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Community Organizations Food Security Working Group
Food Security Working Group
Food Security Working Group
Acronym
FSWG
Network
University or Research Institution
Phone number
09 4250 26461~2

Location

114 Dana Theikdi Street, Ward No.8
Mayangone Township
Yangon
Yangon
Myanmar
Working languages
Burmese
English

What is the FSWG?

The FSWG professional network of local, international NGOs, Community Based Organizations and individuals who are working and interested in food security related issues in Myanmar. The FSWG addresses cross-cutting social, economic, ethnic, and environmental issues in food security through capacity building, managing knowledge and information, and advocacy, through effective network collaboration, communication, monitoring and evaluation, and organisational performance.

Vision

For all women, men and children of Myanmar, at all times, to have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy lifestyle.

Mission

  • To improve the quality of, and the enabling environment for, food security interventions and policies implemented in Myanmar through mobilising the collective capacities of the network to:
  • Build the capacity of food security actors in Myanmar to deliver food security programs;
  • Manage information and knowledge that enables more effective action to achieve food security in Myanmar;
  • Advocate to decision-makers within political, economic, and social systems and institutions that effect food security in Myanmar so that they are influenced to take action for greater food security;
  • Coordinate the utilisation of scarce resources and capabilities for addressing food security in Myanmar; and
  • Enable the FSWG to maintain the highest standards of excellence and integrity for a network organisation, responding to the needs of its members by being efficient, transparent, impact-oriented, collaborative, communicative, and enabling.

Members:

Resources

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Land Tenure: A foundation for food security in Myanmar’s uplands (English)

Policy Papers & Briefs
November, 2010
Myanmar

Access to land for smallholder farmers is a critical foundation for food security in Myanmar's uplands. Land tenure guarantees seem to be eroding and access to land becoming more difficult in some upland areas. If this trend continues it may have negative impacts for food security and undermine environmental and economic sustainability. This briefing paper explores the relationship between land tenure and food security, as well as key institutional and other factors that influence land access and tenure for smallholder farmers in the uplands today.

Land Tenure: A foundation for food security in Myanmar’s uplands (Burmese/ မြန်မာဘာသာ )

Policy Papers & Briefs
November, 2010
Myanmar

Access to land for smallholder farmers is a critical foundation for food security in Myanmar's uplands. Land tenure guarantees seem to be eroding and access to land becoming more difficult in some upland areas. If this trend continues it may have negative impacts for food security and undermine environmental and economic sustainability. This briefing paper explores the relationship between land tenure and food security, as well as key institutional and other factors that influence land access and tenure for smallholder farmers in the uplands today...

Turning land into capital

Reports & Research
November, 2007
Laos

A report commissioned by the Working Group on Land Issues. This report’s intended audience is the staff and government partners of the Lao INGO Network, as well as others who are interested in social issues (and within these I include economic, environmental, legal and political ones) associated with land concessions for investment. Readers wanting a summary of the material presented may wish to focus on the introductory sections (1 and 2), the conclusion (section 4).