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  1. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2015
    Sierra Leone

    Sierra Leone’s new National Land Policy, recently approved by the cabinet, presents a progressive and ambitious plan for protecting land rights that will strengthen women’s access to land, give communities a bigger say over land management and create a better framework for major land investments. All of which is urgently in need if Sierra Leone’s future development is to benefit the entire nation.


  2. 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.

  3. Library Resource
    Cover photo of Midcourse Manoeuvres: Community Strategies and Remedies for Natural Resource Conflicts in Indonesia
    Reports & Research
    June, 2018
    Indonesia

    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.

     

  4. Library Resource
    Cover photo of Myanmar land use report
    Reports & Research
    June, 2018
    Myanmar

    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.

  5. Library Resource
    Cover photo of Myanmar land use report
    Reports & Research
    June, 2018
    Myanmar

    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.

  6. Library Resource
    Cover photo of Midcourse Manoeuvres: Community Strategies and Remedies for Natural Resource Conflicts in India
    Reports & Research
    June, 2018
    India

    Successive governments in India have emphasized the need for industrial expansion and privatization as the foundation for economic stability and growth. This focus has led to the policy-induced transformation of rural and peri-urban landscapes into use for industry and infrastructure. These transformations have caused social conflicts and ecological impacts for land and resource-dependent people.

  7. Library Resource
    Cover photo of report with title Midcourse Manoeuvres: Community Strategies and Remedies for Natural Resource Conflicts in India, Indonesia and Myanmar
    Reports & Research
    June, 2018
    Indonesia, Myanmar, Southern Asia, India

    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.

  8. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    November, 2015
    Myanmar

    Namati submits this briefing paper to assist the government of Myanmar and other interested parties in efforts to ensure the
    implementation of the 2013 recommendations of Parliament’s Farmland Investigation Commission. The commission is tasked
    with scrutinizing land grab cases and to promote justice for Myanmar’s citizens whose land was taken without due process or
    compensation.
    According to the Secretary General of the Farmland Investigation Commission, as of June 2015, approximately 30,000 cases have

  9. Library Resource
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    Practice Guide for Environmental Justice Paralegals

    Training Resources & Tools
    December, 2017
    Global

    A community paralegal, also known as a grassroots legal advocate or a barefoot lawyer, is a community resource person and mobiliser, trained in basic law and legal procedures and in skills like mediation, negotiation, education, and advocacy.

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