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  1. Library Resource
    Informes e investigaciones
    Julio, 2015
    Myanmar

    Customary communal tenure is characteristic of many local shifting cultivation upland communities in S.E. Asia. These communities have strong ancestral relationships to their land, which has never been held under individual rights, but considered common property of the village. Communal tenure has been the norm and land has never been a commodity...

  2. Library Resource
    Informes e investigaciones
    Julio, 2015
    Myanmar

    Customary Tenure and Land Alienation in Myanmar:
    "Customary communal tenure is characteristic of many local upland communities in S.E. Asia. These
    communities have strong ancestral relationships to their land, which has never been held under
    individual rights, but considered common property of the village. Communal tenure has been the
    norm and land has never been a commodity. This is an age-old characteristic of many societies
    globally. Prior to the publication in 1861 of Ancient Law by the English jurist Henry Sumner Maine,

  3. Library Resource
    Informes e investigaciones
    Julio, 2015
    Myanmar

    The government has promised to secure ethnic rights and the rights of original landowners in setting a new national land use policy...A national forum to discuss a draft national land use policy, which will create a framework for a new national land law, was held on June 29 and 30 in Nay Pyi Taw. Discussion was dominated by the question of the rights of ethnic community organisations and other rights groups.

  4. Library Resource
    Artículos de revistas y libros
    Julio, 2015
    Kenya

    In the recent past, high profile cases involving land governance problems have been thrust into the public domain. These include the case involving the grabbing of a playground belonging to Lang’ata Road Primary School in Nairobi and the tussle over a 134 acre piece of land in Karen. Land ownership and use have been a great source of conflict among communities and even families in Kenya, a situation exacerbated by corruption.

  5. Library Resource
    Do land-poor gain from agricultural investments?
    Informes e investigaciones
    Agosto, 2015
    Zambia

    In the context of the global land rush, some portray large-scale land acquisitions as a potent threat to the livelihoods of already marginalized rural farming households in Africa. In order to avoid the potential pitfall of studying a particular project that may well have atypical effects, this paper systematically investigates the impact on commercial farm wage incomes for rural smallholder households of all pledged investments in the agricultural sector in Zambia between 1994 and 2007.

  6. Library Resource
    Documentos de política y resúmenes
    Agosto, 2015
    Kenya

    In Kenya, insecure land tenure and inequitable access to land, forest and water resources have contributed to conflict and violence, which has in turn exacerbated food insecurity. To address these interlinked problems, a new set of laws and policies on food security and land governance are currently being introduced or designed by the Government of Kenya. The new Food Security Bill explicitly recognizes the link between food security and land access, and the 2012 land laws target the corrupt system of land administration that made much of Kenya’s land grabbing possible.

  7. Library Resource
    Documentos de política y resúmenes
    Julio, 2015
    Myanmar

    KEY RECOMMENDATIONS:-
    (1) TO MYANMAR LAWYERS:
    "a. Lawyers need to form strong networks and associations to support farmers, ethnic groups and community organizations...
    b. Lawyers need to develop new skills to participate in policy advocacy, including collecting data about current practices, and engage in a national debate about land rights...
    c. Lawyers working on land rights cases need to use all available tools to strengthen their case work (see annex 2 for a list of practical actions lawyers can take).....
    (2) TO CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS:

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