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Myanmar balances forestry exports with preservation
The forestry sector has been vitally important to Myanmar. When the country was isolated by sanctions, the selling of logs and wood helped bring in desperately needed hard curre...
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Interview with grant evans
Transcript of an interview conducted with historian Grant Evans, an anthropologist who specialized in Laos and produced numerous academic works about the country. Published in t...
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Manual participatory agriculture and forest land use planning at village and village cluster levels
The objective of this MOU is to formalize arrangements between the parties regarding development, dissemination and use of the manual (the Manual) on participatory ...
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Tyrants, Tycoons and Tigers: Yuzana Company Ravages Burmas Hugawng Valley
A bitter land struggle is unfolding in northern Burma’s remote Hugawng Valley. Farmers that have been living for generations in the valley are defying one of the country’s most ...
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Myanmar Economic Bulletin: Volume 1, Number 1
Welcome to the first issue of the Myanmar Economic Bulletin, the flagship publication of the Myanmar Development Institute (MDI). A think-tank established by the notification fr...
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Laos Statistical Yearbook 2017
The statistics yearbook are summarizing the data from provincial statistics Centre and from the line ministries concerned and ministry-equivalent agencies in the whole country i...
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Synergies Among Social Safeguards in FLEGT and REDD+ in Cameroon
This paper presents (i) a comparison of the social safeguards of the FLEGT-VPA and REDD+ processes and an explanation of their commonalities and differences, and (ii) an explora...
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Scoping Paper: Options for Analysing Mangrove Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity in Myanmar.
This report draws on past and ongoing research and initiatives to identify important benefits provided by mangroves within Myanmar, as well as data needs and limitations to incl...
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They will need land!
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.
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SDG 4 Monitoring: Framework Development
Education is a central theme throughout the 2030 Agenda, which includes a standalone education goal and education related targets within seven other SDGs (UIS, 2016).1 In partic...
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Global Missing Children Research, Country-Specific Findings: Lao People’s Democratic Republic
The document provides a summary of human trafficking in Lao PDR, missing child cases, child protection, and international instruments that ensure protection for children who are...
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Doing business 2014 economy profile: Cambodia
This economy profile presents the Doing Business indicators for Cambodia. To allow useful comparison, it also provides data for other selected economies (c...
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Vietnam Forestry Outlook Study
Vietnam Forestry outlook study is a part of The Asia-Pacific Forestry Sector Outlook Study (APFSOS), which is a wide-ranging initiative to gather information on, and examine, th...
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USAID country profile - Vietnam: property rights and resource governance
This report outlines land rights and land tenure issues in Vietnam. Key issues that may benefit from high impact interventions from donors are supporting women’s land rights, ad...
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Strategic Environmental Assessment in Cambodia: Development and Progress
This paper provides a historical perspective on SEA processes in Cambodia as well as describing the hierarchy of bodies responsible for its implementation. It then compares the ...
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Asia-Pacific Aspirations: Perspectives for a Post-2015 Development Agenda
The Asia-Pacific region as a whole has had considerable success with the MDGs, particularly in reducing levels of poverty. Nevertheless, the region is off track when it comes to...
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Factsheet: Agriculture in Vietnam
The importance of improving Vietnam´s agricultural system along all parts of the value chain is growing and becoming more visible. This is increasingly opening up the market for...
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Population Displacement and Forest Management in Thailand
The objective of this paper is to enhance the understanding of the recent evolution of forest policies in Thailand, of which conservation-induced displacement (CID) has come to ...
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Border Special Economic Zones Development
This document aims to provide an overview of the Special Economic Zones (SEZ) Development, including its framework, key principles, the management mechanism, the scope and defin...
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Food Systems and Natural Resources
The authors provide solid evidence on the need to transition to more ‘resource-smart food systems’, an imperative for the achievement of at least 12 out of the 17 Sustainable De...