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Critical Review of Selected Forest-Related Regulatory Initiatives

Applying a Rights Perspective

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2011
Asia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, India
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
forest law
forestry
community forestry
deforestation
forest conservation
state forests
indigenous peoples' lands
forest land
forest management plans
indigenous peoples' land rights
Indigenous Peoples
This 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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In the Face of Threats and Invasions in the Forests, Communities Defend and Reclaim Their Life Spaces

WRM Bulletin 254 – Jan/Feb 2021

Policy Papers & Briefs
January, 2021
Mozambique, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Liberia, Nigeria, Brazil, Ecuador, Venezuela, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
gender equity
poverty
sustainable development
land-use planning
environment
climate change
fisheries
deforestation
forest conservation
forest management plans
mining
land dispute
community land rights
customary tenure
tenure security
Indigenous Peoples
land rights activists
local communities
extractive industries
women
The articles in this Bulletin are written by the following organizations and individuals: National Coordinator for the Defense of the Mangrove Ecosystem (C-CONDEM), Ecuador; Yayasan Pusaka Bentala Rakya (Bentala Raya Heritage Foundation), Indonesia; Venezuelan Observatory of Political Ecology and members of the WRM international secretariat in close collaboration with several allies who are part of grassroots groups in different countries.
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‘Shifting ground’

Renegotiating land rights and rural livelihoods in Sarawak, Malaysia

Peer-reviewed publication
August, 2011
Malaysia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
land law
indigenous peoples' lands
land use
agriculture
land use change
land investments
customary land rights
indigenous peoples' land rights
indigenous people's tenure
Indigenous Peoples
palm oil industries
In this paper, we use an actor-oriented perspective to explore the nature and extent of conflict and negotiation with regard to land use and tenure among the Iban of Sarawak. The Iban are shifting cultivators who have long been involved in smallholder cash crops.
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Gender, the Status of Women, and Family Structure in Malaysia

Peer-reviewed publication
June, 2017
Malaysia
Land & Gender
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
agriculture
matrilineal lineage
patrilineal lineage
This paper addresses the question of whether the relatively high status of women in pre-colonial South-east Asia is still evident among Malay women in twentieth century Peninsular Malaysia. Compared to patterns in East and South Asia, Malay family structure does not follow the typical patriarchal patterns of patrilineal descent, patrilocal residence of newly married couples, and preference for male children.
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The Land We Lost Briefing Document

Native Customary Rights (NCR) and Monoculture Plantations in Sarawak

Reports & Research
July, 2019
Malaysia
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Land, Climate Change & Environment
sustainable development
forest law
forestry
deforestation
forest conservation
sustainable land management
indigenous peoples' land rights
Indigenous Peoples
extractive industries
palm oil industries
This publication is the outcome of our research on the socio-environmental impacts of large pulp and paper, timber tree and oil palm plantations in Sarawak. It contains two case studies on plantation affected indigenous communities in Batu Niah and Bakong in the Miri Division. It stresses on the importance of understanding the context of large monoculture plantations in Sarawak accurately, as it entails two destructive factors. First, it involves deforestation, as it is clearly a post-logging development.
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The Land We Lost

Native Customary Rights (NCR) and Monoculture Plantations in Sarawak

Reports & Research
July, 2019
Malaysia
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Land, Climate Change & Environment
sustainable development
forest law
forestry
deforestation
forest conservation
sustainable land management
indigenous peoples' land rights
Indigenous Peoples
extractive industries
palm oil industries
This publication is the outcome of our research on the socio-environmental impacts of large pulp and paper, timber tree and oil palm plantations in Sarawak. It contains two case studies on plantation affected indigenous communities in Batu Niah and Bakong in the Miri Division. It stresses on the importance of understanding the context of large monoculture plantations in Sarawak accurately, as it entails two destructive factors. First, it involves deforestation, as it is clearly a post-logging development.
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Agricultural Land Use in Malaysia: An Historical Overview and Implications for Food Security

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2013
Malaysia
Urban Tenure
land policies
urban land
land use
agricultural land management
agriculture
land use change
land economics
A study is conducted to describe the historical overview of agricultural land use in Malaysia with the aim of identifying the challenges of agricultural land use in a dynamic economic system. Economic policies were explained with major policies instruments. The effects of these policies on patterns of agricultural land use in 1960–2005 were assessed. Findings identified three broad economic eras in Malaysia: Agricultural (1960-1974); Industrial (1975-1999) and Urbanization eras (2000-date).
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People's perceptions about the importance of forests on Borneo

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2013
Indonesia, Malaysia, South-Eastern Asia
Forest Landscape Restoration
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
forestry
land-use planning
natural resources management
land use
deforestation
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The local impacts of oil palm expansion in Malaysia: An assessment based on a case study in Sabah State

Reports & Research
December, 2012
Malaysia, South-Eastern Asia
land use
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Malaysia: Cassava vs. tree crops in the competition for land

Journal Articles & Books
December, 1987
Malaysia, Asia, South-Eastern Asia
land use
The agricultural economy of Malaysia has traditionally been export-oriented. Cassava was the 1st of the export crops, established in the 1850s. Malaysia is a land-surplus, labor-scarce economy; thus cassava was planted in a shifting cultivation system giving it the image of a soil-depleting crop. Data are also provided on yields, production systems, production costs and labor utilization, and pricing and market efficiency. The national plan through 2000 emphasizes tree crops, which could affect cassava production.