ABSTRACTED FROM WEBSITE: What is happening with the land and natural wealth around the world, and to the people who depend on them? How are people responding to these trends, threats, and challenges?
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2019Global, Myanmar, Thailand
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Library ResourceInstitutional & promotional materialsDecember, 2015Global, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
Research indicates that key parameters of “land grabbing” differ across regions (e.g., ILC 2012) – particularly in view of who invests and/or when the bulk of investments occurred. At the same time, my review of the “land grab” literature since 2008 reveals that hardly any comparative assessments of “land grabbing” from a home country perspective exist that study whether and/or in which way and why “land grabs” of a single investor country differ across regions.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2017Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Global
Up to 2.5 billion people hold and use the world’s community lands, yet the tenure rights of women—who comprise more than half the population of the world’s Indigenous Peoples and local communities—are seldom acknowledged or protected by national laws.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2017Global, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
ABSTRACTED FROM CHAPTER INTRODUCTION: The preceding chapters of this book give a central place to the Powers of Exclusion framework for understanding transformations in land relations, as developed in our 2011 book on Southeast Asia. A couple of the main aspects of the two books make for an interesting comparison. The first is that each employs a regional frame of reference to explore themes in changing land relations. The second is their respective development and application of a common conceptual framework.
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