land law
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Law Amending the Lower Myanmar Town and Village Land Act - Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No. 37/2015 (Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
Provisional English title.
The Condominium Law - Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No. 24/2016 - စုပေါင်းပိုင်အဆောက်အအုံဆိုင်ရာဥပဒေ (Burmese မြန်မာဘာသာ)
Provisional English title.
Land to the Tillers of Myanmar
...with increasing frequency, land is taken from farmers, often with little or no compensation. Large swathes of farmland have already been made available to foreign-based companies in a process that appears to be accelerating. Government data show that the amount of land transferred to private companies increased by as much as 900 percent from the mid-1990s to mid-2000s and now totals roughly 5 percent of Myanmar’s agricultural land...
THE CODE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE (1909) (selections related to land))
[India Act, 1908] (1st January, 1909)-- selected articles
Constraints and Opportunities for Commercial Timber Extraction From Community and Smallholder Forests
... The National Community Forestry Instruction (1995) provides communities the opportunity for 30 year licenses to manage state forests lands for natural forest protection, mixed agro-forestry and timber production systems. The Forestry Master Plan (2001) envisions around 920,000 ha to be handed to local Forest User Groups (FUGs) by 2030, about 1.36% of the total land area.
LAND OF SORROW - Human rights violations at Myanmar’s Myotha Industrial Park
Myanmar may soon face a land conflict epidemic as a result of the growing influx of investments and
the consequent demand for land, unless laws and policies that adequately address land rights issues
are urgently adopted and implemented.
The Myotha Industrial Park typifies Myanmar’s current economic development model, which seeks
to incentivize investment in areas designated as “least developed.” The Myotha Industrial Park,
developed by the Burmese company Mandalay Myotha Industrial Development (MMID) in Ngazun
Application forms to use farm land (Burmese မြန်မာဘာသာ )
These forms relate to the Farmland Rules of 31 August 2012
Asia-Pacific Forestry Sector Outlook Study: Country Report, Myanmar
Working Paper No: APFSOS/WP/08
Forest Department, Ministry of Forestry, Myanmar
Myanmar at the HLP Crossroads (final version)
Executive Summary:
THE TOWNS ACT (1907)
BURMA ACT III, 1907 25th May. 1907.....GENERAL DUTIES OF HEADMEN AND ELDERS...GENERAL DUTIES OF RESIDENTS...PWES, BILLIARDS SALOONS, PAWN-SHOPS, ETC.
Understanding How the Legal Framework in Myanmar Currently Supports Recognition of Shifting Cultivation Tenure Arrangements
Land Core Group Shifting Cultivation Meeting
Yangon, Myanmar
17 June 2016 .....Legal Framework = Tools in a Toolbox...Where to start? Constitution...What tools exist in various laws?...Association Registration Law...Farmland Law (Strengths)...Farmland Law (Weaknesses)...Forest Law and CFI (Strengths)...Forest Land and CFI (Weaknesses) ...Vacant, Fallow and Virgin Land (VFV) Law ...Need for a new tool...