit at the traffic circle and follow the road for approx. 4 km. Then turn left into Hans-Boner-Straße (last street before the town sign). Follow the left turn into Eichbornstraße and then take the second sharp left into Luitpoldstraße. Turn left again at the next street. The conference center is at the end of the street on the right-hand side.