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In March, 2018, the Myanmar REDD+ program released its National REDD+ strategy draft report. Forest Trends has provided the following comments to the report authors in hopes tha...

This decree comprises of 8 articles, identified what is the controlled list of concession, and the role of each government unit who will take in charge of controlled list of con...

The Decision, which is posted on the official gazette, permits individuals, legal entities and organisations to establish and operate zoos, wildlife farms, and wild fauna and fl...

Welcome to the first issue of the Myanmar Economic Bulletin, the flagship publication of the Myanmar Development Institute (MDI). A think-tank established by the notification fr...

Members of parliament play a key role in monitoring the implementation of oil, gas, and mineral contracts. Public disclosure of such contracts is a critical prerequisite for p...

Given the widespread smallholder impulse to engage in commodity booms in Southeast Asia and the potential for this engagement to offer a more inclusive development pathway than ...

My discussion with Mrs Khamtanh is relevant for thinking about how peoples conceptualizations of land have changed in Laos, not only between non-communist and communist periods,...

A report exploring the impacts of the Xayaburi Dam on food security in the Mekong. The authors outline the importance of the Mekong for food security, and food concerns in reset...

The two mining concession areas are opened for domestic and international mining companies to apply for metallic mineral exploration from the notification date until 30 August 2...

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 fiel...

"Since the adoption of China's 'going out' strategy, Chinese enterprises have been strongly encouraged to engage overseas in a range of sectors, including agriculture. This has ...

The profile page informs the state for open data in Lao PDR in 2018. Lao PDR ranks 162 in the Open Data Inventory 2018 with an overall score of 22%. The overall score is a combi...

In recent years there has been considerable controversy in the Lao Peoples Democratic Republic (Lao PDR or Laos) regarding decisions by the government to issue long-term land co...

In June 2018, the University of Wisconsin Press published a new book about the Nam Theun 2 Hydropower Project in Laos. The books findings relate to issues of environmental susta...

This report addresses the complex issue of shifting cultivation, which was brought up at the 2011 Round Table Implementation Meeting between the Lao government and international...

The Ethnic Group Development Plan (EGDP) provides a strategy and a programmatic approach to enhance the inclusion of different ethnic groups in the Health Services Improvement P...

This paper begins with the global context of the rubber expansion. The paper then summarises what have been seen as the upland problems and some limited success to resolve the u...

This document is the Ethnic Group Engagement Framework (EGEF) for the proposed Lao Agriculture Commercialization Project (ACP) prepared in conjunction with the Lao PDR Ministry ...

The new wave of political reforms have set Myanmar on a road to unprecedented economic expansion, but, without targeted policy efforts and regulation to even the playing field, ...

The proposed Health Sector Governance Program will be implemented nationally with the overarching goal to increase access, quality, and utilization of essential health services,...