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ILDC 2022 Agenda 09th Dec 2022
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09 DEC 2022
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 Mr. Ishan AgrawalGeneral Manager-Programs, Foundation for Ecological Security (FES) |
Mr. Smiti Sahoo |
Mr. Steven Lawry |
Mr. Sanjoy Patnaik |
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Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) mechanisms have been emerging as a dominant theme in the recent past for ensuring support for conservation efforts in the longer run. In the context of carbon markets, especially, PES mechanisms have evolved several models of payments for those who are sequestering carbon. This assumes importance, especially for indigenous and rural communities.
The lives and lifestyles of indigenous local communities are intrinsically linked with the natural environments that they live in. Their relationship with their surrounding natural resources defines their economic, social and cultural systems. Their experiential knowledge of the ecosystem is gained through long-standing connections to the land. It is their primary source of food, medicine, fuelwood, livestock grazing, construction material, welfare, security, culture and spirituality (Veit, 2021).
Civil society has invested heavily in helping communities across India to build the local knowledge and capacity necessary for people to collectively agree on and implement land use practices that contribute to better conservation outcomes locally. This work has resulted in better-managed soils, water, and forests, and importantly, additional but uncounted carbon sequestration and other intangible ecological services in rural areas across India.
In a year long inquiry, FES has identified three key barriers for communities to benefit from PES mechanisms, especially for carbon. There are a) barriers to their agency, b) to the knowledge and c) lack of equitable platforms. Lack of secured tenure and lack of recognition of community institutions and stewardship by the market creates disincentives for communities to participate in the PES markets. Their knowledge or wisdom behind the land-use patterns is not recognized. While they are the ones who need to learn about complex evidence building for ecosystem service payments. Moreover, there is no level playing field between people and the market players.
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 Mr. Gunanka D.B, IFSJoint Secretary, Department of Planning and Additional Project Director, Meghalaya Community Based Forest Management and Livelihood Improvement Project, MBDA, Shillong |  Mr. K.Hrishikesh SinghAsstt. Chief Technical Advisor, Community Forestry and Water Conservation Society Manipur (COSFOM), Manipur | ||
Mr. Arun Kumar Bansal, IFS |
Mr. C.L. Das, IFS | ||
|  Mr. Senthil Kumar, IFSProject Director (HRD), NFMP (JICA), Nagaland | ||
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Dr. Vincent Darlong | ||
Mr. Anurag Gupta | |||
Land has been a source of contention for indigenous peoples living in the Eastern Himalayan region, which encompasses North East India, Nepal, Bhutan, and Myanmar. In these hill areas, the land tenure system is generally controlled by customary rules, which differs greatly from the system that prevails in other regions.
The influence of both endogenous and exogenous factors has gradually diminished access to land resources by the indigenous communities. With most of the land falling under customary ownership, the prevailing formal legal system has made the indigenous tribes as encroachers of the land that they have cultivating for generations. Lack of access to and rights over land remained a barrier to avail essential public services including compensation for land acquisition and rehabilitation. Concerns such as land alienation, involuntary relocation and a lack of effective rehabilitation remain neglected and/or side lined in absence of appropriate land policy.
On the other hand, within the community-held land, which traditionally had been accessed as ‘CPR’ are now increasingly being fragmented and privatised following expansion of government schemes of plantation crops such as rubber, tea, arecanut, etc. While these schemes are accessed by the better off households within the community, shrinking of CPR are affecting land accessed by the poor with emerging inequalities within the indigenous communities. In some cases, even water, considered as CPR, is being privatised (as the source of water is located in the private land). Sensitization of the need for protecting the CPR has been agenda of some of the externally-aided projects, experiences of which would be flagged in this session.
The region is rich in biodiversity but vulnerable to anthropogenic pressures. The region is also host to growing number of rural poor who are dependent on forest and ecosystem services for their livelihood. Local and global efforts to integrate poverty alleviation and biodiversity conservation in the Eastern Himalayas remain challenging but with promising opportunities as well as pockets of emerging localised success stories. To eliminate the regional inequalities, while respective country government and bilateral/ multilateral agencies such as JICA, KFW, IFAD, World Bank etc are investing in the region with focus on infrastructure development, natural resources management, livelihoods improvement, financial inclusion etc., lack of rights over land causing economic loss for the indigenous communities and the conflicts continues to remain due to unclear policy for reaping the benefits from these long term investments. In addition, concerns such as land alienation, compulsory displacement due to infrastructure development projects, and a lack of appropriate rehabilitation are also ignored and/or abandoned while creating land policy.
This session will primarily explore how economic transformations induce the reinterpretation of customary relationships to land, as well as highlight the critical issues and challenges that the communities face due to a lack of clear land ownership, and how they adopt, resist or negotiate with these challenges. In addition, the session will also explore existing practices and possibilities for adapting global soft laws around land viz. Fit for For Purpose (FFP), VGGT, Responsible Investment Guidelines and Technology aided Formalization influence the southern land governance.
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Senior Research Associate CPR |
|  Ms Lara Shankar Chandra |
The lack of affordable access to land and the housing crisis remain issues of concern for numerous individuals and families. This grassroots-led session will be hosted by different community-based civil society organizations working on land- and resource-related issues. It will provide a space for community leaders actively working on land-justice issues to exchange experiences and knowledge on land-governance challenges. The session will draw narratives from different urban and rural communities in acknowledgement of their diverse and distinctive struggles resulting from the changing relationships among land, people, State, and corporates.
Community leaders from different spheres will also share key strategies for building better access to land tenure and addressing landlessness in different districts of Karnataka (or different urban and rural contexts in South India). They will highlight the importance of strengthening access to tenure and implementing locally led land-use plans to conserve resources for sustainable use by all stakeholders.
