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Cambodia: Land in conflict, an overview of the land situation
In light of the increasingly volatile nature of the land conflict in Cambodia, this report aims to describe the sources, forms and impact of the conflict throughout the country....
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Land Rights Matter! Anchors to Reduce Land Grabbing, Dispossession and Displacement
A comparative study of land rights systems in Southeast Asia and the potential of national and international legal frameworks and guidelines.
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Land tenure security and poverty reduction
"Land is fundamental to the lives of poor rural people. It is a source of food, shelter, income and social identity. Secure access to land reduces vulnerability to hunger and...
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Human security and land rights in Cambodia
The report of a project exploring human security and land rights in Cambodia. The project used a human security framework to address two questions: (1) What kind of insecurities...
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The 2003 agricultural census (Thailand)
A report on Thailand’s 2003 Agricultural Census. The report outlines the census aims, methodology and summarises the findings. Graphs are provided on number of agricultural...
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Concession bibliography
The concession biography is compiled by the land and livelihood program of NGO Forum on Cambodia. A list of the publications and laws extends over various issues of (economic...
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Thailand’s 20 year program to title rural land (draft)
In 1982 the population of Thailand was about 48 million and there was increasing pressure on land resources. This paper describes how the Department of Lands designed and...
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Legal Review of Recently Enacted Farmland Law and Vacant, Fallow and Virgin Lands Management Law
A legal review of Myanmar's 'Farmland Law' and 'Vacant, Fallow and Virgin Lands Management Law', published by Food Security Working Group’s Land Core Group in November 2012
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Asia's agrarian reform in reverse: laws taking land out of small farmers' hands
The April 2015 edition of Against the Grain -- a report by Genetic Resources Action International (GRAIN) on laws and mechanisms in Asia that result in land transfer from...
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Land policy and land law: extended synopsis
An extended abstract of Natalia Scurrah and Philip Hirsch's report on land law in the Mekong region, published by Mekong Land Research Forum.
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Cambodian peasant's contribution to rural development: a perspective from Kampong Thom Province
The paper aims to identify the rationality of peasant communities and their contribution to rural development in Kampong Thom province. To do so, the authors explore the...
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Eviction and resettlement in Cambodia: human costs, impacts and solutions
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Cambodia (OHCHR) has undertaken the present study to measure the human and socio-economic costs and impacts of...
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CSO land reform monitoring
Paper prepared by Roel R. Ravanera for the Asian NGO Coalition for Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (ANGOC) and Land Watch Asia (LWA) examines progress in land reform in...
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Land situation in Cambodia 2013
This report provides background on Cambodia's legal framework, as well as data on the granting of social land concessions, reclassification of land, the land titling program,...
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The exclusion of urban poor communities from systematic land registration in Phnom Penh
This study explores the reasons behind the government’s exclusion of many Phnom Penh urban poor communities (UPCs) from the Systematic Land Registration (SLR) process, and the...
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Holding on: Security of tenure, types, policies, practices and challenges
This review, prepared for the Special Rapporteur to Brazil, Raquel Rolnik, seeks to present a summary of the issues involved in addressing tenure security and insecurity. The...
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New actions and existing policies: The implementation and impacts of Order 01
Order 01 on Measures for Strengthening and Increasing the Effectiveness of the Management of Economic Land Concessions (Order 01) declared a moratorium on the granting of new...
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Land for my grandchildren: land-use and tenure change in Ratanakiri 1989-2007
This paper draws on case studies from three communities in Ratanakiri to illustrate both the forces driving land-use and tenure change as well as how effective community...
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Old policies - new action: a surprising political initiative to recognize human rights in Cambodian land reform
Under the motto 'old policies, new action', in June 2012 the Cambodian Prime Minister initiated a massive land registration campaign on untitled former forest land. Unauthorised...
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Better land access for the rural poor: lessons from experience and challenges ahead
"This study highlights lessons from recent policy, law and practice to improve and secure access to rural land for poorer groups. It focuses on Africa, Latin America and Asia,...