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  1. Library Resource
    The Cambodian peasantry and the formalisation of land rights : Historical overview and current issues
    Reports & Research
    December, 2018
    Cambodia

    The central objective of this working paper produced by Jean-Christophe Diepart and Thol Sem, is to examine the recognition and formalisation of peasants’ land rights against the backdrop of Cambodian history and political economy of land and agrarian change.

    It aims to understand how colonialism, war, socialism and the regional integration against a neoliberal background have shaped the land rights of smallholder farmers in contemporary Cambodia.

  2. Library Resource
    January, 2014
    Eastern Asia, Oceania

    This document addresses the need for explicit inclusion of livelihoods within the environment nexus (water-energy-food security). The authors present a conceptualisation of ‘environmental livelihood security’, which combines the nexus perspective with sustainable livelihoods. The geographical focus of this paper is Southeast Asia and Oceania, which the authors highlight is a region currently wrought by the impacts of a changing climate.

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    October, 2011
    Myanmar

    In September 2011, residents of Je--- village, Kawkareik Township told KHRG that they feared soldiers under Tatmadaw Border Guard Battalion #1022 and LIBs #355 and #546 would soon complete the confiscation of approximately 500 acres of land in their community in order to develop a large camp for Battalion #1022 and homes for soldiers' families. According to the villagers, the area has already been surveyed and the Je--- village head has informed local plantation and paddy farm owners whose lands are to be confiscated.

  4. 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.

  5. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2005
    Myanmar

    Summary:
    "Wrong-headed agricultural and development policies, counter-insurgency activities, as well
    as corruption and cronyism by the Burmese military regime, have all caused a dramatic
    decrease in rice production and food security in southern Shan State over the past ten years.
    The township of Mong Nai provides a good example of how food security, commonly defined
    as the physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food at all times, has

  6. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    March, 2005
    Myanmar

    Released on March 30, 2005...
    This bulletin examines the factors causing many villagers in Pa'an district to say that they now face a deepening food and money shortage crisis which is threatening their health and survival. Based on villagers' testimony, the main factors appear to be recurring forced labour for both SPDC and DKBA authorities, made worse in some areas by orders for farmers to double-crop on their land and the encroachment of new SPDC military bases on villages and farmland.

  7. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    February, 2006
    Myanmar

    Villagers in northern Pa'an District of central Karen State say their livelihoods are under serious threat due to exploitation by SPDC military authorities and by their Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) allies who rule as an SPDC proxy army in much of the region. Villages in the vicinity of the DKBA headquarters are forced to give much of their time and resources to support the headquarters complex, while villages directly under SPDC control face rape, arbitrary detention and threats to keep them compliant with SPDC demands. The SPDC plans to expand Dta Greh (a.k.a.

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