Laos, officially the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR), is a rapidly growing developing economy at the heart of Southeast Asia, bordered by Burma, Cambodia, China, Thailand, and Vietnam. Laos’ economic growth over the last decade averaged just below eight percent, placing Laos amongst the fastest growing economies in the world.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2019Laos
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchMarch, 2022Laos
The history of land rights in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR), hereafter referred to as Laos, is a history of customary land tenure systems which remain the most prevalent form of land tenure. As social systems, land tenure systems in Laos have been affected by and have adapted to external forces such as neighboring kingdoms, colonialization, geopolitics and war, migration, and global economic trends. Ongoing rapid changes in national socioeconomic conditions and domestic political goals continue to alter the customary tenure landscape.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchMay, 2020Thailand
รายงานการศึกษานโยบายกฎหมายและสถานะการถือครองที่ดินป่าไม้ของเกษตรกรรายย่อยในพื้นที่ป่าสงวนแห่งชาตินี้เป็นผลงานที่เกิดจากเรียบเรียงเอกสารมือสอง การสัมภาษณ์เชิงลึกและการทำงานในพื้นที่ภาคสนามร่วมกันระหว่าง รีคอฟ อาจารย์ ดร.รัชนี โพธิแท่น และคณะนักศึกษาปริญญาโท คณะวนศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยเกษตรศาสตร์ ตัวแทนชุมชนในพื้นที่ป่าสงวนแห่งชาติ และเครือข่ายประชาสังคมเพื่อการจัดการป่าอย่างยั่งยืนและเป็นธรรม (เฟล็กที) เพื่อรวบรวมข้อมูลทั้งทางด้านวิชาการนโยบาย ข้อมูลเชิงปริมาณ และการสะท้อนมุมมองของผู้ที่เกี่ยวข้องในประเด็นของการถือครองที่ดินป่าในพื้นที่ป่าสงวนแห่งชาติ"
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Applying a Rights Perspective
Journal Articles & BooksJanuary, 2011Asia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, IndiaThis report brings together four studies that evaluate regulatory initiatives with implications for forest-dependent communities from a rights-based perspective. These are: The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 – India; Regulatory initiatives and selected outcomes of judicial processes in Malaysia; The Community Forest Act (2007) – Thailand; and The Indigenous People’s Rights Act (1997) – Philippines. Each study covers law making, content and implementation.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJune, 2021Thailand
Thailand is undergoing an important development in its forestry laws. When the Community Forest Act B.E. 2562 was passed in 2019, Thailand had for the first time an official umbrella law to recognize community forestry. Subordinate laws still need to be developed to further clarify the Act for its implementation.
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Based on the Case Study in Zagatala district
Reports & ResearchOctober, 2014AzerbaijanIn the Republic of Azerbaijan forested areas cover 1,021 hectares of the land, which is 11.8% of the country’s territory. In the 18th-19th centuries however, this figure stood at 30- 35%. The per capita forest area is 0.12 hectares, which is 4 times less (0.48 hectares) than the average international indicator.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchFebruary, 2020Azerbaijan
Overview of the State of Forests and Forest Management in Azerbaijan derives from the project on the state of forests in the Caucasus and Central Asia and presents the forest resources and the forest sector of Azerbaijan, including trends in, and pressures on forests. The overview describes policies and institutions of forest sector in Azerbaijan and major challenges the sector faces as well as policy responses in place or planned.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchOctober, 2015India
This paper presents case studies of two tribal villages - Mendha Lekha and Jamguda - successfully running forest-based bamboo businesses under the community forest rights provisions of Forest Rights Act (2006). We have documented the issues faced by the villagers in claiming community forest rights, issues faced in harvesting and sale of bamboo, and business practices adopted by both the villages.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJuly, 2015Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal
Shifting cultivation is a dominant form of farming in the eastern Himalayas, practised by a diverse group of indigenous people from the most marginalized social and economic groups. The survival of these indigenous people and the survival of their forests are inextricably linked. However, policy makers and natural resource managers perceive shifting cultivation to be wasteful, destructive to forests, and unsustainable.
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Library ResourcePeer-reviewed publicationMay, 2015Cambodia
Cambodia has recently demonstrated one of the highest rates of deforestation in the world. While scholars have long explored the drivers of tropical forest loss, the case of Cambodia offers particular insights into the role of the state where transnational governance and regional integration are increasingly the norm. Given the significant role logging rents play in Cambodia’s post-conflict state formation, this article explores the contemporary regime and its ongoing codependent relationship with forested land.
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