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Assessment of the new Land Law and Forestry Law in Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Customary Tenure Rights over Land and Forests
The report explains the differences between the new Land Law and Forestry Law and their predecessor laws (the Land Law 2003 and the Forestry Law 2007). Compare the new Land La...
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Freedom to Farm: Agricultural Land Use, Crop Selection, Fallowing, and Recommended Changes to the Farmland Law to Strengthen Land Tenure Security
The freedom to farm one’s land as one chooses, as manifested in basic choices about what crops to grow, what agricultural products to produce, and when to fallow fields, is an a...
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Formalising Land, Marginalising Women? Norms and Customary Practices Regarding Land Rights in Dawei
In 2012, the Farmland Law introduced a process for registering land through Land Use Certificates. The change from a customary form of land governance to a system governed throu...
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Our Customary Lands: Community-Based Sustainable Natural Resource Management in Burma
In January 2016 the government adopted a National Land Use Policy, which included the recognition of customary land management practices. While this is a welcome fi rst step in ...
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The Urgent Need to Prepare for Climate Displacement in Myanmar: Establishing a Myanmar National Climate Land Bank
This report provides a summary of the findings from two preliminary case studies of communities considered potentially vulnerable to the impacts of extreme weather events and cl...
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Research in Brief : The Land Reinvestigation Committee
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Mekong State of the Land: Discussion Paper (First Draft)
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Mekong State of the Land: Briefing Paper
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The Impact of Armed Conflict and Displacement on Land Rights in Kachin State
Kachin internally displaced peoples (IDPs) have resided in IDP camps for over five years now due to displacement from armed conflict in northern Myanmar (Kachin and North Shan S...
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Alternative Development or Business as Usual?: Chinas Opium Substitution Policy in Burma and Laos
A significant part of opium and its derivative heroin on the market in China originates from the ‘Golden Triangle’ – roughly the area that spans northern Burma, Thailand and Lao...
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Development Without Us: Village Agency and Land Confiscations in Southeast Myanmar
Ten years since our report on ‘Village Agency: Rural Rights and Resistance in Militarised Karen State’, KHRG’s agency approach is as important as ever to understanding the exper...
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From Conflicting to Complementing: The Formalisation of Customary Land Management Systems Governing Swidden Cultivation in Myanmar
Swiddening is a traditional and widespread agricultural system in mountainous regions of Southeast Asia. It is prevalent in Myanmar’s hilly border region. However, economic, pol...
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National Updates on Agribusiness Large Scale Land Acquisitions in Southeast Asia Brief #8 of 8: Union of Burma
A growing body of literature and studies suggests that Burma has become the ‘latest flashpoint in an alarming trend’ of global land grabs. Sources suggest that the land and reso...
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Variegated borderlands governance in Dehong Dai-Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture along the China-Myanmar border
International borders and associated borderlands—especially as viewed at the national and international scales, and via regional and global-scale maps—are generally thought of a...
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Notification of the Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand No. 103/2556 Re: Land Development for Business Operators in Industrial Estates
By virtue of Section 10 (4) of the Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand Act B.E. 2522 (1979), as amended by the Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand Act (No. 3) B.E. 2539 ...
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Indigenous knowledge and customary law in natural resource management: Experiences in Yunnan, China and Haruku, Indonesia
Lands and territories inhabited by most indigenous peoples across the globe are rich in natural resources. Through generations of experimentation and as custodians, the indigeno...
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Asean Climate change REDD+ and Indigenous Peoples
The term Indigenous Peoples is increasingly used by peoples in the ASEAN region who thus far have been called “hill tribes”, “native people” or “ethnic minorities”, and the vari...
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Threatened Lands, Threatened Lives: Human Rights Situation of Indigenous People in Cambodia
This report on the human rights situation of indigenous peoples of Cambodia was prepared mainly from the contributions of indigenous peoples human rights defenders (IPHRDs) and ...
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Struggles of indigenous women against destructive mining
Laos, South-central Laos, Savannakhet Province, Vilabouly District: Ethnic minority women affected by the Sepon Gold and Copper Mining Project
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AIPP Annual Report 2013: A YEAR OF ADVANCEMENT AND EXPANSION
AIPP has taken major steps forward in 2013 in strengthening the organization and in advancing the rights of indigenous women. As a result of the adoption of the AIPP Gender Poli...