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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    April, 2012
    Uganda

    This report investigates cases of land grabbing in Uganda, focusing in particular on oil palm plantations in Kalangala, Lake Victoria. It assesses the impacts on rural communities and on the local environment, and questions who benefits from these projects.

  2. Library Resource
    Agrarian changes in Nyimba, Zamba
    Reports & Research
    May, 2012
    Zambia

    Over the past decade issues pertaining to land sharing/land sparing have gained some space in the debate on the study of land-use strategies and their associated impacts at landscape level. State and non-state actors have, through their interests and actions, triggered changes at the landscape level and this report is a synthesis of some of the main findings and contributions of a scoping study carried out in Zambia as part of CIFOR’s Agrarian Change Project. It focuses on findings in three villages located in the Nyimba District.

  3. Library Resource
    January, 2012

    The development of international mining projects is one of the most visible consequences of globalisation. But developments in the mining industry are the cause of about 10.3 percent of all displacements in the world. This means that more than a million people per year may be resettled as a result of resource extraction in various parts of the globe. Countries displaying the greatest growth rate of this phenomenon include India, China, Ghana, and many other African counties.

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    October, 2012
    Myanmar

    Deep in the wilds of northern Myanmar's Kachin state a brutal civil war has intensified over the past year between government forces and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA).

    People & Power sent filmmakers Jason Motlagh and Steve Sapienza to Myanmar (formerly Burma) to investigate why the conflict rages on, despite the political reforms in the south that have impressed Western governments and investors now lining up to stake their claim in the resource-rich Asian nation.

  5. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    January, 2012
    Myanmar

    KEY DEVELOPMENTS:

    * The Burma Army is currently attacking within six miles of Mai Ja Yang, a city in Kachin State that is a refuge for over 1,000 displaced people
    * The Burma Army is firing an average of 100 mortar rounds per day into this area and is receiving reinforcements.
    * Over 40,000 Kachin people now displaced by attacks and more are preparing to run

  6. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    July, 2012
    Myanmar

    ...this report documents the severity of the human rights abuses suffered by Rohingya within Myanmar – including mass violence, killings and attacks, the burning and destruction of property, arbitrary arrests, detention and disappearances, the deprivation of emergency healthcare and humanitarian aid. Such human rights abuses are being carried out with impunity by civilians and agents of the state alike. The organised and widespread nature of this state sponsored violence raises serious questions of crimes against humanity being committed by Myanmar.

  7. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    October, 2012
    Myanmar

    A significant decrease in forced displacement has been documented by community‐based
    organisations in South East Myanmar after a series of ceasefire agreements were negotiated earlier this
    year. While armed conflict continues in Kachin State and communal violence rages in Rakhine State, field
    surveys indicate that that there has been a substantial decrease in hostilities affecting Karen, Karenni,
    Shan and Mon communities.
    In its annual survey of displacement and poverty released today, the Thailand Burma Border Consortium

  8. Library Resource
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    Preserving Rights to gain Benefits

    Peer-reviewed publication
    December, 2012
    Tanzania

    This chapter addresses issues related to securing access and rights to resources, and gaining benefits from the resource within the context of one community-based initiative in the village of Ololosokwan in Tanzania.


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