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Displacement and Dispossession: Forced Migration and Land Rights
Myanmar
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Ashley South, Natalie Bugalski, Deborah January, Dr Nancy...
2007
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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Alternatives to Land Grabbing: Smallholder Engagement in Commodity Booms in Southeast Asia
Myanmar
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
RobCramb,VongpaphaneManivong,JonathanNewby,KemSothorn,PatrickSujang
2015
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 ...
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Customary Land Management and Legal Frameworks: Experiences from Around the World
Myanmar
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Jason Lubanski, EthJason Lubanskinic Community Development Forum (ECDF)
2014
This purpose of this paper is to present a brief summary of the issues and current situations facing ethnic and indigenous communities around the world that are using a customar...
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Access to land title in Cambodia: A study of Systematic Land Registration in three Cambodian provinces and the Capital
Cambodia
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Grimsditch, Mark, Leakana, Kol; Sherchan, Depika
2012
The primary focus of the research was to identify when and how exclusions and other barriers are preventing people from accessing Systematic Land Registration (SLR), and how thi...
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NGOs working on land tenure and titling issues in Cambodia
Cambodia
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Open Development Cambodia
2015
A list of some NGOs working on land tenure and titling issues in Cambodia. Though Open Development Cambodia attempted to make this list as comprehensive as possible, the list do...
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Briefing Note on Business and Human Rights: Preventing, Mitigating and Remedying Land-Related Rights Violations in the Kingdom of Cambodia
Cambodia
Analysis, discussion papers, and blogs
Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR)
2018
The purpose of this Briefing Note is to identify key issues pertaining to business human rights in Cambodia through the analysis of three land-related conflicts, and to propose ...
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Community Land Titling in Thailand: The Legal Evolution and Piloting of Titling Policy
Thailand
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Daniel Hayward
2017
The purpose of this thematic study is to provide a comprehensive overview of land tenure systems in Thailand, with a focus upon the recent development of community land titling ...
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The art of not being governed: An anarchist history of upland Southeast Asia
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Books and book chapters
James C Scott
2009
This book, essentially an “anarchist history,” is the first-ever examination of the huge literature on state-making whose author evaluates why people would deliberately and reac...
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Unusual partnerships: Lessons for landscapes and livelihoods from the Doe Mae Salong landscape, Thailand
Lao People's Democratic Republic, Thailand
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Rattanasorn, Tawatchai, Fisher, Bob; Kugel, Carolin
2012
This paper describes the interventions undertaken in the Doe Mao Salong watershed in an effort to restore the landscape and improve the livelihoods of local communities. Interve...
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Does Land Tenure Security Enhance Sustainable Land Management? Evidence from Mountainous Regions of Thailand and Vietnam
Thailand, Viet Nam
Advocacy and promotional materials
Andreas Neef, Chapika Sangkapitux, Klaus Kirchmann, University of Hohenheim
2000
Neoclassical theory states that land tenure security plays an important role in determining long-term investment for sustainable land use. The case studies from Thailand and Vie...
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On stony ground: A look into social land concessions
Cambodia
Issue and policy briefs
Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights (LICADHO)
2015
LICADHO looks into "Land Allocation for Social and Economic Development (LASED)", a $13 million project which is supported by the World Bank and Deutsche Ges...
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Governing land for women and men
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Guidelines, instruction manuals, handbooks
FAO
2013
A technical guide to support the achievement of responsible gender-equitable governance of land tenure
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Final report of the social assessment for the six served provinces and two unserved provinces of the Lao PDR land titling project
Lao People's Democratic Republic
EIA/SEIA
Burapha Development Consultants
2003
A social assessment study of the provinces affected in the Government of Laos' land titling project. Includes findings and issues of the social assessment, implications to proje...
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Rights and obligations of Lao citizens on land
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Advocacy and promotional materials
Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.
All ethnic groups are equal in terms of law and land use right.
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Experience of the community-based watershed management project in Pakbeng District, Oudomxay Province
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Conference/workshop proceedings and presentations
Satomi Higashi, LIWG, Mekong Watch
2014
A presentation to a workshop of the Land Information Working Group on a watershed management and communal land titling project in Oudomxay province.
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Land concessions, land tenure, and livelihood change: Plantation development in Attapeu province, southern Laos
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Miles Kenney-Lazar, Fulbright Scholar & Visiting Research...
2010
This paper seeks to add to the growing literature on land concessions by examining a recent, high-level concession as a means of understanding three aspects related to concessio...
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Land tenure security
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Conference/workshop proceedings and presentations
Land Management & Rural Economic Development (LM - RED), GIZ
2014
An efficient Model for systematic Land Registration (SLR) is approved design & test SLR Model based on practical land registration activities in LNT; training in survey technolo...
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Enhancing land ownership through communal land titling and the national land policy
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Conference/workshop proceedings and presentations
Nishan Disanayake , Land Information Working Group
2012
A presentation of the Land Information Working Group discussing issues related to communal land and policy recommendations for communal land titling and the national land policy.
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International knowledge sharing and learning workshop on forest and land tenure
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Conference/workshop proceedings and presentations
National Assembly of Lao PDR, RECOFTC, RRI
2012
Proceedings from a National Assembly of Laos workshop centered on forest and land tenure rights, with goals to: -learn from the experience of other countries how they have d...
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Supporting the resolution of tenure-related disputes
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Guidelines, instruction manuals, handbooks
FAO, EU
2014
This lesson will introduce a range of dispute resolution mechanisms that can contribute to a coherent dispute resolution system. We will review their relative advantages and dra...