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  1. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    February, 2015
    Cambodia, India, Indonesia

    This briefing paper is an outcome of the project "Strengthening the Documentation and Advocacy Capacity of Indigenous Women for the Advancement of their Rights and Welfare on Land" implemented in Cambodia, India and Indonesia in 2013-2014.

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    Policy Brief: The Implementation of Rwanda’s Expropriation Law and Outcomes on the Population cover image
    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    January, 2015
    Rwanda

    This Policy Brief summarizes the main findings and recommendations of qualitative and quantative research on implementation and outcomes of the 2007 Expropriation Law in Rwanda. Rwanda is developing at a remarkably rapid pace, and with that development has come a multitude of corresponding changes to the orientation and use of land throughout the country.

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    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2015
    Myanmar, Thailand

    The Bangkok-based Sino-Thai company Choern Pakard Group (CP Group), Asia's largest and most prominent agro-food/feed corporation, has led an industrial maize contract farming scheme with (ex-)poppy upland smallholders in Shan State, northern Myanmar to supply China’s chicken-feed market. Thailand, as a Middle-Income Country (MIC) and regional powerhouse, has long-tapped China’s phenomenal economic growth and undersupplied consumer demand.

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    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2015
    Myanmar

    Myanmar has recently positioned itself as the world’s newest frontier market, while simultaneously undergoing transition to a post-war, neoliberal state. The new Myanmar government has put the country’s land and resources up for sale with the quick passing of market-friendly laws turning land into a commodity. Meanwhile, the Myanmar government has been engaging in a highly contentious national peace process, in an attempt to end one of the world's longest running civil wars.

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    Different routes to private ownership through land reforms in four Mekong countries (Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam)

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2015
    Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam

    All four countries in continental South-East Asia featured in this paper (Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam) are experiencing land conflicts that could potentially destabilise their governments.1 Thailand is in a similar situation in many respects, as it has faced mounting tensions over land tenure since the 1990s (Hall et al., 2011). These conflicts are escalating, sometimes violent, and are attracting more and more attention from the media. They have mobilized numerous local and international NGOs, and often triggered the development of an increasingly visible national civil society.

  6. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    July, 2015
    Paraguay

    Este material incluye una breve referencia al marco jurídico que orienta la política de reforma agraria y distribución de tierras, una descripción de la política de tierras en los últimos años, el desempeño del organismo de aplicación de dicha política, el Instituto Nacional de Desarrollo Rural y de la Tierra (INDERT), un recuento de los mecanismos existentes para el acceso a la tierra por parte de…

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    Policy Papers & Briefs
    July, 2015
    Peru

    El presente documento contiene una breve sistematización de las políticas vigentes en el Perú en torno al acceso y control de la tierra por parte de pequeños agricultores y comunidades. Su lectura debe complementar la del documento sobre legislación, preparado igualmente para el Movimiento por la Tierra en Sudamérica.

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    Policy Papers & Briefs
    July, 2015
    Ecuador

    Se trata de un aporte técnico para entender el contexto político, reivindicativo, pero principalmente legislativo del acceso a la tierra de sectores populares en el medio rural del Uruguay actual. El estudio parte de la intervención del Estado sobre el acceso a la tierra a través de las leyes e instrumentos complementarios a las mismas y la trama de sus aplicaciones concretas. Por lo tanto es un documento…

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    Policy Papers & Briefs
    September, 2015
    Uruguay

    Documento que en primer lugar realiza un breve recorrido histórico sobre el proceso de incorporación de tierras para ser distribuidas mediante el Instituto Nacional de Colonización, señalando la interacción entre Estado y sociedad civil en diferentes etapas, y algunas problemáticas estructurales para su efectiva aplicación. En segundo lugar, se identifican diversas intervenciones en materia de tenencia,…

  10. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2015
    Uruguay

    Documento exploratorio que analiza las acciones y demandas de las principales organizaciones sociales que representan a asalariados rurales y productores familiares en los últimos 10 años, describe los principales conflictos locales suscitados en torno al acceso a la tierra y plantea estimaciones aproximativas sobre la cantidad de solicitantes de tierra, tanto a nivel nacional como regional.

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