The Conference is organised around a limited number of thematic axes which re-explore the classic issues in land tenure studies in the light of recent evolutions and increased knowledge. Although the final agenda of the Conference is still in the process of being finalized through a participative process, the following relevant themes will be touched by ICARRD:

1. Gender dimension

2. Access to water, land and genetic resources

3. The condition of agricultural wage-workers

4. Family Farms

5. Nomadic and sedentary groups

6. Indigenous people and ethnic minorities

7. The use of ceiling legislation for land holdings

8. Urban and peri-urban land

9. Systems for basic information on land tenure in different countries

10. Environmental rights

11. Relationship between food security and tenure security

12. Territorial development (with special reference to access to land and public-private partnership)

13. The cultural and bio-diversity dimensions of agrarian systems, and

14. The role of the State and the market in agrarian reform.