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A Strategic Agricultural Sector and Food Security Diagnostic for Myanmar

Reports & Research
December, 2013
Myanmar
Land & Food Security
agriculture
agricultural land management
sustainable land management
sustainable land use
farmers
farming systems
food security
land policies
land law
ABSTRACTED FROM THE INTRODUCTION: This report provides a strategic assessment of the key issues, opportunities, constraints and choices facing Myanmar’s agricultural sector. Discussion focuses on pathways that will permit agriculture to contribute meaningfully to broad-based improvements in purchasing power and food security for the country’s many landless and vulnerable households. In doing so, it aims to assist public and private stakeholders who will be making the key investment and policy decisions governing future agricultural and food security trajectories in Myanmar.
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Adult health in the time of drought

Peer-reviewed publication
Journal Articles & Books
December, 2003
Land & Gender
Land & Food Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
property rights
women
farming systems
agriculture
youth
natural resources management
agricultural and rural legislation
fisheries
It is a well-known fact that households in developing countries often undergo weather-related and other shocks that drastically affect incomes. A large and growing literature explores the effectiveness of response to these events. One strand of the literature addresses the strategies that households and governments use to protect against income shocks (Udry 1990; Fafchamps, Udry, and Czukas 1998; Kochar 1999). A second strand looks at the effectiveness of these strategies in reducing fluctuations in consumption.
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Agricultural commercialization, economic development, and nutrition

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 1994
Southern Asia, Eastern Asia, Africa, India, Bangladesh, China
Land & Food Security
agricultural and rural legislation
agriculture
farming systems
agricultural land management
food security
A large body of literature makes the argument that commercialization of agriculture has mainly negative effects on the employment, incomes, food production and consumption, health, and nutrition of the poor. In Commercialization of Agriculture, Economic Development, and Nutrition, Joachim von Braun and Eileen Kennedy find that the conclusion that commercialization of agriculture is generally bad for nutrition is flawed.
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Agricultural land conversion and its effects on farmers in contemporary Vietnam

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2009
Vietnam
Land & Food Security
Land & Investments
Urban Tenure
agriculture
agricultural land management
sustainable land management
sustainable land use
farmers
farming systems
food security
land distribution
land reform
land investments
land acquisitions
land grabbing
land policies
land law
urban areas
Đổi Mới, the name given to the economic reforms initiated in 1986 in Vietnam, has renewed the party-state’s ambitious scheme of industrialization and has intensified the process of urbanization in Vietnam. A large area of land has been converted for these purposes, with various effects on both the state and society. This article sheds light on how land conversion has resulted in farmers’ resistance and in what way and to what extent it has transformed their livelihoods in the transitional context of contemporary Vietnam.
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Agricultural Sector Development Program (ASDP)

Environmental and Social Management Framework

National Policies
March, 2006
Tanzania
Land & Food Security
agrarian reform
agrarian structure
agricultural and rural legislation
agricultural land management
agriculture
agropastoral systems
In August 2001, The Government of Tanzania (GoT) approved the Agricultural Sector Development Strategy (ASDS) which envisages an agricultural sector that, by 2025, is modernized, commercial, highly productive and profitable, and utilizes natural resources in a sustainable manner. The ASDS has identified five strategic issues:

• Strengthening the institutional framework.

• Creating a favorable environment for commercial activities.

• Clarifying public and private sector roles in improving support services.
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Agriculture and natural resources: Overview

Peer-reviewed publication
Journal Articles & Books
December, 2003
Land & Gender
Land & Food Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
property rights
women
farming systems
agriculture
youth
natural resources management
agricultural and rural legislation
fisheries
Much has been written about the importance of gender issues in designing and implementing agricultural evelopment projects (Cloud 1983; Alderman et al. 1994; Quisumbing et al. 1998). Part of this literature has been motivated by the important role that women play in food production, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa (Boserup 1970; Dixon 1982; Gladwin and Macmillan 1989), as well as in the management of natural resources (Meinzen-Dick et al. 1997).
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Agriculture, resource management and institutions : A socioeconomic analysis of households in Tigray, Ethiopia

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2006
Ethiopia
Land & Food Security
farming systems
land policies
Empirical investigation of the impact of institutional and socioeconomic factors on agricultural productivity and natural resource conditions is important for an informed evaluation of current policies, and to identify areas for future improvements. In this line, the current study addresses three topics of relevance to the process of agricultural intensification and natural resource management in the context of the less-favoured Highlands of Tigray, Ethiopia.
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Agroforestry systems for food and nutrition security: potentials, pathways and policy research needs

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2002
Land & Food Security
agroforestry systems
land policies
farming systems
food security
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Agroforestry systems for food and nutrition security: potentials, pathways and policy research needs

Peer-reviewed publication
Journal Articles & Books
December, 2002
Land & Food Security
agroforestry systems
land policies
farming systems
food security
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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.