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Land Rights Matter! Anchors to Reduce Land Grabbing, Dispossession and Displacement. A Comparative Study of Land Rights Systems in Southeast Asia and the Potential of National and International Legal Frameworks and Guidelines

Reports & Research
December, 2016
Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Vietnam
Land & Investments
Land & Gender
legal empowerment
development agencies
land grabbing
extractive industries
tenure security
land ownership
land distribution
land reform
land investments
land acquisitions
title deeds
land titling
women
poverty
land policies
land law
ABSTRACTED FROM EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Land rights systems in Southeast Asia are in constant flux; they respond to various socioeconomic and political pressures and to changes in statutory and customary law. Over the last decade, Southeast Asia has become one of the hotspots of the global land grab phenomenon, accounting for about 30 percent of transnational land grabs globally. Land grabs by domestic urban elites, the military or government actors are also common in many Southeast Asian countries.
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“Eles Partiram as Casas”

Desocupações Forçadas e Insegurança da Posse da Terra para os Pobres da Cidade de Luanda

Reports & Research
May, 2007
Africa, Angola
Urban Tenure
community land rights
displacement
dispossession
disturbance
housing rights
land dispute
land rights
land tenure
poverty
slums
urban areas
Em Luanda, capital de Angola, o Governo despejou coercivamente e de forma violenta milhares de pessoas que viviam em áreas habitacionais informais com pouco ou nenhum aviso prévio. Em violação das próprias leis de Angola e das suas obrigações internacionais de direitos humanos, o Governo destruiu casas, culturas e bens pessoais dos moradores sem um processo justo e raramente concedeu indemnização.
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Proceedings of the Workshop on Irrigation in West Africa: Current Status and a View to the Future, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 1-2 December 2010

Conference Papers & Reports
December, 2014
Burkina Faso
Urban Tenure
land acquisitions
land
farmers
climate change
water management
land tenure
urbanization
land management
poverty
food security
land use
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Land Grabbing in Dawei (Myanmar/Burma): An (Inter)National Human Rights Concern

Reports & Research
December, 2012
Myanmar
Land & Investments
land grabbing
extractive industries
tenure security
land ownership
land investments
land acquisitions
poverty
ABSTRACTED FROM THE PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: In recent years, various actors, from big foreign and domestic corporate business and finance to governments, have initiated a large-scale worldwide enclosure of agricultural lands, mostly in the Global South but also elsewhere. This is done for large-scale industrial and industrial agriculture ventures and often packaged as large-scale investment for rural development.
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USAID Country Profile: Property Rights and Resource Governance - Lao PDR

Reports & Research
December, 2011
Laos
Land & Investments
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land & Gender
legal empowerment
development agencies
land grabbing
extractive industries
tenure security
land ownership
land distribution
land reform
environment
land investments
land acquisitions
title deeds
land titling
women
poverty
land policies
land law
OVERVIEW: The Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) is a landlocked country situated in Southeast Asia, bordering Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, China and Myanmar. Despite a recent increase in the rate of urbanization and a relatively small amount of arable land per capita, most people in Lao PDR live in rural areas and work in an agriculture sector dominated by subsistence farming. Lao PDR’s economy relies heavily on its natural resources, with over half the country’s wealth produced by agricultural land, forests, water and hydropower and mineral resources.
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The context of REDD+ in Vietnam: Drivers, agents and institutions

Reports & Research
December, 2012
Vietnam
Land & Investments
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
agriculture
agricultural land management
sustainable land management
sustainable land use
farmers
farming systems
land grabbing
extractive industries
tenure security
land ownership
environment
land investments
land acquisitions
poverty
land policies
land law
PUBLISHER'S ABSTRACT: This report discusses the political, economic and social opportunities and constraints that will influence the design and implementation of REDD+ in Vietnam. In particular, four major direct drivers (land conversion for agriculture; infrastructure development; logging (illegal and legal); forest fire) and three indirect drivers (pressure of population growth and migration; the state's weak forest management capacity; the limited funding available for forest protection) of deforestation and degradation in Vietnam are discussed, along with their implications for REDD+.
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Housing and Land Rights Issues in Cambodia

Reports & Research
December, 2009
Cambodia
Land & Investments
title deeds
land titling
poverty
land law
land policies
land acquisitions
land investments
land grabbing
land ownership
tenure security
legal empowerment
extractive industries
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Land and Natural Resource Alienation in Cambodia Land Tenure and Ownership

Reports & Research
December, 2006
Cambodia
Land & Investments
legal empowerment
land grabbing
extractive industries
tenure security
land ownership
land investments
land acquisitions
poverty
land policies
land law
Land is the repository of memory and keeps traces of the past in the absence of a strong written tradition. It is perceived as an open book from which anyone can read and learn about local history: place names, old roads, legends and stories attached to places. For local people, bulldozing the landscape is seen as erasing their history, and disturbing social organisations and traditions. In Cambodia--as in many other countries--land is an extremely important economic resource and asset. Land is livelihood.
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Tyrants, Tycoons and Tigers

Reports & Research
December, 2010
Myanmar
Land & Investments
Land, Climate Change & Environment
legal empowerment
land grabbing
extractive industries
tenure security
land ownership
environment
land investments
land acquisitions
poverty
ABSTRACTED FROM SUMMARY: A bitter land struggle is unfolding in northern Burma’s remote Hugawng Valley. Farmers that have been living for generations in the valley are defying one of the country’s most powerful tycoons as his company establishes massive mono-crop plantations in what happens to be the world’s largest tiger reserve. The Hukawng Valley Tiger Reserve in Kachin State was declared by the Myanmar Government in 2001 with the support of the US-based Wildlife Conservation Society.
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Holding Our Ground: Land Confiscation in Arakan & Mon States, and Pa-O Area of Southern Shan State

Reports & Research
December, 2009
Myanmar
Land & Investments
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
land grabbing
extractive industries
tenure security
land ownership
environment
land investments
land acquisitions
poverty
farmers
INTRODUCTION: The following report has been compiled to bring to the attention of a wider audience many of the problems facing the people of Burma, especially its many ethnic nationalities. For many outside observers, Burma’s problems are confined simply to the ongoing incarceration of Nobel Laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the country’s democratically elected leader, and many other political prisoners. However, as we hope to show in the following report, this is only one of very many human rights abuses that provide obstacles to the people’s hope for democracy.