Schedule

8:00 – 8:30 am

Participant registration

Opening Session

8:30 – 9:15 am

Opening Ceremony

09:15 – 10:00am

Keynote lecture:

Access to land as an aspect of Sustainable Rural Development: Brazil's experience

10:00 – 10:15am

Coffee Break

THEMATIC ISSUE 1 - The role of cadastre and registration in democratizing access to land

10:15 – 10:45 am

The situation of access to land in the Latin American and Caribbean region

Challenges and opportunities for cadastre and registration in Latin America and the Caribbean

10:45-1:00pm

 Panel: Cadastre and access to land

 -Land registry, real estate registration and access to land for traditional peoples and communities in collective areas

- The role of the cadastre in identifying public and unproductive land and the concentration of ownership.

 The contribution of the cadastre and land registry in successful experiences of redistribution and access to land in the region.

1:00-2:30pm

Lunch

2:30 – 14:15pm

Panel: Cadastre and Registration - Public policies, conditions for permanence and land development

 - Experiences linked to indigenous peoples, afro-descendants, peasants and other traditional peoples and communities

- Credit and technical assistance programs for new landowners

- Mexico's experience - Mexico's registry management of land access issues

- Policies to support the development of tenure for young people.

 THEMATIC AXIS 2 - Registration systems in their interface with society and the development of state policies

4:30 – 5:00pm

Thematic Lecture - INCRA

Land registry: challenges for the implementation of a new land registry model based on international standards.

5:00 – 6:15pm

Panel: National  Multipurpose Cadastre Systems to support the development of state policies and interface with society.

- Simplifying registration and cadastre processes.

- Integration of information systems for efficient management

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

09:00– 10:30am

Cadastre systems at the interface with society and the development of state policies

Panel: Fighting informality and conflict: lessons learned and new approaches

- Use of geospatial technologies in the identification and mapping of urban and rural informal settlements.

-          - Participatory formalization processes: involving communities

-          - The multifunctional land registry as a peace-building practice: opportunities and challenges from the perspective of German Development Cooperation in Colombia”

-          - From cadastre to registration: Bureaucratic procedures and costs and their impact on maintaining the informality of property.

Coffee Break

 THEMATIC AXIS 3 - Land governance in the context of climate change and environmental pressures

10:45 – 11:15am

Thematic Lecture: Challenges and Priorities for Territorial Information Systems for sustainable development in the Amazon - OTCA

11:15am – 1:00pm

Panel:

-  Multipurpose Cadastre: Integration of environmental data for sustainable land management.

- Experiences in combating deforestation/fire/environmental degradation in the Amazon through cadastre and registration systems”

      - Brazilian experience

1:00 – 2:30pm

 Lunch 

2:30 – 4:00pm

Panel: Climate change: implications for land policies

- Displacement of communities in high-risk areas: cadastral and registration challenges

- Payment for environmental services programs and their impact on access to land

- Land use policies for climate adaptation

- Cadastre as a tool for risk management and ecosystem-based adaptation

- Climate change and its impact on traditional and remaining forms of exploitation of environmental resources by urban and rural populations in the interior of the Amazon.

4:30 - 5:00pm

Closing - “The future of access to land in Latin America: commitments for a more equitable and sustainable region”.

5:00pm

Cocktail