LAND TENURE ANDTHE RULE OF LAW
December 9th, 2022 at 11:00am ET
In the Amazon, illegal deforestation and land conversion is perpetuated by unstable land titles, extractive financial drivers and a weak rule of law. Why is land tenure important for conservation and what are the solution sets available to legally and socially stabilize land title.
Brenda Britto
Imazon
Brenda Brito is from Belém, in Northern Brazil. She holds a Law Degree from the Federal University of Pará (UFPA), a Master of the Science of Law (JSM’08) degree at Stanford Law School and she is currently in the first year of the Doctor of Science of Law Program (JSD) at Stanford. Since 2004 she has worked as a researcher at Imazon (Amazon Institute of People and the Environment), a nongovernmental organization focused in environmental research in the Brazilian Amazon, where she coordinates the climate change program. She has also served as Executive Director of Imazon between 2009 and July 2012. Brenda has focused her research activities in three main issues: enforcement of environmental laws to protect the forest; improvement of land laws and land administration in the Amazon and on actions and mechanisms to reduce deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+). She has published 35 studies on these topics, including papers in national journals and international conferences, books and book chapters, most of them in Portuguese. She has also attended major international conferences regarding climate change in the last 5 years as an observer and as speaker in side events, such as the Conferences of the Parties for the climate convention from 2008 to 2011 and Rio+20. Her current research topic at the JSD Program at Stanford addresses the relationship between forest governance and REDD+ in the Brazilian Amazon.
Bastiaan Reydon
Kadaster
Bastiaan is an Economist (USP), MS in Agronomy (USP), Ph.D. in Economics (UNICAMP), Post-doctoral in Land Management at the University of Wisconsin (USA) and at the ITC from the University of Twente (The Netherlands). Professor at the UNICAMP in Environmental Economics and Agricultural Economics – specialization in land management and land policies. Professor at the International Center for Land and Policy Studies and Training (ICLPST- Taiwan). Visiting Professor at the Utrecht University (UU – LANDac). Visiting Professor at ITC University of Twente. Visiting Professor at the University of Wisconsin (LTC-Madison). Consultant for: INCRA, FAO, IDB, IFPRI, the World Bank, USAID, Terra Institute on Land Governance, Land Markets and Land Policies. Brazil LGAF coordinator for the World Bank. INCRA/FAO project in improving land governance in Brazil. Project Manager and Advisor at Kadaster International since 2019 responsible for the projects in Brazil, , Colombia, Mozambique and Kazakhstan.
Paulo Moutinho
IPAM
Paulo is an ecologist interested in understanding the causes of deforestation in the Amazon and its consequences on biodiversity, climate change, and the region’s inhabitants.deforestation concept that contributed to developing the mechanism known as REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation). He participated actively in the establishment of the Amazon Fund and the Brazilian National Policy for Climate Change. Currently, he is devoting his time to understanding the dynamic of land grabbing in public lands in the Brazilian Amazon. I had served as Associate Scientist at the Woodwell Climate Research Center-US, (2006 to 2010) and served as Executive Director of IPAM (2009-2012) where is currently I am a Senior Scientist.
