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Agribusiness Models for Inclusive Growth in Myanmar: Diagnosis and Ways Forward

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2014
Myanmar
Land & Investments
agriculture
agricultural land management
sustainable land management
sustainable land use
farmers
farming systems
land grabbing
extractive industries
tenure security
land ownership
land distribution
land reform
land investments
land acquisitions
land policies
land law
Successful development experiences have demonstrated the greater efficiency achieved with a growth strategy based on small and medium-scale farmers (SMFs). This study is sought to identify potential agribusiness models for enhancing inclusive growth through NGOs partnerships with SMFs in Myanmar. The paper illustrates that agricultural sector in Myanmar is characterised by already high land inequality and landlessness, and low productivity of most SMFs.
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Allocation or appropriation? How spatial and temporal fragmentation of land allocation policies facilitates land grabbing in Northern Laos

Institutional & promotional materials
December, 2015
Laos
Land & Food Security
Land & Investments
agriculture
agricultural land management
sustainable land management
sustainable land use
farmers
farming systems
food security
land grabbing
extractive industries
tenure security
land ownership
land investments
land acquisitions
title deeds
land titling
poverty
land policies
land law
The Lao Land and Forest Allocation Policy (LFAP) was intended to provide clearer property rights for swidden farmers living in mountainous areas. These lands are legally defined as “State” forests but are under various forms of customary tenure. The policy involves demarcating village territorial boundaries, ecological zoning of lands within village territories, and finally allocating a limited number of individual land parcels to specific households for farming.
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Are the Odds of Justice “Stacked” Against Them? Challenges and Opportunities for Securing Land Claims by Smallholder Farmers in Myanmar

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2016
Myanmar
Land & Investments
land law
land policies
land grabbing
land ownership
tenure security
legal empowerment
smallholders
development agencies
extractive industries
In 2012, the Government of Myanmar passed the Farmland Law and the Vacant, Fallow, Virgin Land Law, with an aim to increase investment in land through the formalization of a land market. Land titling is often considered “the natural end point of land rights formalization.” A major obstacle to achieving this in Myanmar is its legacy of multiple regimes which has created “stacked laws.” This term refers to a situation in which a country has multiple layers of laws that exist simultaneously, leading to conflicts and contradictions in the legal system.
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Behind "successful" land acquisition - A case study of the Van Quan new urban area project in Hanoi, Vietnam

Reports & Research
December, 2009
Vietnam
Land & Investments
Urban Tenure
land grabbing
extractive industries
tenure security
land ownership
land distribution
land reform
land investments
land acquisitions
farmers
land policies
land law
urban areas
The transition to a market economy has sparked Vietnam's unprecedented urbanization and industrialization. In order to accommodate the spiraling land demand triggered by urban and economic growth, the Vietnamese government has been using the mechanism of compulsory acquisition at an astounding scale to convert massive amount of agricultural land to urban land for non-agricultural uses. A large number of the country's poorest, most vulnerable citizens have been forced out of their land to make way for development projects, yet, they are also the group that have least benefited from them.
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Challenges and Opportunities in Promoting VGGT to Secure Tenure Rights of Family Farmers

Reports & Research
September, 2015
Asia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Kyrgyzstan
farmers
farming systems
land governance
land law
land policies
land tenure systems
tenure security
VGGT
In 2014-2015, the Asian Farmers Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) implemented a project entitled “Popularizing the VGGT Among Small Scale Farmers Organizations, Relevant National Government and Inter-governmental Organizations” with the support of the International Land Coalition (ILC).
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Displacement and dispossession: Forced migration and land rights in Burma

Reports & Research
December, 2007
Myanmar
Land & Investments
Urban Tenure
land grabbing
extractive industries
tenure security
land ownership
farmers
land policies
land law
urban areas
ABSTRACTED FROM EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Burma today is experiencing a crisis in security of land tenure, which includes the widespread abuse of human, economic, social, cultural, and political rights. This report, Displacement and Dispossession: Forced Migration and Land Rights in Burma focuses on land confiscation by Government forces, responsible for Burma’s most acute Housing, Land and Property (HLP) rights abuses. Among the most vulnerable populations are more than one million internally displaced people in Burma, most from ethnic nationality communities.
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Food security, agricultural policy and the role of small-scale farms

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2013
Global
Land & Food Security
farmers
land access
tenure security
food security
land policies
Increasing prices for agricultural commodities offer a historic opportunity to intensify production systems for small-scale farmers in many developing countries. But without agricultural policies supporting them in making use of this opportunity, many of them would lose their access to land and income, resulting in aggravated food insecurity.
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Land policies and farm productivity in Thailand

Journal Articles & Books
July, 1988
Thailand
Land & Food Security
agricultural land management
farmers
land acquisitions
land ownership
land policies
land rights
research
rural areas
tenure security
This study assesses the economic implications of land ownership security in rural Thailand. It uses data from this country to rigorously analyze several aspects of land ownership security. It provides both qualitative and quantiative information on the effects of ownership security. The study presents a conceptual model and literature review and is followed by separate discussions on the evolution of land rights in Thailand; the study methodology and the nature of the data; and the credit market.
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Land tenure in rural lowland Myanmar

From historical perspectives to contemporary realities in the Dry Zone and the Delta

Journal Articles & Books
Reports & Research
October, 2017
Myanmar
land administration
land registration
land titling
land governance
land policies
land reform
land management
farmland
agriculture
land
land loans
landlessness
land access
land conflicts
land tenure
tenure security
advocacy
farmers
landowners
This study emerged out of an identified need to document social processes leading to land insecurity, and those leading to investment and sustainable use of lands by rural populations. Focusing on the Delta and Dry Zone, the main paddy producing regions of Myanmar, this analysis unravels the powers at play in shaping rural households’ relationship to land.
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Large-Scale Land Acquisitions for Agricultural Development in Myanmar: A Review of Past and Current Processes

Reports & Research
December, 2018
Myanmar
Land & Investments
agriculture
agricultural land management
sustainable land management
sustainable land use
farmers
farming systems
land grabbing
extractive industries
tenure security
land ownership
land investments
land acquisitions
land policies
land law
WEB INTRODUCTION: The literature on agricultural large-scale land acquisition in Myanmar is rather fragmented and consists mainly of case studies. While these provide key insights into particular stories, they often fail to identify the main patterns and trends at country level. To fill such gaps, this thematic study aims to present an updated synthesis of the genealogy, institutional complexity and the ins and outs of large-scale land acquisition processes for agricultural development in Myanmar.