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  • USAID Country Profile Burma: Property Rights and Resource Governance

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  • Landowners or laborers: What choice will developing countries make?

    During 2012, a key choice facing developing countries revealed itself ever more starkly. Would they choose a development path built on inclusiveness, respect for the rights of t...

  • Forest monitoring designed for action

    Discover the world’s forests through data Explore over 100 global and local data sets to learn about conservation, land use, forest communities, and much more. This page intr...

  • The art of not being governed: An anarchist history of upland Southeast Asia

    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...

  • Drivers of Deforestation?Facts to be considered regarding the impact of shifting cultivation in Asia

    An estimated 260 million indigenous peoples live in Asia1. Most of them inhabit forested uplands where a large number of them practice shifting cultivation, which is also called...

  • A New Dawn for Equitable Growth in Myanmar? Making the Private Sector Work for Small-Scale Agriculture

    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, ...

  • Exploring local leadership in Lao-based INGOs

    The aim of this study is to understand how local leadership development is operationalised in the INGO sector in the social context of Laos. Until recently, leadership has been ...

  • Chinese Banana Plantations Lose Their Appeal in Laos as Pollution Concerns Grow

    A boom in banana demand led to heavy agricultural investment in northern Laos as Chinese investors offered strong financial incentives to farmers to change land management pract...

  • Webpage capture on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) page of the L.Y.P. Group Co., Ltd: summary in four years

    The webpage capture of the corporate social responsibility (CSR) for L.Y.P. Group Co., Ltd. has listed activities that relate to assisting and solving problems with local people...

  • Impacts of 25 years of groundwater extraction on subsidence in the Mekong delta, Vietnam

    Many major river deltas in the world are subsiding and consequently become increasingly vulnerable to flooding and storm surges, salinization and permanent inundation. For the M...

  • Combating Illegal Logging: Lessons from the EU FLEGT Action Plan

    This brochure provides an overview of the EU FLEGT Action Plan which was launched in 2003 to propose measures to fight against illegal logging and associated trade. It outlines ...

  • Status of Indigenous Peoples’ lands, territories and resources in Asia

    Indigenous Peoples, because of their subordination and distinctiveness from mainstream cultures and polities, have been and still are subjected to gross human rights violations,...

  • Cambodia's National Forest Programme: Framework document

    Cambodia's National Forest Programme is developed under observation of the principles for national forest programmes asset out by the UN Forum on Forests, as well as by national...

  • ZONED OUT: A comprehensive impact evaluation of Mekong economic development zone

    This report presents a study that applies publicly available information to assess foreign-invested economic development zones (EDZs) across the Mekong region. Analysis of EDZ's...

  • What is REDD+?

    Degradation and deforestation of the world’s tropical forests are cumulatively responsible for about 10% of net global carbon emissions. Therefore, tackling the destruction of t...

  • Forest tenure policies in Vietnam: Status, gaps and way forward

    The current regulatory framework in Viet Nam addresses the issue of forest land tenure and recognizes the rights of legitimate holders of forests and forest land. but major poli...

  • ‘REBEL’ FARMERS AND ‘UNRULY’ EMPLOYEES: THE SITUATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS PROMOTING CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY IN EAST ASIA

    This report does not contain a detailed legal analysis of the legislative frameworks governing foreign direct investment, corporate social responsibility, or land concessions in...

  • Marketing and domestication of NTFPs in north Phonsali three districts

    Elimination of opium production, Reduction of drug abuse through alternative development, demand reduction and law enforcement, Integration of the target areas into the mainstre...

  • Asia-Pacific Forests and Forestry to 2020 Forest Policy Brief 03: The Forest Diversity Challenge

    Most of the terrestrial biodiversity within the Asia-Pacific region is contained within forests. Protected areas are the mainstay for biodiversity conservation although other fo...

  • The struggle over Lao PDR’s forests: New opportunities for improved forest governance?

    The forests of Lao PDR have dramatically diminished in recent decades. The main drivers of deforestation are changes in land use with forests being converted to agriculture, hyd...

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