This study uses publicly available financial and spatial data to examine the geography of land-intensive investment in Southeast Asia, and to identify the
limits imposed by problems with data availability. It focuses on three regions where land has been widely seen to be available for new investment: Indonesia’s outer islands; the “development triangle” where Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam meet; and the Golden Quadrangle region which comprises the borderlands of northeastern Myanmar, northwestern Laos, southern and western Yunnan, and northern Thailand.

This report draws on the Land Matrix database to analyze and better understand the phenomenon of large-scale agricultural land deals. It focuses on:
» land acquisitions or investments (“deals”) targeting the Global South and Eastern Europe, including only low and middle income countries;
» transnational deals, excluding deals where only domestic actors are involved; and
» deals where the envisioned land use is agricultural.

This article focuses on two cases where companies have sought to develop more socially benign––and, they believe, more profitable and sustainable––plantation concessions in a context that is still marred by extensive land conflict. The first is the Mong Reththy Investment Cambodia Oil Palm (MRICOP) Company (Preah Sihanouk province); the second is the Grandis Timber Company (Kampong Speu province).

This report documents the contemporary ecological, social and economic transformations occurring in one village in Lao PDR’s central Khammouane province under multiple sources of development-induced displacement. Rural development policy in Laos is focused on promoting rapid rural modernisation, to be achieved through foreign direct investments in two key resource sectors: hydropower and plantations. Laos’ land reformprogram is also a key component of the changes underway in the countryside, as swidden (or shifting) upland cultivation is targeted for stabilisation and elimination.

Abstract: "Political dynamics of the global land grab are exemplified in Cambodia, where at least 27 forced evictions took place in 2009, affecting 23,000 people. Evictions of the rural poor are legitimized by the assumption that non-private land is idle, marginal, or degraded and available for capitalist exploitation. This paper: (1) questions the assumption that land is idle; (2) explores whether land grabs can be regulated through a ‘code of conduct’; and (3) examines peasant resistance to land grabs.

A discussion paper on civil society's participation in land policy-making, focused on the pre-consultation phase of Myanmar's National Land Use Policy. Written by Eben Forbes, with research assistance from Dr. Nu Nu Khin and
Yadana Than Htaik, and published by Land Core Group, Loka Ahlinn and Mekong Region Land Governance in February 2017.

The purpose of this sub-decree is to classify state permanent forest reserve land, of which size is 534 hectares, and grant social land concessions in Rumdaoh Sre Commune, Choam Ksant District, Preah Vihear Province.

The land from forest cover 2002 in total amount of 5382 hectares, including 3 locations such as Ta Lou commune of Bakan district for 2286 hectares, Santreae commune of Kravanh district for 548 hectares and Pramaoy commune of Veal Veng district for 2588 hectares in Pursat province was privatized for social land concession to allocate to former armed forces and their families.

The forest reserve of which size is 2,074.82 hectares was privatized and granted as social land concessions to military families at Brigade no.12 in Preah Vihear province.

52.5 hectares of permanent preserved forest located in Teuk Krahom commune, Choam Ksant district, Preah Vihear province were privatized for granting to the Military families and Police officers.

The land from the economic land concession of Pheapimex Group in amount of 4815.67 hectares was privatized for social land concession project to grant the land to former armed forces and their families, and general poor people in Samaki Mean Chey district, Kampong Chhnang province.

The reserve forest of which size is 69 hectares in Kork Mon commune, Banteay Ampil district, Oddar Meanchey province was privatized to distribute social land concessions to military and police families and to establish a village named Thmor Daun.