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Land conflicts between Economic Land Concessions and smallholder farmers in Bousra commune (Cambodia): What Are the Policy Implications?

Reports & Research
January, 2020
Cambodia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
agriculture
concession (land)
land investments
foreign investment
land dispute
land dispute resolution
indigenous peoples' land rights
Indigenous Peoples
In 2007-8, the Cambodian government granted Economic Land Concessions (ELC) to two rubber companies, namely Socfin-KCD and Dak Lak Mondulkiri Aphivath in Bousra commune, Mondulkiri province. Through a comparative approach, the Case study examines the impact of these rubber concessions on local land tenure systems. It examines how each company took into consideration the land claims of affected people and communities, and the effectiveness of the conflict resolution approach.
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Midcourse Manoeuvres: Community Strategies and Remedies for Natural Resource Conflicts in Indonesia

Reports & Research
June, 2018
Indonesia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
forest land
indigenous peoples' land rights
land access
land conflicts
land dispute resolution
land governance
land policies
land reform
land use
legal empowerment
local communities
mining
Over the last 50 years, most Asian countries have gone through a shift from subsistence agricultural systems to industrialized economies. In Indonesia, the major shift came in 1966, when General Suharto successfully staged a military coup. Under his presidency, Indonesia experienced the “New Order”. A key aspect of this regime was trade and industrial expansion. Changes were made to foreign and domestic investment laws to facilitate growth, including the removal of most controls on private investments.
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Midcourse Manoeuvres: Community Strategies and Remedies for Natural Resource Conflicts in Myanmar

Reports & Research
June, 2018
Myanmar
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
community land rights
land conflicts
land dispute resolution
land governance
land policies
land rights
land use
legal empowerment
local communities
mining
sustainable development
Since the 1960s, and particularly in the last decade, Southeast Asia has been attracting significant foreign investments. Myanmar, despite its land titling and registration tangles, is no exception. Investors all across the globe are vying for a piece of the “Golden Land” and the country is responding with equal fervor. The building of a modern industrialized nation through agricultural development is one of the country's economic objectives. Foreign investments are being encouraged, private businesses are being pushed, and attractive tax and duty rebates are being offered.
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Midcourse Manoeuvres: Community Strategies and Remedies for Natural Resource Conflicts in Myanmar

Reports & Research
June, 2018
Myanmar
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
community land rights
land conflicts
land dispute resolution
land governance
land policies
land rights
land use
legal empowerment
local communities
mining
sustainable development
Since the 1960s, and particularly in the last decade, Southeast Asia has been attracting significant foreign investments. Myanmar, despite its land titling and registration tangles, is no exception. Investors all across the globe are vying for a piece of the “Golden Land” and the country is responding with equal fervor. The building of a modern industrialized nation through agricultural development is one of the country's economic objectives. Foreign investments are being encouraged, private businesses are being pushed, and attractive tax and duty rebates are being offered.
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Midcourse Manoeuvres: Overview of Community Strategies and Remedies for Natural Resource Conflicts in India, Indonesia and Myanmar

Reports & Research
June, 2018
Indonesia, Myanmar, Southern Asia, India
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
community land rights
development
extractive industries
land acquisitions
land conflicts
land dispute resolution
land grabbing
land policies
land rights
land transfers
land use
legal empowerment
mining
Land transformation has been at the centre of the economic growth of post-colonial Asia. In the 1990s, many Asian countries embraced economic liberalization and speculative business interests in land began to replace the state’s control of land for developmental purposes. The growing demand for land by corporations and private investors has fuelled several regional land rush waves in Asia, bringing them directly in conflict with communities that require these lands for their occupations and survival.
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Land tenure in rural lowland Myanmar

From historical perspectives to contemporary realities in the Dry Zone and the Delta

Journal Articles & Books
Reports & Research
October, 2017
Myanmar
land administration
land registration
land titling
land governance
land policies
land reform
land management
farmland
agriculture
land
land loans
landlessness
land access
land conflicts
land tenure
tenure security
advocacy
farmers
landowners
This study emerged out of an identified need to document social processes leading to land insecurity, and those leading to investment and sustainable use of lands by rural populations. Focusing on the Delta and Dry Zone, the main paddy producing regions of Myanmar, this analysis unravels the powers at play in shaping rural households’ relationship to land.
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Innovative Approach to Land Conflict Transformation: Lessons Learned From the HAGL/Indigenous Communities’ Mediation Process in Ratanakiri, Cambodia

Reports & Research
July, 2016
Cambodia
Land Conflicts
Land & Investments
community forestry
customary land rights
customary tenure
extractive industries
forest land
Indigenous Peoples
land acquisitions
land conflicts
land dispute
land dispute resolution
land grabbing
landlessness
local communities
In the Mekong region, conflicts between local communities and large scale land concessions are widespread. They are often difficult to solve. In Cambodia, an innovative approach to conflict resolution was tested in a case involving a private company, Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL), and several indigenous communities who lost some of their customary lands and forests when the company obtained a concession to grow rubber in the Province of Ratanakiri. The approach was developed by CSOs Equitable Cambodia (EC) and Inclusive Development International (IDI) with the support of QDF funding from MRLG.