Land as a Free Gift of Nature
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Our Mission:
A global alliance of civil society and intergovernmental organisations working together to promote secure and equitable access to and control over land for poor women and men through advocacy, dialogue, knowledge sharing and capacity building...
Our Vision:
Secure and equitable access to and control over land reduces poverty and contributes to identity, dignity and inclusion.
Community and Customary Land - 12 files ...
Dispute Mechanisms and Approaches - 9 files...
General - 45 files
Human Rights - 14 files...
Land and the Ceasefire Process...
Land Grabbing - 68 files...
Land Titling - 7 files...
Community Mapping: Overcoming Complexities...
Free, Prior, Informed, Consent: Policy Brief...
This study emerged out of an identified need to document social
processes leading to land insecurity, and those leading to investment
and sustainable use of lands by rural populations. Focusing on the
Delta and Dry Zone, the main paddy producing regions of Myanmar,
this analysis unravels the powers at play in shaping rural households’
relationship to land. From British colonization to the 2012 reforms,
many issues have remained relatively unchanged with regards to
local dynamics of landlessness, exclusion processes, local power plays,
INDIA ACT I, 1894 1st March 1894
BURMA ACT IV 1898
9th SEPTEMBER 1899....."...1. This Act extends to Lower Burma and the Thayetmyo District of Upper Burma.
2. The provisions of this Act shall apply only to land in towns and villages...
BURMA ACT VI 1907 1st JANUARY 1908.....PRELIMINARY...DUTIES AND POWERS OF VILLAGE COMMITTEES, HEADMEN AND RURAL
POLICEMAN...GENERAL DUTIES OF VILLAGERS...PROVISIONS RESPECTING RESIDENCE IN VILLAGE=TRACTS AND ERECTION OF
HOUSES...PAWN SHOPS...PWES...SUPPLEMENTAL PROVISIONS
Act No XLI 1955
India Act XV 1916 28th September 1916....Whereas it is expedient to remove certain existing disabilities in respect of the power of
disposition of property by Hindus for the benefit of persons not in existence at the date of such
disposition ;
It is hereby enacted as follows:
Burma Act No LXVI
8 November 1947
Burma Act V, 1920
1st February, 1921.....1. "...This Act shall extend to the City of Rangoon and to such areas in the neighbourhood thereof
as the President of the Union may, by notification, specify in this behalf:...