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Nothing sweet about it: how sugar fuels land grabs
Land grabbing is a bitter secret in the sugar supply chains of some of the world’s biggest food and beverage companies. Poor communities across the globe are in dispute or hav...
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Thailand’s Land Bridge: Navigating Geopolitical and Investor Concerns
• Thailand’s land bridge project aims to establish a vital trade route between the Andaman Sea and the Gulf of Thailand, offering an alternative to the congested Malacca Strait....
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Research Report: Political Role of Customary Law in Ethnic Minority Community Development in Vietnam
Under the project "Capacity Building for the Vietnam Lawyers Association", UNDP supported the Social Policy and Environment Research Institute (SPERI) in collaboration with The ...
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Infographic of Social Land Concession Program in Cambodia
This Social Land Concession infographic was coproduced by Open Development Cambodia (ODC) and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Cambodia, funded by...
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Struggling against excuses: winning back land in Cambodia
This paper focuses on one community in Cambodia that won back land from a large land deal by grabbing onto the rupture in property relations initiated by a one-year land titling...
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Displacement and Dispossession: Forced Migration and Land Rights
This report, Displacement and Dispossession: Forced Migration and Land Rights in Burma focuses on land confiscation by Government forces, responsible for Burma’s most acute Hous...
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High price of land, the deadly eviction of Kbal Spean
This case study discusses the mass eviction that took place on 21 March 2005 in Kbal Spean village, near the Thai-Cambodian border at Poipet. The eviction resulted in deaths an...
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Thailand’s 20 year program to title rural land (draft)
In 1982 the population of Thailand was about 48 million and there was increasing pressure on land resources. This paper describes how the Department of Lands designed and implem...
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Recognizing and Reducing Corruption Risks in Land Management in Vietnam
Since Doi moi, Vietnam has been in a process of rapid and continuous economic growth and social transformation, in which land issues have come to the fore in a variety of ways...
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The Decree of the President of the Lao PDR on the Promulgation of the Value Added Tax Law (revised) No 033 / PDT, Vientiane, 30.01.2015
Determine the principles, procedures, methods and measures for the management and monitoring of value added tax to encourage the production of goods and services.
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Securing Land Rights of Smallholder Farmers The Secure Access to Land and Resources (SALaR) Project Experience in Laos, the Philippines, and Uganda
The Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM) is considered as one of the pilot land management platforms that has been initiatively developed as capacity building and tool development ...
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Cambodia. Land cleared for rubber rights bulldozed: The impact of rubber plantations by Socfin-KCD on indigenous communities in Bousra, Mondulkiri
An extensive research paper on national and international legal frameworks on labor, land and indigenous people's rights as well as on land management, land concessions and disp...
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Companies invested in economic land concession who registered their contracts with the Ministry of Agriculture: 80. Mohiba Mazu-on Kampuchea Dairy Co., Ltd (Mo Hy Pa Masu Orn Kampuchea Co., Ltd?)
A webpage list showing the date of ELC contract, the ELC location and size, status of EIA and land registration, and type of crops invested by the concessionaire Mohiba Masu-on ...
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Handbook on the rights and duties of the village in the management and use of land and forest resources
Handbook on the rights and duties of the village in the management and use of land and forest resources
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Simulating the impact of future land use and climate change on soil erosion and deposition in the Mae Nam Nan sub-catchment, Thailand
This paper evaluates the possible impacts of climate change and land use change and its combined effects on erosion and deposition in the Mae Nam Nan sub-catchment, Thailand. So...
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Resolution of the National Assembly on Land Management and Use No. 65 / SRP-VI, Vientiane, June 30, 2010
Resolution of the National Assembly on Land Management and Use No. 65 / SRP-VI, Vientiane, June 30, 2010
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Land and forest allocation and its implication on forest management and household livelihoods: comparison of case studies from CBNRM Research in central Laos 2004
Community based natural resource management became increasingly important in Laos during the 1990s. The Land and Forest Allocation (LFA) is a landmark reform ...
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Decree of the President of the Lao People's Democratic Republic on the lease rates and concessions of the State Land
Decree of the President of the Lao People's Democratic Republic on the lease rates and concessions of the State Land
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Agreement on the establishment of information centers in the area of the Center for Land Survey and Planning
Agreement on the establishment of information centers in the area of the Center for Land Survey and Planning
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Guideline of Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry No. 0822 / CP, dated 02/08/1996 on Land Allocation - For the Management and Use
Guideline of Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry No. 0822 / CP, dated 02/08/1996 on Land Allocation - For the Management and Use