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River deltas: scaling up community-driven approaches to sustainable intensification

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2018
Laos, Bangladesh, Vietnam, China, Myanmar, Cambodia, India, Thailand
youth
water management
land use
The residents of the Ganges and Mekong River deltas face serious challenges from rising sea levels, saltwater intrusion, pollution from upstream sources, growing populations, and infrastructure that no longer works as planned. In both deltas, scientists working for nearly two decades with communities, local governments and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have demonstrated the potential to overcome these challenges and substantially improve people’s livelihoods.
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Ceasefire capitalism: military–private partnerships, resource concessions and military–state building in the Burma–China borderlands

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2011
Myanmar
Land & Investments
land grabbing
extractive industries
tenure security
land ownership
land investments
land acquisitions
poverty
Since ceasefire agreements were signed between the Burmese military government and ethnic political groups in the Burma–China borderlands in the early 1990s, violent waves of counterinsurgency development have replaced warfare to target politically-suspect, resource-rich, ethnic populated borderlands. The Burmese regime allocates land concessions in ceasefire zones as an explicit postwar military strategy to govern land and populations to produce regulated, legible, militarized territory.
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Increase the use of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure among CSOs and Grassroots Organizations - Malawi

Institutional & promotional materials
May, 2018
Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Guatemala, Colombia, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Indonesia, Myanmar, Philippines, Nepal, Sweden, Belgium, Netherlands
VGGT
land tenure
grassroots organizations
Increase the use of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure among CSOs and Grassroots Organizations – Malawi is a country factsheet that provides information on the project “Increase the use of the VGGT among CSOs and Grassroots Organizations”, a general overview of governance of natural resources in the country, and information on activities undertaken in the country in collaboration with local CSOs and grassroots organizations.
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Increase the use of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure among CSOs and Grassroots Organizations - Mongolia

Institutional & promotional materials
June, 2018
Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Guatemala, Colombia, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Indonesia, Myanmar, Philippines, Nepal, Belgium, Netherlands
VGGT
land governance
land tenure
grassroots organizations
Increase the use of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure among CSOs and Grassroots Organizations – Mongolia is a country factsheet that provides information on the project “Increase the use of the VGGT among CSOs and Grassroots Organizations”, a general overview of governance of natural resources in the country, and information on activities undertaken in the country in collaboration with local CSOs and grassroots organizations.
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Mekong Land Research Forum: Annual country reviews 2018-19

Policy Papers & Briefs
February, 2019
Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
Forest Tenure
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
Urban Tenure
compensation
concession (land)
encroachment
farmers
forest conservation
forest land
grassroots organizations
land acquisitions
land conflicts
land dispute
land dispute resolution
land distribution
land grabbing
land investments
land law
land markets
land registration
land rights activists
land transactions
landlessness
property rights
research
tenure security
state property
sustainable development
urbanization
waste (abuse)
The Annual Country Reviews reflect upon current land issues in the Mekong Region, and has been produced for researchers, practitioners and policy advocates operating in the field. Specialists have been selected from Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam to briefly answer the following two questions:

1. What are the most pressing issues involving land governance in your country?

2. What are the most important issues for the researcher on land?
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Increase the use of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure among CSOs and Grassroots Organizations - Myanmar - Côte d’Ivoire - Guinea

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2018
Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire, Myanmar
VGGT
land governance
land law
land reform
tenure security
advocacy
capacity development
grassroots organizations
local communities
The Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (VGGT) set out internationally-accepted principles and standards for responsible practices, providing a framework for governments, the private sector and civil society to use when developing policies and programmes for improving food security.
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What Awaits Myanmar’s Uplands Farmers? Lessons Learned from Mainland Southeast Asia

Peer-reviewed publication
February, 2019
Myanmar
agricultural land management
farmers
farming systems
intensive land use
land access
land conflicts
land reform
land use
local communities
research
rural development
tenure security
Mainland Southeast Asia (MSA) has seen sweeping upland land use changes in the past decades, with transition from primarily subsistence shifting cultivation to annual commodity cropping. This transition holds implications for local upland communities and ecosystems. Due to its particular political regime, Myanmar is at the tail of this development.
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Persistence and change in Hakha Chin land and resource tenure

A study on land dynamics in the periphery of Hakha

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2018
Myanmar
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
agriculture
customary tenure
farming systems
forest land
land
land tenure
land use
local communities
research
rural areas
urbanization
The research provides a holistic overview of the key changes that affected Northern Chin society from pre-colonial times up to now in villages close to Hakha town where State penetration was stronger than in more remote

areas. The study sheds light on the overlapping and evolving statutory and customary land systems and on the issues faced by contemporary Chin communities as they seek to govern land and natural resources.
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Southeast Asian agriculture: Why such rapid growth?

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2013
Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
Land & Food Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
agriculture
agricultural land management
sustainable land management
sustainable land use
farmers
farming systems
food security
environment
Since the early 1960s, notwithstanding dire predictions of agricultural theorists and colonial observers, agricultural growth has been strong among most Southeast Asian countries. More recently, this expansion has reached the maritime domain, with the rapid development of aquatic production through sea-based aquaculture among others. In recent territorial expansion and increase in yields for export crops has been faster than for food crops.
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The Political Economy of Myanmar’s Transition

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2014
Myanmar
Land & Investments
land grabbing
extractive industries
tenure security
land ownership
land distribution
land reform
land investments
land acquisitions
land policies
land law
Since holding elections in 2010, Myanmar has transitioned from a direct military dictatorship to a formally democratic system and has embarked on a period of rapid economic reform. After two decades of military rule, the pace of change has startled almost everyone and led to a great deal of cautious optimism. To make sense of the transition and assess the case for optimism, this article explores the political economy of Myanmar’s dual transition from state socialism to capitalism and from dictatorship to democracy.