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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    October, 2015
    India

    This paper presents case studies of two tribal villages - Mendha Lekha and Jamguda - successfully running forest-based bamboo businesses under the community forest rights provisions of Forest Rights Act (2006). We have documented the issues faced by the villagers in claiming community forest rights, issues faced in harvesting and sale of bamboo, and business practices adopted by both the villages.

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    September, 2015
    Bhutan

    This study was conducted with the objective of determining the returns to sustainable land management (SLM) at the national level in Bhutan. The study first uses satellite data on land change (Landsat) to examine land use change in 1990–2010 and its impact on sediment loading in hydroelectric power plants. The study then uses the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model to analyze the impact of land use change and land management on sediment loading. The results from the land use change and SWAT analyses are used to assess the economic benefits of SLM.

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    October, 2015
    Myanmar

    RECOFTC and partners recently conducted a national-level expert panel discussion in Myanmar on gender mainstreaming in national forestry and REDD+ initiatives.

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    October, 2015
    South-Eastern Asia, Myanmar

    Myanmar is undergoing a major transition, opening space for significant change for the first time in decades. Secure land tenure for smallholder farmers and rural communities is essential in a heavily agrarian nation like Myanmar, where millions in the rural population – nearly 70% of the country – depend on agriculture for their livelihoods.

  5. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    September, 2015
    Myanmar

    Dirty coal mining by military cronies & Thai companies, Ban Chaung, Dawei District, Myanmar.....Executive Summary: "This report was researched and written collaboratively by Dawei Civil Society Organizations and documents the environmental and social impacts of the Ban Chaung coal mining project in Dawei District of Myanmar’s Tanintharyi Region. Based on desk research, interviews with villagers, and direct engagement with companies and government, it exposes how the project was pushed ahead despite clear opposition from the local community.

  6. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    September, 2015
    Myanmar

    Dirty coal mining by military cronies & Thai companies,
    Ban Chaung, Dawei District, Myanmar.....Executive Summary: "This report was researched and written collaboratively by Dawei Civil Society Organizations
    and documents the environmental and social impacts of the Ban Chaung coal mining project
    in Dawei District of Myanmar’s Tanintharyi Region. Based on desk research, interviews
    with villagers, and direct engagement with companies and government, it exposes how

  7. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    September, 2015
    Myanmar

    Introduction: "For nearly four decades, Myanmar (also known as
    Burma) was ruled by military-led governments that
    committed grave human rights violations, resulting in
    international economic sanctions against the
    country for
    many years.1 Beginning in 2012, however, after the
    liberalization of some governmental policies, Western
    nations lifted these sanctions. In an effort to gain
    ground on countries like China and India that had
    maintained economic ties with Myanmar during the time

  8. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    September, 2015
    Myanmar

    WHEN soldiers in Myanmar raided a huge illegal logging site in Kachin, a war-torn northern state, they swooped upon a thousand ill-paid labourers imported from neighbouring Yunnan, a province in China. Some of the Chinese managed to flee into the jungle, surviving for days without food and water before escaping across the border. The unluckiest—more than 150 of them—were arrested and prosecuted. China barked at Myanmar in July, when a court in Kachin state handed most of them life sentences. They were soon pardoned and deported, but only after having spent six months in custody.

  9. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    September, 2015
    Myanmar

    Myanmar’s forests are in trouble. Two recent reports reveal the rapid loss of tree cover over the past five years has been so severe Myanmar rank...Since 2010, Myanmar has lost more than 546,000 hectares (over 1.3 million acres) of forest on average each year, according to a report by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization.

    The chunk of forest lost annually is about the size of fellow ASEAN country Brunei, and over the past five years adds up to the size of Equatorial Guinea.

  10. 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.

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