ILDC 2021 – Track & Threads
Fifth ILDC 2021 is being organized amidst the pandemic crisis. We have rescheduled the event to November and decided to go for a hybrid mode to continue instituting the event every calendar year since its inception, as per the decision of the Organizing Committee. Adapting to the context, this year’s theme has been agreed as ‘Land Security for Peace and Resilience’
[showhide type=”Read-mores1210″ more_text=”Read More/Show Details” less_text=”Hide Details”]ILDC2021 will continue to extend platforms for enriching and interdisciplinary land conversations in form of sessions for presentations, panel discussions, round tables as well as avenues like master classes, lightening talks and focussed conclaves. We invite presentations and conversations on, good and not so practices, scalable as well as downsized models, techniques and innovations in India and learnings, issues and challenges across land domain from India, South Asia as well as from around the globe. ILDC 2021 hopes to promote data and evidence based, practicum oriented, academic research, action research, entrepreneurial ideas and achievements as well as activists and advocacy propositions around disciplines and cross cutting fields connecting land and development.
As the world is dealing with a pandemic, its repercussions being reflected in India as well, along with an economic crisis and mass reverse migration which has significantly impacted lives and livelihoods of people across sectors, ILDC2021 invites attention to the relevance and threats of land security, in the context of inclusive and sustainable development with inbuilt resilience to future shocks. Land being a solid form of physical and cultural capital in India, land tenure security and its potential impacts on livelihood security, food and nutritional Security, health and wellbeing of individuals, families and communities are worth exploring especially in the pandemic context.
Furthering inclusion has been an agenda of ILDC and how diverse tenure regimes around different land uses influence land rights of marginalized groups with a special focus on women’s land rights, indigenous rights and customary tenure regimes, farmers and pastoralists etc. will be preferred for deliberation this year.
Of particular interest to this year’s conference is also the assessment of potentials, preparedness and pathways with respect to the land tenure issues and options in the UN decade of Ecosystem Restoration (2021 – 2030), starting this year.
ILDC as a platform seeks to trigger intensification and diversification of meaningful and strategic land engagements by land actors within and across pillars of Samaj (Society), Sarkar (Government), Khabar (Media) and Bazaar (Market) and therefore experiences, cases, reviews and debates on how these stakeholders interact among and with each other to engage with land tenure security are welcome.
ILDC 2021 seeks to also highlight Land and Technology Interface and encourages conversations on relevant ideas, pilots, good practices and failures, as India goes digital aiming conclusive tilting and open land market relying on drones, satellite imageries, block chains, AL and ML to map, document, update and seamlessly link land records.
Private sector Influence on land is now substantive and transcends across land uses and tenures with ambition for growth, achievement of Net Zero targets and attention for sustainability, both steadfastly increasing. While conflicts, alienation and exclusion often attributed to it, sporadic examples around land responsible-investments and innovative win-win engagements have started upcoming. ILDC 2021, seeks to expand private sector interactions, particularly around cases and willingness related responsible-investment, technology innovation not only as CSR and R&R, but also as a core strategy of corporate governance, underlining the criticality of land as key investment crucible.
Cultural and artistic expressions around land has been part of our culture, literature, dance forms, films and storey telling. Along with intellectual deliberations, political discourses and social narratives, they subtly yet substantially influence and impact land awareness, engagements and trigger changes. This ILDC onwards, we provision space for sharing and display of such expressions as a lighter yet impactful medium of communicating land.
[/showhide]ILDC2021 will have following cross-cutting TRACKs, around which, we invite proposals for sessions, presentations, ideas and deliberations, that also addresses this year’s theme of ‘Land Security for Peace and Resilience’
- Informality, Pandemic induced reverse migration and land tenure security
- Pandemic impacts on Women Land Rights
- Pandemics, investments and land conflicts
- Land rights for resilience
- Urban Planning in a post pandemic world
- Pandemic resilience – better models across the globe
- Women Land Rights: In the context of women land rights, the focus would be on inheritance rights, rights of women farmers and forest rights. Contributions are welcome around potential, challenges and issues around inheritance rights as a critical pathway for enhancing women land rights, examples and strategies around legal-institutional interventions, in furthering WLR with scope and challenges around upscaling, influence and impact of legal-institutional reforms and innovations on gender equity in practice and in terms of monitorable data and the potential options and pathways to ensure SDG 5.1 a and b will be given priority. With a gender-equity as a core cross-cutting focus, ILDC2021 will have more sessions on WLR and more discussions on WLR in other sessions.
