This year’s conference features academic research on land governance, land markets, and institutions, and their impact on economic growth and poverty reduction, structural transformation and resilience, private investment, and job creation. The conference also includes sessions on property taxation and urban development, equity and rights, land-related conflict and land policy’s links to climate resilience. A cross-cutting theme is the impact of new technologies, covering advances in digitalization of land registration procedures and data management, and the opportunities of building on these advances and expanding interoperability, as well as the integration of satellite data, administrative data analysis, and AI.
April 29, 2026
New approaches to High Quality Agricultural Data Collection | 4:00pm – 6:00pm | Location: MC 8-100
Does it matter whom you ask or how you ask? Systematic underreporting of land rental activity in household survey data
- Kibrom Abay, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI
- Gashaw Abate, Research Fellow, IFPRI
April 30, 2026
Land, labor, and economic development | 2:00pm – 3:30pm | Location: Preston Auditorium
- Johan Swinnen, Director General, IFPRI



