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Agro-Business Large Scale Land Acquisition in Myanmar: current situation and ways forward
This presentation summarizes an on-going research in Myanmar, carried out by renowned agricultural specialist U San Thein and a team of experts, with the support of MRLG. This r...
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Reform of State-Owned Forest Enterprises and Ethnic Minority Land Tenure Security In Vietnam
Paper presented during the World Bank conference on Land 2016. During revolution and national unification, Vietnamese government nationalized agricultural and forest land thro...
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Coupling SWAT with land cover and hydropower models for sustainable development in the Mekong Basin
A presentation on coupling SWAT with land cover and hydropower models for sustainable development in the Mekong Basin. The presenter uses the case study of the Sekong, Sesan and...
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Old policies - new action: a surprising political initiative to recognize human rights in Cambodian land reform
Under the motto 'old policies, new action', in June 2012 the Cambodian Prime Minister initiated a massive land registration campaign on untitled former forest land. Unauthorised...
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Key Themes in Land Governance: Synopses of Research, Policy and Action in the Mekong Region
The Mekong region is marked by particular kinds of historical and contemporary land uses, social relations around land, interactions within and across national borders, and patt...
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Law Approving the Kingdom of Camboida to Join United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances
This Convention provides comprehensive measures against drug trafficking, including provisions against money laundering and the diversion of precursor chemical...
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Contribution of Open Data to the Protection of Indigenous People’s Livelihood, Land Security and Natural Resource Sustainability
The overall objective of this paper is to follow up on the research that aims to understand how indigenous communities’statistics have been widely used in development projects i...
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Inter and intra-farm land fragmentation in Viet Nam
This paper uses panel data at commune, household, and plot levels to study the causes and effects of agricultural land fragmentation in rural Viet Nam. We focus on both inter-fa...
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Small-scale land acquisitions, large-scale implications: The case of Chinese banana investments in Northern Laos
In the context of the ‘global land grab’, the Lao Peoples Democratic Republic has been identified as a hotspot for large-scale land acquisitions sought by capital strong foreign...
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The great Cambodian giveaway: Visualizing land concessions over time of Snoul Investment
This screen shot demonstrates an interactive map of the land concession granted to Snoul Investment in 2007 posted on LICADHO's website.
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Duties of notification, prior consultation, and assessment arising from international law in relation to the Xayaburi dam project in northern Lao PDR
This legal briefing note, the first of a series on the Xayaburi dam project, aims to promote discussion among Mekong Legal Network members about potential legal strategies to...
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Sub-decree no. 14 on the land cutting of 3,555 hectares of 23 Ares of state land from the former economic land concession of Ouk Khun Industrial Crops Development Company and the reclassification of 3,319 hectares of 49 Ares preserved as state public land with an area of 235 hectares and 74 Ares in Traeng Trayueng and Yeay Mao Pichnil communes, Phnum Sruoch district, Kampong Speu province.
Sub-decree no. 14 on the land cutting of 3,555 hectares of 23 Ares of state land from the former economic land concession of Ouk Khun Industrial Crops Development Company and th...
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Large-Scale Land Acquisitions for Agricultural Development in Myanmar: A Review of Past and Current Processes
The objective of this study is to provide a synthesis of historical and contemporary processes of large-scale land acquisition for agricultural development in Myanmar. It relies...
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USAID GREENING PREY LANG Evaluation of Effectiveness of Activities For Supporting And Strengthening Protected Area Law Enforcement In the Prey Lang Extended Landscape
USAID Greening Prey Lang (GPL) conducted this Evaluation of Effectiveness of Activities for Supporting and Strengthening Protected Area Law Enforcement in the Prey Lang Extended...
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Sub-Decree no. 34 on cutting the land of 282 hectares, 79 acres, and 46 centi-acres from the Forest Cover 2002, cutting the land of 53 hectares, 47 acres, and 46 centi-acres the biodiversity conservation corridor protected area system, and reclassifying state private land for Praov indigenous communal land title in Rieng Vinh village, Ta Veaeng Leu commune, Ta Veaeng district, Ratanak kiri province as well as providing ownership rights of the plot
This sub-decree cuts the land of 282 hectares, 79 acres, and 46 centi-acres from the Forest Cover 2002, cuts the land of 53 hectares, 47 acres, and 46 centi-acres of the biodive...
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Sub-Decree no. 33 on cutting the land of 817 hectares, 46 acres, and 72 centi-acres from the Forest Cover 2002, cutting the land of 12 hectares, 32 acres and 26 centi-acres from the biodiversity conservation corridor protected area system, and reclassifying state private land for Praov indigenous communal land title in the Pangkit village, Ta Veaeng Leu commune, Ta Veaeng district, Ratanakiri province as well as providing ownership rights of the plot
This sub-decree cuts the land of 817 hectares, 46 acres, and 72 centi-acres from the Forest Cover 2002, cuts the land of 12 hectares, 32 acres, and 26 centi-acres from the biodi...
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Increasing Pressure for Land - Implications for Rural Livelihoods in Developing Countries: The Case of Cambodia
This study aims to (1) analyse the early impacts of ELCs on indigenous people in the project area of Welt hunger hilfe, (2) analyse the context and the p...
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Debt, Dispossession and Growing Inequality in Shan State: A Policy Discussion Brief on Maize Contract Farming
This policy brief, building on research conducted by the Land Core Group (LCG) [3], describes the maize contract farming scheme being implemented by Chareoun Phokphand (hereafte...
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Concessions and leases in the Lao PDR: taking stock of land investments
This report presents the first nationwide analysis of land concessions and leases in the Lao PDR. The project is a joint effort between the Ministry of Natural Resources and Env...
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Trying to follow the Money: Possibilities and limits of investor transparency in Southeast Asia’s rush for “available” land
This study uses publicly available financial and spatial data to examine the geography of land-intensive investment in Southeast Asia, and to identify the limits imposed by pro...