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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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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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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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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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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...
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How Land Concessions Affect Places Elsewhere: Telecoupling, Political Ecology, and Large-Scale Plantations in Southern Laos and Northeastern Cambodia
Over the last decade considerable research has been conducted on the development and the impacts of large-scale economic land concession s for plantations in Laos and Cambodia.
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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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Lessons for the Potential Use of Contract Farming with Small Land Holding Farmers in Myanmar
This paper will examine the possible use of contract farming with small land holding farmers as a tool to capitalize on the opportunity to improve the economic growth of Myanmar...
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Lessons learnt of communal land titling for indigenous community in La In village Ratanakiri province, Northeast Cambodia
Documentation on lessons learnt was done in order to enhance the knowledge of indigenous people and other stakeholders so they would understand the process of land titling for i...
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Pattern of land cover change in the Lower Mekong Basin, the role of mesoscale approaches
A summary of 2006 PhD thesis about the role of mesoscale approaches in the pattern of land cover change in the Lower Mekong Basin. The author of the thesis seeks to generate a c...
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Evaluation of how multi-purpose farming impacts the food security of small land-holding farmers in Cambodia
Outline of research to investigate the potential impact of multi-purpose farming on the food security of small-scale landholding farmers and its viability as a food insecurity-...
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Legal analysis of communal land and communal title in the Lao PDR July, 2009
The purpose of this brief report is to gather, review and analyze the current 1 legislation relevant to collective property, to make suggestions for modifications to the Right...
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Assessment of land use, forest policy and governance in Cambodia
An assessment to identify key drivers of deforestation and/or forest degradation in Cambodia and review past efforts to reduce deforestation and forest degradation, in order to ...
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Land and Forest Tenure in Laos: Baseline Overview 2016 with Options for Community Participation in Forest Management
This review describes seven sets of processes that influence this context, and therefore shape land and forest tenure in contemporary Laos. These include: 1. Macro-scale forest...
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Women Migration and Women's Land Tenure Security in the greater Mekong sub-region
This report considers the interlinkages between migration, gender, and land tenure. The study on which the report is based explored how migration affects women’s land tenure sec...
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Visualizing land concessions over time (Screen shot of Evergreen Success and Asia Resort concession)
A screenshot of an interactive map showing ELC granted to Evergreen Success & Asia Resort in 2007.
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Hungry for land: Small farmers feed the world with less than a quarter of all farmland
It is commonly heard today that small farmers produce most of the world's food. But how many of us realise that they are doing this with less than a quarter of the world's farml...
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Restoring Land Rights: Pathways for the recognition of customary tenure in Myanmar
This publication is providing guidance to civil society organisations and other reform actors in Myanmar about how to recognise and protect customary tenure in both policy and p...
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Assessment of the Credit Opportunities for Indigenous Communities in Cambodia Holding a Collective Land Title
To explore the reports that it might be more difficult for members of indigenous communities with collective title to access finance, OHCHR commissioned an in-depth review of th...