- Tribal and Indigenous Land Rights: Provisions of legal pluralism, constitutional safeguards, special protections for customary and community tenure vis-à-vis tenure security, experiences around individualization of customary tenure and enhancing land rights of tribal and indigenous communities, cultural identity and livelihoods of indigenous and tribal communities in Schedule V, VI and other tribal dominant areas in Central and North East India, as aspirations and agenda for growth and development enter these resource-rich areas
- Land rights of Dalits: landlessness, tenancy, access to commons, recognition of forest rights
- Rights of tenant and small farmers, fisherfolk and pastoralists in the context of doubling farm income, rights of farmers, access to public service entitlements and benefits from FPOs and value chain interventions
- Rights of slum dwellers, squatters/pavement dwellers and inhabitants of informal settlements, urban tenants in the context of fast urbanization, smart cities, affordable housing, regularization of informal settlements, individualization of group tenures as well as rights of slum dwellers.
- Land record modernization, updating and mapping innovations
- Land administration and service delivery innovations
- Land use planning and monitoring of change
- Land information storage and dissemination
- Land market innovations around PropTech and FinTech
We hope to check the status of SDG goals, measures to prevent climate change, scalable models towards attaining SDG’s 1(No Poverty), 2(Zero Hunger) , 5 (gender equality) ,8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth) ,10 (reduced inequality), 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities), 13 (Climate Action ), 16 (Peace and Justice Strong Institutions ) and understand the need for tenure security to further ecosystem restoration across open access resources, commons or private land.
[/showhide]The focus would be on rationale, role and potential of partnerships to ensure and enhance land tenure security and to overcome land sector limitations around resources, knowledge and innovations.
[showhide type=”Read-mores1216″ more_text=”Read More/Show Details” less_text=”Hide Details”] We are more keenly looking at experiences and arguments around inter-sectoral/multi-level/innovative partnerships with impactful or potentially disruptive change in addressing chronic and critical problems in land sector esp. around land administration/governance, land information and data and land-technologies and innovations. While we are open to new ideas around partnerships, some potential sub-themes could be
- Partnership for ensuring and enhancing inclusive Land Rights and secure tenure
- Partnership around land information, data, M&E and Impact
- Partnership to promote innovations, mentor disruptions
- Partnership for effective land administration and improved service delivery
- Partnership for sustainable and inclusive investment and shared prosperity
- Partnerships and innovation around land rights and conflicts reporting
1.0 Land Laws, Administration and Reforms :
1. State experiences on Land administrations and potential learnings / best practices 2. Land leasing reform, consolidation: Arguments for and against leasing reforms, experiences from the pioneering states, lessons, good practices 3. Land Record Reforms: Achievements and learning from State-led reform around DILRMP and conclusive titling, sporadic non-state innovations.[showhide type=”Read-mores1217″ more_text=”Read More/Show Details” less_text=”Hide Details”]
4. Forest Rights Reforms: experiences and learning around implementation, role and contribution of stakeholders 5. Urban land and housing reforms: State innovations around slum dwellers’ right, affordable housing, addressing informalities 6. Decentralization and localization of land governance 7. Land laws and legal reforms 8. Land administration and institutional reforms
2.0 Land and investments
1. Land Acquisition, resettlement and rehabilitation: Experiences around mining, power, infrastructure, real estate; land banks, SEZs, 2. Responsible and Sustainable Land Investments: Cases, experiences and attempts by the public sector, linear infrastructure, private sectors, civil society; Land engagements as part of CSR, R&R and Corporate Governance
3.0 Land and Civil Society
1. Land as a discipline/inter-discipline in academia : Universities, B-Schools 2. Land Rights actions and advocacy : NGOs and Networks 3. Media and land rights reporting
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- Land open data, standards and access to land information
- Land Indicators, methodologies, data sets and actors
- Preparedness for reporting SDG land indicators