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Customary Land Management and Legal Frameworks: Experiences from Around the World
This purpose of this paper is to present a brief summary of the issues and current situations facing ethnic and indigenous communities around the world that are using a customar...
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Integrating Analytical Frameworks to Investigate Land-Cover Regime Shifts in Dynamic Landscapes
Regime shifts—rapid long-term transitions between stable states—are well documented in ecology but remain controversial and understudied in land use and land cover change (LUCC)...
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Land and Forest Governance in the Naga Village Republic
This report is based on a research project on the Naga customary land tenure system, conducted by Resource Rights for The Indigenous Peoples (RRtIP) in collaboration with Land C...
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Voices of Land from Southern Myanmar: Hein Ze - A Rural Village in Yebyu Township about Land Use Change and Wellbeing
This working paper at hand describes the context of land use and human wellbeing in the village Hein Ze in Yebyu Township, Tanintharyi Region, told from the perspective of the v...
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Impacts of Land Concession on Rural Livelihoods in Central Laos
The findings of the present study show that concerned authorities at the provincial level have implemented the policy on turning land into capital differently in different provi...
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Land Use and Land Cover Changes during the Second Indochina War and Their Long-Term Impact on a Hilly Area in Laos
Armed conflicts create drastic socioeconomic shocks that lead to land use and land cover changes in ways that are not yet well understood. Several studies have used satellite im...
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Collateral Damage: Land Loss and Abuses in Cambodia's Microfinance Sector
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...
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CCHR briefing note: Land reform
This briefing note provides an overview and analysis of how the Kingdom of Cambodia’s (“Cambodia”) recent history has adversely affected the development of land ownership and r...
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Indigenous response to depletion in natural resources: A study of two Stieng villages in Snoul district, Kratie province
This ADI research seeks to trace the depletion of natural resources in two indigenous Stieng villages in Snoul District of Kratie province and to document the responses that hav...
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A turning point? Land, housing and natural resources rights in 2012
Whereas 2011 had seen a sharp increase in the number of Economic Land Concessions (ELCs) granted by the Royal Government of Cambodia to private companies, in 2012 conflicts beca...
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Cambodia's National Forest Programme: Framework document
Cambodia's National Forest Programme is developed under observation of the principles for national forest programmes asset out by the UN Forum on Forests, as well as by national...
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Eighth National Five Year Socio-Economic Development Plan
The Five Year National Socio-Economic Development Plan VIII (2016-2020) (8th NSEDP) is a means of implementing the National Strategy on Socio-Economic Development until 2025 and...
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Discussion Paper: The Sustainable Development Goals in the context of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic November 2015
This is an analysis to inform discussion between the Government of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) and the United Nations (UN) on the adaptation of the Sustainabl...
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Land-use change in a telecoupled world: the relevance and applicability of the telecoupling framework in the case of banana plantation expansion in Laos
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...
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NGO statement to the 2007 Cambodia development cooperation forum meeting
The NGO Statement to the 2007 Cambodia Development Cooperation Forum(CDCF) identifies three priority areas – land, agriculture and natural resources management; human developmen...
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Indigenous land management and tenure: Three reports from Ratanakiri and Mondulkiri
This presentation was conducted by Community Forestry International in cooperation with Indigenous Community Support Organisation (ICSO) and and Non-Timber Forest Product Exchan...
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Increasing Pressure for Land - Implications for Rural Livelihoods in Developing Countries: The Case of Cambodia
This study aims to (1) analyse the early impacts of ELCs on indigenous people in the project area of Welt hunger hilfe, (2) analyse the context and the p...
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Discussion paper: The sustainable development goals in the context of the Lao people’s democratic republic november 2015
This is an analysis to inform discussion between the Government of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) and the United Nations (UN) on the adaptation of the Sustainabl...
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Untitled: tenure insecurity and inequality in the Cambodian land sector
Eight years have passed since the enactment of the 2001 Land Law, which established a framework for the recognition of land and property rights throughout Cambodia. In 2002 the ...
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Indicating success: Evaluation of community protected areas in Cambodia
The goal of this paper is to establish some challenges and suitable techniques for improving the livelihoods of people living in Cambodia’s community protected areas. The main i...