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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    March, 2016
    Myanmar

    We are at a critical juncture in our history, more promising than at any time in recent memory. The country will have a civilian-majority government that came to office through the votes of a multitude of smaller nationality groups for a pan-national party promising political change. If this political transition is to succeed, poverty must be alleviated, corruption curtailed, drug abuse radically reduced, and a host of other social crises addressed that have long blighted our country.

  2. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    November, 2010
    Myanmar

    Access to land for smallholder farmers is a critical foundation for food security in Myanmar's uplands. Land tenure guarantees seem to be eroding and access to land becoming more difficult in some upland areas. If this trend continues it may have negative impacts for food security and undermine environmental and economic sustainability. This briefing paper explores the relationship between land tenure and food security, as well as key institutional and other factors that influence land access and tenure for smallholder farmers in the uplands today...

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    March, 2015
    Myanmar

    As Myanmar’s junta prepared to step down from government, the military set about seizing public assets and natural resources to ensure its economic control in a new era of democratic rule.

    Guns, Cronies and Crops details the collusion at the heart of operations carried out by Myanmar’s armed forces in northeastern Shan State. Large swathes of land were taken from farming communities in the mid-2000s and handed to companies and political associates to develop rubber plantations.

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    August, 2004
    Myanmar

    The politics of Burma and deforestation:
    a. Politics of Burma;

    b. Logging and civil war...

    Kachin State by PKDS:
    a. Logging business:

    b. Who benefits from the logging...

    Karen State by KESAN:
    a. Doo The Htoo District;
    b. Mu Traw District (Pa Pun);

    c. Toungoo District...
    Conclusions and recommendations by KESAN...

    Maps...

  5. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    January, 2012
    Myanmar

    BURMA: Farmers' land fight celebrated in new booklet...

    (Hong Kong, January 10, 2012) A Burma-based rights group has released a new publication documenting and recounting the courageous fight against land expropriation, intimidation and false prosecution of a group of rural villagers.

  6. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    February, 2008
    Myanmar

    Executive Summary: "The people of Karenni State are living ghosts. Their daily survival is an
    achievement; however, it also signifies their further descent into poverty and a
    spiralling system of repression. Whilst this report documents the deteriorating
    situation in Karenni State over the past six years, this is nothing new for the
    ethnically diverse population of this geographically small area. They have been
    living in a protracted conflict zone for over 50 years with no respite from decades

  7. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    September, 2009
    Myanmar

    Message from KDNG: "As a network of residents of Kachin State, we, the Kachin Development Networking Group, have been monitoring plans by the stateowned China Power Investment Corporation and Burma’s military regime to build seven dams on the Irrawaddy River and its two main tributaries. In 2007 we published the report, "Damming the Irrawaddy" which surveyed the environment and peoples in the affected area and analyzed the negative impacts of these dams. Today construction of the 2,000-megawatt Chibwe Dam on the N’Mai River is already underway.

  8. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    September, 2009
    Myanmar

    Message from KDNG: "As a network of residents of Kachin State, we, the Kachin Development Networking Group, have been monitoring plans by the stateowned China Power Investment Corporation and Burma’s military regime to build seven dams on the Irrawaddy River and its two main tributaries. In 2007 we published the report, "Damming the Irrawaddy" which surveyed the environment and peoples in the affected area and analyzed the negative impacts of these dams. Today construction of the 2,000-megawatt Chibwe Dam on the N’Mai River is already underway.

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