The impacts of agribusiness and plantation investments on the forests of the Mekong region have been widely documented. Taken together, much of this evidence paints a picture of global economic forces bearing down on fragile ecosystems and ethnically diverse communities of smallholder farmers. What…

Around five hundred people from civil society, academia, government, private industry, and development agencies will be gathering in a few weeks for the 2021 Mekong Regional Land Forum (#MRLF2021). We're coming together as reform-minded actors within and beyond the region to engage in debate on…

This blog was originally published at: https://www.evalforward.org/blog/participatory-evaluation-myanmar - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Community-based forest management in Myanmar started during the 1990s. After a decline in forests, the government realized the importance of villagers’…

2020 was a tough year on many fronts, and land rights were no exception. COVID-19 hindered land rights advocates from doing field research, meeting with government officials, prioritizing policy initiatives, and obtaining funding. Despite these headwinds, we have seen important advances, and the…

Yesterday, on International Human Rights Day, the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands announced that Saw Eh Say, the coordinator from the Kayah Earthrights Action Network (KEAN), received the 2020 Human Rights Tulip Myanmar Award for his great efforts to promote the right to land in Myanmar.…

Forests are critically important for many of the world’s poor who depend on them for food, income, medicine and building materials. As such, forests are a nexus of broadly held policy goals such as poverty reduction, economic growth, conservation and climate change. Most forests in the developing…

On the 2019 International Day of Rural Women, Landesa’s Shipra Deo explores how land rights are an essential element for overturning misperceptions about the role of women in society and on the farm. In a workshop with a group of agronomists who work in agriculture extension in India, I ask the…

Date: 17 juillet 2018 Source: Farmlandgrab, HRW L’État birman devrait d’urgence offrir réparation pour les terres qui ont été confisquées illégalement par le passé, a déclaré Human Rights Watch dans un rapport publié aujourd’hui. Le gouvernement devrait également faire promulguer des lois et…

Much of the world’s rural landscapes are technically managed by national governments with limited recognition of, or support for, the rights and management responsibilities of the rural poor who live in these areas. In an era of large-scale land acquisitions for global commodity production, this…

By Laura Meggiolaro, Land Portal Coordinator As part of its localization strategy, the Land Portal is taking a collaborative approach to partner with existing networks and transform their land-related information into Linked Open Data. In the Greater Mekong, the Land Portal is working with a…

This blog was written as a contribution to the Mekong Regional Land Forum taking place from June 21-23 in Hanoi, Vietnam. Philip Hirsch is a keynote speaker at this event. By Philip Hirsch, Professor of Human Geography in the School of Geosciences at the University of Sydney It may seem strange…

This blog was written as a contribution to the Mekong Regional Land Forum that took place from June 21-23 in Hanoi, Vietnam. Duncan Pruett was a keynote speaker at this event. By Duncan Pruett, Program Policy Advisor for Oxfam in Myanmar I was asked to reflect on foreign investments in…