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  1. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    April, 2013
    Myanmar

    The reform process in Burma/Myanmar by the quasi-civilian government of President Thein Sein has raised hopes that a long overdue solution can be found to more than 60 years of devastating civil war...

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    September, 2015
    Myanmar

    This assessment is in response to the 6th draft of the NLUP, released in May
    2015, following months of public and expert consultations. It outlines some
    of the key positive and negative points of the new draft. The new draft NLUP
    has taken on board many of the concerns and recommendations raised by
    the public during the consultation process, and includes several key issues
    that would greatly improve Myanmar’s land governance arrangements.

  3. Library Resource
    Institutional & promotional materials
    December, 2015
    Global, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam

    Research indicates that key parameters of “land grabbing” differ across regions (e.g., ILC 2012) – particularly in view of who invests and/or when the bulk of investments occurred. At the same time, my review of the “land grab” literature since 2008 reveals that hardly any comparative assessments of “land grabbing” from a home country perspective exist that study whether and/or in which way and why “land grabs” of a single investor country differ across regions.

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    January, 2012
    Myanmar

    Northern Burma’s borderlands have undergone dramatic changes in the last two decades. Three main and
    interconnected developments are simultaneously taking place in Shan State and Kachin State: (1) the increase
    in opium cultivation in Burma since 2006 after a decade of steady decline; (2) the increase at about the same
    time in Chinese agricultural investments in northern Burma under China’s opium substitution programme,
    especially in rubber; and (3) the related increase in dispossession of local communities’ land and livelihoods

  5. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    November, 2011
    South-Eastern Asia, Myanmar

    What rural dwellers in the Global South experience as land grabbing, tends to be seen in the Global North as ‘agricultural investment’. The World Bank has been at the forefront of a drive to legitimate these investments, convening to win support for a code of conduct based on Responsible Agricultural Investment (RAI) principles. Many key civil society groups reject the proposal for a code of conduct, objecting to the top-down process by which it was formulated and arguing that it was more likely to legitimate than prevent land grabbing.

  6. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2010
    Myanmar, South-Eastern Asia

    Abstract: "Land-grabbing is occurring at a significant extent and pace in Southeast Asia; some of the characteristics of this land grab differ from those in regions such as Africa. At a glance, Europe is not a high profile, major driver of land-grabbing in this region, but a closer examination reveals that it nonetheless is playing a significant role. This influence is both direct and indirect, through European corporate sector and public policies, as well as through multilateral agencies within which EU states are members.

  7. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    March, 2016
    Myanmar

    We are at a critical juncture in our history, more promising than at any time in recent memory. The country will have a civilian-majority government that came to office through the votes of a multitude of smaller nationality groups for a pan-national party promising political change. If this political transition is to succeed, poverty must be alleviated, corruption curtailed, drug abuse radically reduced, and a host of other social crises addressed that have long blighted our country.

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