The session will be jointly led and hosted by Karnataka Slumdwellers Federation, Women’s Voice, Jeevika, and Environment Support Group and Institute for Youth and Development, all of which are based in Bengaluru.
Session introduction: Dr L.S. Ghandi Doss
Moderator: Dr Ruth Manorama
Speakers: PG Govindarajulu of Jeevika and two other names of urban community leaders to be confirmed soon.
Closing remarks: Shivakumar
Dr. Vincent Darlong |
Ms. Hiral Dave |
 Ms. Sahiti Sanaka |
Ms. Lekshmi M |
 Mr. Holkhomang HaokipSecretary, Rural Aid Service (RAS) |  Mr. Yadu CR |
Mr. Adharsh M |
Mr. S Chockalingam |
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Dr. D Sajith Babu, IAS |
Mr. Gopal Krishnamurthy | |
 Ms. Chitra Hanstad |  Ms. Shivani GuptaCo-CEO, Womanity Foundation |
 Ms. Dhruvi Shah CEO, Axis Bank Foundation |
Ms. Shilpa Kumar
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Ms. Gemma BetsemaFuture Landscape of Funding Land Ecosystem: How can investments on Land can be leveraged to achieve Global Goals around SDG and Net-Zero, while improving Local Impact
The session on ‘Future Landscape of Funding Land Ecosystem: How can investments on Land can be leveraged to achieve Global Goals around SDG and Net-Zero, while improving Local Impacts’. The objective is to engage with some existing and potential funders and other key actors like NGO leader/academician, Gender lens investors etc to deliberate on the trends, challenges and opportunities in this ecosystem. The idea is to go beyond the existing paradigms around funding around institutional and technical pathways for inclusive and tenure security, to appreciate criticality of investment around land for climate change resilience, enhanced access to finance, better adoption of nature-based solutions and youth and women’s economic empowerment etc. This session is designed to trigger an expanded understanding of Donors and actors around each others’ priorities vis-a-vis land ecosystem, leading to expanded donor engagements and resource availability.
 Ms. Andita Listyarnini Asia Communications Officer, International Land Coalition (ILC) |  Mr. Uchendu Eugene ChigbuAssociate Professor, Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST |
 Mr. Kumar Sambhav Journalist and founder of Land Conflict Watch |
Mr. Nitin Sethi |
The session aims to understand the changing landscape of reporting around land, examine global trends and discuss how the media should respond. For instance , over last year, reports around renewable energy related conflicts are going up. It is being discussed that there will be a next round of land grab in the global south for energy and carbon as the rush for Net-Zero intensifies. Post pandemics and with the Ukraine crisis, the food production pattern and areas are likely to shift, so as the way urbanization would spread. Will just transition and landscape restoration help the tribal and forested geographies? Are the global land formalization/ privatization / digitization drive using technology and through private sector participation improving land tenure security of the poor, women and marginalized? Taking note of these global developmental and environmental trends in general and those in the land sector in particular, this session would reflect upon if and how they are influencing media reporting and if and how media would respond in future as 2030 or 2050 close in?
Ms. Srilekha Ati |
Mr. Innocent Antoine Houedji |
 Ms. Margaret MengoDirector of Operations (Africa) , Habitat for Humanity International |  Mr. Ravi BhushanJoint PhD Candidate, BITS Pilani |
 Mr. Francis XavierPrincipal, MBIS Patna |  Mr. Ismael PareCountry representative Officer, Youth Initiative for Land in Africa (YILAA) |
Africa accounts for 60% of arable land. Moreover, 65% of the active population works in agriculture and the sector contributes only 36% to the overall GDP of the 54 countries. According to the World Bank (2008), agriculture accounts for 40% of exports, generates an average of 35% of GDP and employs up to 70% of the working population in West Africa. Moreover, in Burkina Faso, women represent 52% of the population and 83% of them work in this sector providing 60% of agricultural production (Ministry for the Advancement of Women, 2016 ; Institute of Statistics and Demography (INSD, 2010). Also, very few women have access to land for production. Indeed, only 8.2% of women are individual landowners compared to 45.5% of men (Stratégie Nationale de Promotion de l’Entreprenariat Féminin, 2015) and 32% of women in unions own land (INSD, 2010). In general, the observation, even if bitter, is that women practice agriculture on land obtained in the form of gifts for temporary exploitation (loan, lease). They are very rarely landowners. They are often given a piece of land to produce in order to feed the family and provide for its primary needs and especially those of its children (health, clothing and schooling). In some cases, women may own land when they are old and widowed. In Burkina Faso, does law 034-2012/AN of 2 July 2012 on agrarian and land reorganisation sufficiently guarantee women access to land ? What are the major challenges that women face on a daily basis in terms of access to land ? Finally, what solutions and recommendations can be made to guarantee equitable access to land for women ?
Dr. Shekhar Shah |
Ms. Everlyne Naraise |
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Mr. Tim Hanstad |
 Mr. Ramesh SharmaEkta Parishad |  Mr. Deepak SananIAS (Retd),Former- Addl Chief Secretary, HP and former Advisor to NCAER, IIHS & CPR |
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Mr. Pranab Ranjan ChoudhuryThis valedictory plenary is envisaged as an OPEN HOUSE . Here everybody willing to speak can share their thoughts and insights about Land, People & Development in 2030 in 2-3 minutes pitches. The idea is to have a thought provoking ending to ILDC2022, with participants bringing in an inter-disciplinary and futuristic land agenda in the concluding plenary