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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    September, 2014
    Myanmar

    ... The National Community Forestry Instruction (1995) provides communities the opportunity for 30 year licenses to manage state forests lands for natural forest protection, mixed agro-forestry and timber production systems. The Forestry Master Plan (2001) envisions around 920,000 ha to be handed to local Forest User Groups (FUGs) by 2030, about 1.36% of the total land area.

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    November, 2015
    Myanmar

    ... This piece of community initiated action research reveals a number of lessons we can learn. The authors try to reflect the challenges of and opportunities for community based natural resources management in a seemingly forgotten Karen controlled area of southern Myanmar. The paper examines a number of case studies including the construction of a local water supply system, the establishment of fish conservation zones and community-driven forest conservation.

  3. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    March, 2004
    Myanmar

    ...The objective of this research paper is to describe specific ways in which the State
    Peace and Development Council (SPDC) deprives the people of Burma of their land
    and livelihood. Confiscation of land, labour, crops and capital; destruction of person
    and property; forced labour; looting and expropriation of food and possessions;
    forced sale of crops to the military; extortion of money through official and
    unofficial taxes and levies; forced relocation and other abuses by the State...

  4. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    September, 2004
    Myanmar

    ...The main objective of this research is to examine housing, land, and property rights in the context of Burma’s societal transition towards a democratic polity and economy. Much has been written and discussed about property rights in their various manifestations, private, public, collective, and common in terms of “rights”. When property rights are widely and fairly distributed, they are inseparable from the rights of people to a means of living.

  5. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    February, 2012
    Myanmar

    ABSTRACT: Burma (Myanmar) is currently emerging from almost half a century of severe military dictatorship. In a country comprising over 50% forested landscapes, the status of forest governance and forest rights are central to the democratisation process.

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