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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...
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Land rights and the rush for land findings of the global commercial pressures on land research project
More than 40 organisations collaborated in this global research project through case studies, thematic studies, and regional overviews, from which the content and analysis ...
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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 re...
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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, w...
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Landowners or laborers: What choice will developing countries make?
During 2012, a key choice facing developing countries revealed itself ever more starkly. Would they choose a development path built on inclusiveness, respect for the rights of t...
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Investment in land and water : proceedings of the regional consultation, Bangkok, 2001.
Summary report, recommendations and text of the "Bangkok Declaration" the total land area of the Asia and the Pacific region is 3,001 million ha or 22.9 percent of the world’s l...
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Global wage report 2014/15: Wages and income inequality
The Global wage report 2014/15 presents both the latest trends in average wages and an analysis of the role of wages in income inequality. The first part of the report shows tha...
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Still banking on land grabs: Australia's four big banks and land grabs
This report reveals new links between Australia's big four banks and three land grabbing case studies previously documented in Oxfam's 2014 report Banking on Shaky Ground. The n...
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Poverty and climate change: Reducing the vulnerability of the poor through adaptation
This paper focuses on the impacts of climate change on poverty reduction efforts in the context of sustaining progress towards the Millennium Development Goals and beyond. It di...
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Proceedings of the Mekong symposium on migration: embracing diversity, seeking multicultural values and mutual understanding
The proceedings of the Mekong Symposium on Migration on the topic of embracing diversity, seeking multicultural values and mutual understanding. Held in Bangkok, Thailand, 27-2...
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Ethnobotanical investigation of 'wild' food plants used by rice farmers in Kalasin, Northeast Thailand
Selected results from a study of wild food conducted in several villages in Northeast Thailand. Authors provide a complete botanical inventory of wild food plants from these com...
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China–Myanmar energy cooperation and its regional implications
Explores the driving forces behind the China-Myanmar oil and gas pipeline project and its broader objectives. The author investigates whether pipelines can deepen regional econo...
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Developing fisheries enhancement in small water bodies: lessons from Laos and Northeast Thailand
Lessons learnt from Laos and Northeast Thailand on developing fisheries enhancement in small waterbodies. The report reviews the characteristics of enhanced small waterbody fish...
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Strategic environmental assessment of mainstream dams: Mekong fisheries and mainstream dams
This report is the fisheries section of the Mekong River Commission Strategic Environmental Assessment of hydropower on the Mekong mainstream. Part one of this document provides...
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Thailand, the plight of Burmese migrant workers
The paper examines key issues and problems faced by Burmese migrant workers and their families, the Royal Thai Government and the employers. Hundreds of thousands of Burmese mig...
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MOU for joint action to reduce HIV vulnerability (GMS countries)
A memorandum of understanding for joint action to reduce HIV vulnerability related to population movement in the Greater Mekong Subregion, signed by Cambodia, China, Lao, Myanma...
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Securing the right to land: a CSO overview on access to land in Asia
This report aims to provide a survey of the situation os land access by Asia’s poor through a review of existing political and legal frameworks governing land access. As well it...
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Reinventing irrigation
The conditions that led to large public investment in irrigation in the second half of the 20th century have changed radically, and today’s circumstances demand substantial...
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Negotiate reaching agreements on water
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Reforming water governance principles enabling practice
12 page slide presentation presented at 5th GEF-IW Conference Cairns, Australia October 2009