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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    February, 2009
    Africa

    Examines the policies and practices on land of the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID). While DFID’s approach to land reform in the 1980s reflected the dictates of modernisation, formal registration and market-led distribution of land of the IFIs, this was followed 1997-2002 by a period where changes were made to move in the direction of a rights-based approach.

  2. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    September, 2013
    Myanmar

    Burma's dramatic turn-around from 'axis of evil' to western darling in the past year has been imagined as Asia's 'final frontier' for global finance institutions, markets and capital. Burma's agrarian landscape is home to three-fourths of the country's total population which is now being constructed as a potential prime investment sink for domestic and international agribusiness.

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    September, 2015
    Myanmar

    This assessment is in response to the 6th draft of the NLUP, released in May
    2015, following months of public and expert consultations. It outlines some
    of the key positive and negative points of the new draft. The new draft NLUP
    has taken on board many of the concerns and recommendations raised by
    the public during the consultation process, and includes several key issues
    that would greatly improve Myanmar’s land governance arrangements.

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    July, 2016
    Myanmar

    Conclusion:

    "Myanmar is at a historic crossroads where rapid land polarisation means that a major rethink is needed of how land and associated resources are regulated and for what purposes. The good news is that there is a lot of thinking about and rethinking of land policy happening both inside and outside the corridors of state; many people are putting serious time and energy into thinking about what should be done, and at least for the time being, the political space exists for previously excluded voices to weigh in and be heard.

  5. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    April, 2013
    Myanmar

    The reform process in Burma/Myanmar by the quasi-civilian government of President Thein Sein has raised hopes that a long overdue solution can be found to more than 60 years of devastating civil war...

  6. Library Resource
    Institutional & promotional materials
    December, 2015
    Laos

    The Lao Land and Forest Allocation Policy (LFAP) was intended to provide clearer property rights for swidden farmers living in mountainous areas. These lands are legally defined as “State” forests but are under various forms of customary tenure. The policy involves demarcating village territorial boundaries, ecological zoning of lands within village territories, and finally allocating a limited number of individual land parcels to specific households for farming.

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