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The Annual Country Reviews 2017-18
The Annual Country Reviews reflect upon current land issues in the Mekong Region, and has been produced for researchers, practitioners and policy advocates operating in the fiel...
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FAO and the SDGS, Indicators: Measuring up to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Data is a key driver of transformation across all sectors, enabling governments to achieve national policy objectives. A global indicator framework for the SDGs represents the ...
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Final list of proposed Sustainable Development Goal indicators
This global indicator framework was developed by the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on SDG Indicators (IAEG-SDGs) and agreed to, as a practical starting point at the 47th sessio...
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Ecological and socio-economic values of Mangrove ecosystems in tsunami affected areas: Rapid ecological-economic-livelihood assessment of Ban Naca and Ban Bangman in Ranong Province, Thailand
Framed after the devastation of the Indian Ocean Tsunami, the aim of this study is to explore the role that mangrove ecosystems play in providing and sustaining livelihoods thro...
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Rosewood Robbery - the Case for Thailand to List Rosewood on CITES
Illegal and unsustainable rosewood logging is the major threat to Thailand’s limited remaining forests, particularly in the northeast regions. Unprecedented demand for luxury ‘H...
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Competency standards for directors of teacher training centers
The Competency Standards for Directors of Teacher Training Centers must be measurable and so must be stated with clearly measurable indicators to determine whether they have bee...
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Land degradetion in Laos: materiality and discourses
what is implicit in a number of governmental reports is that upland populations are practicing an environmentally-destructive agriculture with no regard for the good common sens...
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Making the Case: Effective Public Participation is Good for Business in the Mekong Region
This report attempts to fill this gap by sharing conversations with company representatives with business in one or more Mekong country (Cambodia, Laos PDR, Myanmar, Thailand ...
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Smallholder market participation, structural transformation and inclusive growth in Lao People’s Democratic Republic
This report is an outcome of a collaborative effort between CAPSA and the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of Lao PDR, aimed at understanding the nature of struc...
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Transitioning from the MDGs to the SDGs
This report synthesizes the main lessons learned from the MDG Reviews conducted by the UN System Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB) between April 2013 and November 20...
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Regional Road Map for Implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific
The countries of Asia and the Pacific have developed a regional road map for implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to facilitate cooperation at the regional l...
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Turning Land into Capital, Turning People into Labour: Primitive Accumulation and the Arrival of Large-Scale Economic Land Concessions in the Lao People's Democratic Republic.
In recent years the government of Laos has provided many foreign investors with large-scale economic land concessions to develop plantations. These concessions have resulted in ...
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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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Environmental Impact Assessments in Developing Countries: An Opportunity for Greater Environmental Security?
The first half of this Working Paper will give a background of the origins and development of environmental impact assessments. The second half of the paper will focus on enviro...
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Myanmar analysis of farm production economics
An report prepared by the World Bank in partnership with the Livelihoods and Food Security Multi-Donor Trust Fund on the Myanmar. An analysis of farm production economics publis...
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ADB and the Sustainable Development Goals
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent a universal call to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure peace and prosperity for all. They form part of the 2030 Ag...
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A study on the Customary Use Right of Ethnic Communities to Forest and Forest Land in Vietnam
This report presents an overview of ethnic communities in Vietnam, including their history and development, community structure, living space, population and distribution, and t...
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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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Natural Resources of Myanmar (Burma): Ownership, Management, Revenue Sharing and Impacts
This research paper explores the natural resource governance Myanmar specifically the governance of oil and gas extraction in Rakhine State and jade extraction in Kachin State t...
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“Nothing Is Like It Was Before”: The Dynamics between Land-Use and Land-Cover, and Livelihood Strategies in the Northern Vietnam Borderlands
Land uses are changing rapidly in Vietnam’s upland northern borderlands. Regional development platforms such as the Greater Mekong Subregion, state-propelled market integration...