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Small-scale farmers in Myanmar, where the economy and politics have just recently been liberalized, are witnessing rapid changes driven by international investors. Laws are bein...

The information in this book is based on the research entitled, “Fisheries Impacts of Hydropower Dams on Thai Mekong Tributary Rivers.” The main areas of study are located in La...

We are living in an era of unprecedented wealth coupled with unprecedented inequality. Richest one percent of the global population owns the 82% of the wealth created in 2017.2 ...

More than 2 million Cambodians currently have a loan with a microfinance institution, or MFI. Levels of debt have skyrocketed in recent years, leading to a number of human right...

The Kunming-Vientiane (K-V) railway, part of the Kunming-Singapore multi-country rail network (or Pan-Asia Railway), is an anchor investment of the Chinese governments Belt and ...

The report was the result of ANFREL's missions to observe Cambodia's 2017 commune council elections from 12 May to 5 June 2017. ANFREL deployed 36 observers throughout Cambodia ...

This paper investigates the case of a recent boom in commercial banana cultivation in Luang Namtha Province, Lao PDR, we use a grounded empirical approach starting with the obs...

The purpose of this booklet is to provide an overview of best practices with regards to use of social media for human rights-related work.The booklet highlig...

From the foreword: "This first edition of the Directory of the National Assembly is designed to provide all citizens with the tools and information necessary to better understan...

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...

It is increasingly being recognised that governments hold information not for themselves but, rather, on behalf of the public and that, as a result, public bodies should provide...

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...

This report investigates the potential for Cambodia to diversify its power supply technology mix, for greater energy security and sustainability benefits, given changing techno...

Estimates of REDD+ costs have long been criticized for excluding transaction and implementation costs and undervaluing informal market activities such as subsistence farming. ...

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...

The report is a result of a two-day post-election conference in February 2004, aiming to bring together Cambodian election stakeholders, irrespective of their party affiliations...

Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR) has been experiencing significant forest depletion since the 1980s, but there is little evidence to demonstrate the major causes and under...

A report by Jean-Christophe Diepart on They Will Need Land, The current land tenure situation and future land allocation needs of smallholder farmers in Cambodia.

To guide sustainable Blue Economy decisions, 14 voluntary Principles have been proposed for the finance and investment community. These complement existing frameworks in sustain...

Paper presented during the World Bank conference on Land 2016. During revolution and national unification, Vietnamese government nationalized agricultural and forest land thro...