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Securing Land Rights of Smallholder Farmers

The Secure Access to Land and Resources (SALaR) Project Experience in Laos, the Philippines, and Uganda

Reports & Research
August, 2021
Uganda, Laos, Philippines
Land & Food Security
land governance
poverty
natural resources
natural resources management
land rights
land access
land tenure
land tenure systems
property
property rights
farmers
smallholders
youth
women
This report summarizes the background, achievements and emerging outcomes of the Securing Access to Land and Resources (SALaR) project implemented towards improving land and natural resources tenure security for rural poor smallholder farmers, including women, men, youth and vulnerable groups in Uganda, Philippines and Laos.
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Women’s Land and Property Rights under Customary or Traditional Tenure Systems in Five Ethnic Groups in Lao PDR

Reports & Research
December, 2008
Laos
Land & Gender
title deeds
land titling
women
poverty
land policies
land law
ABSTRACTED FROM SUMMARY: Many ethnic groups practice a system of land use and resource management which is uniquely adapted for upland areas. This has developed over generations as part of traditional ways of life, and is underpinned through ritual and customary practices. This study looks at how women’s land and property rights are established and maintained under these customary or traditional tenure systems. Five different ethnic groups were studied: Brao, Trieng, Hmong, Khmu and Tai Dam.
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Rubber, rights and resistance: the evolution of local struggles against a Chinese rubber concession in Northern Laos

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2015
Laos
Land & Investments
legal empowerment
development agencies
land grabbing
extractive industries
tenure security
land ownership
land investments
land acquisitions
poverty
Over the past 10 years, transnational land grabs for rubber tree plantations have proliferated across Laos. Plantation concessions are being established on village lands that are represented as ‘degraded’ and legally classified as ‘state forests’, expropriated by government officials in the name of poverty alleviation with promises that plantations will provide new wage labour opportunities for those dispossessed.
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Women's empowerment and gender equity in agriculture: A different perspective from Southeast Asia

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2017
Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
land equity
poverty
food security
women
Women's empowerment is considered a ‘prerequisite’ to achieving global food security. Gender systems, however, are diverse and complex. The nature and extent of gender inequity and the conditions necessary to empower women vary across countries, communities and regions. The study of different gender systems is thus fundamental to capture cross-cultural variations in gender specific needs and constraints to effectively address gender gaps.
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Land Use and Land Cover Changes during the Second Indochina War and Their Long-Term Impact on a Hilly Area in Laos

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2019
Laos
Land & Food Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
poverty
food security
environment
land cover change
Armed conflicts create drastic socioeconomic shocks that lead to land use and land cover changes in ways that are not yet well understood. Several studies have used satellite imagery to detect such changes during periods of conflict. However, there has been an insufficient examination of older conflicts before the 1970s. By examining older conflicts, we can examine the effects of conflict on land use and land cover over a long time span.
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Participatory Poverty Assessment II (2006)

Reports & Research
December, 2007
Laos
Land & Food Security
agriculture
agricultural land management
sustainable land management
sustainable land use
farmers
farming systems
food security
poverty
This participatory poverty assessment (PPA 2006) comprises one component of ADB’s Technical Assistance to the Lao People’s Democratic Republic for Institutional Strengthening for Poverty Monitoring and Evaluation. The goal of this PPA, as with the first PPA in 2000, is to complement the statistical analyses of poverty in a meaningful way and to record the experiences and concerns of the poor in order to initiate and identify more effective forms of public and private actions to alleviate poverty.
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Women, Food and Land: Understanding the impact of gender on nutrition, food security and community resilience in Lao PDR

Reports & Research
December, 2013
Laos
Land & Food Security
Land & Investments
Land & Gender
food security
land investments
land acquisitions
land grabbing
women
poverty
ABSTRACTED FROM EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: This report highlights important dimensions of food security in rural Lao PDR, including: the different gender roles in agriculture; reliance on community-level social cohesion as both a coping mechanism and means of livelihood; and the ongoing challenge of shifting rural livelihoods from a subsistence basis towards market-orientation. The findings of this report give a snapshot of rural livelihoods and practice.
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Access to productive agricultural land by the landless, land poor and smallholder farmers in four Lower Mekong River Basin countries

Reports & Research
December, 2015
Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
Land & Investments
land grabbing
extractive industries
tenure security
land ownership
poverty
land policies
land law
With a focus on the Lower Mekong countries, this study considers the intersecting issues of land access, livelihoods, management of risk and poverty for men and women smallholder farmers, the land poor and the landless, and how these issues might be addressed in policy and practice. While there has recently been insightful analysis concerning land access, livelihoods, and global land insecurity, we know much less regarding specific mechanisms that keep rural agricultural smallholders and the landless or land poor struggling and it is these issues that we address within this report
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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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The Recognition of Customary Tenure in Lao PDR

Reports & Research
December, 2017
Laos
Land & Food Security
legal empowerment
development agencies
food security
title deeds
land titling
poverty
WEBSITE INTRODUCTION: This thematic study presents a country-level overview of customary tenure arrangements in Lao PDR. It examines the extent of customary tenure and land formalization in the country, key policy changes that have impacted on customary arrangements, the degree to which customary land is recognized legally and in practice, and explores opportunities for better recognition. Customary tenure covers a wide range of land types and resources, and provides livelihood security for a majority of the Lao rural population, particularly ethnic minorities and women.