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Representing large-scale land acquisitions in land use change scenarios for the Lao PDR

Journal Articles & Books
August, 2018
Laos
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land grabbing
land use
land use change
Agricultural large-scale land acquisition (LSLA) is a process that is currently not captured by land change models. We present a novel land change modeling approach that includes processes governing LSLAs and simulates their interactions with other land systems. LSLAs differ from other land change processes in two ways: (1) their changes affect hundreds to thousands of contiguous hectares at a time, far surpassing other land change processes, e.g., smallholder agriculture, and (2) as policymakers value LSLA as desirable or undesirable, their agency significantly affects LSLA occurrence.
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Future governance options for large-scale land acquisition in Cambodia: Impacts on tree cover and tiger landscapes

Journal Articles & Books
April, 2019
Cambodia
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land grabbing
land policies
land use
This paper investigates how large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs) can be governed to avoid underuse and thereby spare room for other land claims, specifically nature conservation. LSLA underuse occurs when land in LSLAs is not converted to its intended use. Taking Cambodia as a case, we map converted and unconverted areas within LSLAs using remote sensing. We develop three scenarios of alternative LSLA policies until 2040, and use a land system change model to evaluate how governing the underuse of LSLAs affects overall land use.
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Strategic Framing of Adat in Land-Acquisition Politics in East Sumba

Journal Articles & Books
October, 2019
Indonesia
customary law
land grabbing
This article is about the strategic use of adat arguments in the politics of large-scale land acquisition. While customary (adat) communities are commonly depicted as small local minorities living in the forests and being guardians of the environment, in many situations such communities occupy a majority position within the district. Majority adat communities are internally differentiated into categories of actors with varying and conflicting interests. This article focuses on Sumba in eastern Indonesia, where state and adat powers are not opposed but historically aligned.
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Strategic Framing of Adat in Land-Acquisition Politics in East Sumba

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2019
Indonesia
customary law
land grabbing
This article is about the strategic use of adat arguments in the politics of large-scale land acquisition. While customary (adat) communities are commonly depicted as small local minorities living in the forests and being guardians of the environment, in many situations such communities occupy a majority position within the district. Majority adat communities are internally differentiated into categories of actors with varying and conflicting interests. This article focuses on Sumba in eastern Indonesia, where state and adat powers are not opposed but historically aligned.
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Strategic Framing of Adat in Land-Acquisition Politics in East Sumba

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2019
Indonesia
customary law
land grabbing
This article is about the strategic use of adat arguments in the politics of large-scale land acquisition. While customary (adat) communities are commonly depicted as small local minorities living in the forests and being guardians of the environment, in many situations such communities occupy a majority position within the district. Majority adat communities are internally differentiated into categories of actors with varying and conflicting interests. This article focuses on Sumba in eastern Indonesia, where state and adat powers are not opposed but historically aligned.
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Grey areas in green grabbing : subtle and indirect interconnections between climate change politics and land grabs and their implications for research

Peer-reviewed publication
March, 2019
Cambodia, Myanmar
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
agrarian structure
land administration
land grabbing
land rights
land use change
Climate change and green grabbing/resource grabbing together call for nuanced understanding of governance imperatives, and for constructing a knowledge base appropriate to political intervention. This paper offers preliminary ways in which interconnections can be seen and understood, and their implications for research and politics explored. It concludes by way of a preliminary discussion of the notion of ‘agrarian climate justice’ as a possible framework for formal governance or political activism relevant to tackling grey area interconnections.
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Small-scale land acquisitions, large-scale implications: Exploring the case of Chinese banana investments in Northern Laos

Land Use Policy Volume 57

Peer-reviewed publication
November, 2016
Laos
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land acquisitions
land grabbing
land use
land use change
research
scale
The scholarly debate around ‘global land grabbing’ is advancing theoretically, methodologically and empirically. This study contributes to these ongoing efforts by investigating a set of ‘small-scale land acquisitions’ in the context of a recent boom in banana plantation investments in Luang Namtha Province, Laos. In relation to the actors, scales and processes involved, the banana acquisitions differ from the state-granted large-scale land acquisitions dominating the literature on ‘land grabbing’ in Laos.
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The Politics and Ethics of Land Concessions in Rural Cambodia

Journal Articles & Books
February, 2013
Cambodia
land governance
land policies
land reform
land use
land acquisitions
foreign investment
land grabbing
land rights
In rural Cambodia the rampant allocation of state land to political elites and foreign investors in the form of “Economic Land Concessions (ELCs)”—estimated to cover an area equivalent to more than 50 % of the country’s arable land—has been associated with encroachment on farmland, community forests and indigenous territories and has contributed to a rapid increase of rural landlessness. By contrast, less than 7,000 ha of land have been allotted to land-poor and landless farmers under the pilot project for “Social Land Concessions (SLCs)” supported by various donor agencies.
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Untangling the proximate causes and underlying drivers of deforestation and forest degradation in Myanmar

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2017
Myanmar
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land & Investments
agriculture
agricultural land management
sustainable land management
sustainable land use
farmers
farming systems
environment
land investments
land acquisitions
land grabbing
land policies
land law
Political transitions often trigger substantial environmental changes. In particular, deforestation can result from the complex interplay among the components of a system—actors, institutions, and existing policies—adapting to new opportunities. A dynamic conceptual map of system components is particularly useful for systems in which multiple actors, each with different worldviews and motivations, may be simultaneously trying to alter different facets of the system, unaware of the impacts on other components.
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Are the Odds of Justice “Stacked” Against Them? Challenges and Opportunities for Securing Land Claims by Smallholder Farmers in Myanmar

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2016
Myanmar
Land & Investments
land law
land policies
land grabbing
land ownership
tenure security
legal empowerment
smallholders
development agencies
extractive industries
In 2012, the Government of Myanmar passed the Farmland Law and the Vacant, Fallow, Virgin Land Law, with an aim to increase investment in land through the formalization of a land market. Land titling is often considered “the natural end point of land rights formalization.” A major obstacle to achieving this in Myanmar is its legacy of multiple regimes which has created “stacked laws.” This term refers to a situation in which a country has multiple layers of laws that exist simultaneously, leading to conflicts and contradictions in the legal system.