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Are the Odds for Justice ‘Stacked Against’ Them? Challenges and Opportunities to Securing Land Claims by Smallholder Farmers in Myanmar

Policy Papers & Briefs
Abril, 2015
Myanmar

Abstract:
"In 2012, the Government of Myanmar (GoM) passed
the Farmland Law and the Vacant, Fallow, Virgin
(VFV) Land Law—creating a formalized land market. In essence, this created a formalized land
market. Land titling is often considered “the natural end point of land rights formalization” (Hall et al.
2010: 35). This thinking has become dominant among most governments and development agencies
ever since De Soto (2000) popularized it in
The Mystery of Capital
, in which he argued that the

Myanmar: Land Tenure Issues and the Impact on Rural Development

Reports & Research
Abril, 2015
Myanmar

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
"Myanmar’s agricultural sector has for long suffered due to multiplicity of laws and regulations, deficient and degraded infrastructure, poor policies and planning, a chronic lack of credit, and an absence of tenure security for cultivators. These woes negate Myanmar’s bountiful natural endowments and immense agricultural potential, pushing its rural populace towards dire poverty.

Experiencias de arraigo y organización campesina

Reports & Research
Abril, 2015
Paraguai

Esta publicación es una compilación de los ocho casos exitosos de acceso a la tierra elaborados por investigadores de la organización paraguaya Base Investigaciones Sociales para la plataforma del Movimiento Regional por la Tierra y el Territorio. Estos casos muestran cómo las poblaciones rurales, protagonistas de estas experiencias,han logrado asentarse, organizarse,producir y desarrollarse en contextos adversos, y se han constituido en casos emblemáticos de defensa de la viabilidad del modo de ser campesino e indígena en Paraguay.

Burma’s Revolution From Below

Reports & Research
Abril, 2015
Myanmar

Elites still think they’re running the show. But farmers are increasingly taking matters into their own hands.....In the streets, paths, and paddy fields of hundreds of Burmese towns and villages, thousands of protesters are mobilizing, in creative and often radical ways, for everything from constitutional change, to educational liberalization, to improved labor standards, to fair energy prices.

La Agroecología en el Ecuador: Apuntes para su reflexión

Training Resources & Tools
Abril, 2015
Equador

La  presente cartilla recoge, primero: un artículo que motiva sobre las razones para hablar sobre agroecología en el Ecuador, segundo: los resultados preliminares del estudio de caso en la provincia de Pichincha y su comparación con productores de Loja y Guayas; lo cual nos a conocer tiplogías de productores y sus momentos de transición hacia la agroecología.

Guns, Cronies and Crops - How military, political and business cronies have conspired to grab land in Myanmar (English, Burmese မန်မာဘာသာ)

Reports & Research
Março, 2015
Myanmar

As Myanmar’s junta prepared to step down from government, the military set about seizing public assets and natural resources to ensure its economic control in a new era of democratic rule.

Guns, Cronies and Crops details the collusion at the heart of operations carried out by Myanmar’s armed forces in northeastern Shan State. Large swathes of land were taken from farming communities in the mid-2000s and handed to companies and political associates to develop rubber plantations.

Guns, Cronies and Crops - How military, political and business cronies have conspired to grab land in Myanmar (Burmese မန်မာဘာသာ)

Reports & Research
Março, 2015
Myanmar

As Myanmar’s junta prepared to step down from government, the military set about seizing public assets and natural resources to ensure its economic control in a new era of democratic rule. Guns, Cronies and Crops details the collusion at the heart of operations carried out by Myanmar’s armed forces in northeastern Shan State. Large swathes of land were taken from farming communities in the mid-2000s and handed to companies and political associates to develop rubber plantations.

The Asia Highway: Planned Eindu to Kawkareik Town road construction threatens villagers’ livelihoods

Reports & Research
Março, 2015
Myanmar

This News Bulletin describes the proposed construction of a portion of the Asia Highway from Eindu to Kawkareik Town, crossing 17 different villages and one town in Hpa-an, Kyonedoe and Kawkareik townships in Dooplaya and Hpa-an districts. The Burma/Myanmar government has demarcated the route and plans to construct the road with funding from the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The planning of the project has thus far been carried out with little consultation with local communities, who remain suspicious of such projects.

On The Land We Live - A film about land reform in Myanmar (video)

Policy Papers & Briefs
Março, 2015
Myanmar

Documentary by the Land Core Group Myanmar, where 70% of the Myanmar population are smallholder farmers, about the challenges faced by poor farmers from land grabbing and land dispossession in rural Myanmar...Interviews with land activists and dispossessed farmers in different parts of the country... sections on: resistance to land-grabbing; Myanmar land law and policies (where customary tenure and women's land rights are not explicitly recognised); efficiency of smallholder practice...

Unjust Enrichment

Journal Articles & Books
Reports & Research
Fevereiro, 2015
Quênia

Illegal and irregular allocations of public land were a common feature of the Moi regime and perhaps it’s most pervasive corrupt practice. The Ndung’u Report as well as various reports of the Public Investment Committee details numerous cases of public land illegal allocated to individuals and companies in total disregard of the law and public interest. Most allocations were made to politically correct individuals without justification and resulted in individuals being unjustly enriched at great cost to the people of Kenya.