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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2014
    Myanmar

    This Study discusses the human rights issues raised by large-scale land deals for plantation agriculture (‘land grabbing’) in low and middle-income countries. Firstly, the Study takes stock of available data on large land deals, their features and their driving forces. It finds that ‘land grabbing’ is a serious issue requiring urgent attention. Secondly, the Study conceptualises the link between land deals and human rights, reviews relevant international human rights law and discusses evidence on actual and potential human rights impacts.

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    November, 2014
    Myanmar

    The scale of attacks against land rights defenders is particularly preoccupying and should attract our utmost reaction and urgent mobilisation.
    The toll they pay, together with their families and communities, is dramatic,
    be it killings, forced disappearances, harassment or criminalisation. Caught
    in the crossfire between poor land users fighting for the respect of their basic
    human rights and powerful economic actors fighting for juicy profits, they
    account as one of the most vulnerable categories of human rights defenders.

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    September, 2014
    Myanmar

    ... We here examine several options for independent certification of community forests with a view to legal timber harvest.

    A number of certification standards and types have been developed world-wide, with the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC; www.pefc.org)
    and the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC; info.fsc.org) being the most widely recognised standards for Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) and Chain of Custody (CoC) certification.

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    September, 2014
    Myanmar

    ..."This Working Paper examines options for improved sustainability and economic viability for community forest in Myanmar (See also Wode et al 2014). It was prepared under an EU-FAO Regional FLEGT Programme project implemented by Fauna & Flora International that is
    exploring opportunities and constraints for commercial timber production from community forests.

  5. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    September, 2014
    Myanmar

    ... The National Community Forestry Instruction (1995) provides communities the opportunity for 30 year licenses to manage state forests lands for natural forest protection, mixed agro-forestry and timber production systems. The Forestry Master Plan (2001) envisions around 920,000 ha to be handed to local Forest User Groups (FUGs) by 2030, about 1.36% of the total land area.

  6. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    October, 2014
    Myanmar

    ... This paper attempts to analyse the key aspects of reforms required to ‘democratise’ Myanmar's timber trade, and the political–economic interests contributing or obstructing reform. The main aim of this paper is to assess the prospects for reform of Myanmar's timber sector in light of theemerging FLEGT process, and to apply a political ecological analysis to the ways in which the political–economic power balance will determine the outcomes.

  7. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    April, 2014
    Myanmar

    ... This study was intended to find out the benefits of forests, especially for non-wood forest products (NWFPs), to forestdependent local people and the relation to their socio-economic status. Sampling (169 respondents) was chosen to be an equal distribution of household’s economic status. The survey was conducted face to face with structural interviews using both open-and closed-ended questions. The results showed that bamboo and bamboo shoot were considered as the most collected NWFPs in the Bago Yoma region.

  8. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    September, 2014
    Myanmar

    This report covers much of SE Asia, with specific references to Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Philippines, Myanmar....."...In Myanmar, the ceasefire negotiations and move
    toward democracy have opened the door to a
    virtual gold rush for foreign investors, posing new
    threats to the country’s rural populations in the
    guise of economic development. On March 30,
    2012, the Parliament approved the Farmland Law
    and Vacant, Fallow and Virgin Lands Management Law, which are designed to encourage large-scale

  9. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    February, 2014
    Myanmar

    ...The forests of the Dawna Tenasserim are under pressure from deforestation due to
    agricultural expansion and logging, forest fragmentation, subsistence poaching, commercial
    poaching for the illegal wildlife trade, unsustainable harvesting of non-timber forest products
    and wild meat, and major infrastructure development such as roads, pipelines and dams...WWF is conserving the Dawna Tenasserim Landscape
    as an intact ecosystem with protected and connected
    habitats for wildlife, and safeguarding its valuable

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