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   Financing Dispossession - China’s Opium Substitution Programme in Northern Burma

   Reports & Research

   January, 2012

   Myanmar

   farmland

   expropriation

   farming systems

   land grabbing

   tenure security

   Northern Burma’s borderlands have undergone dramatic changes in the last two decades. Three main and
   interconnected developments are simultaneously taking place in Shan State and Kachin State: (1) the increase
   in opium cultivation in Burma since 2006 after a decade of steady decline; (2) the increase at about the same
   time in Chinese agricultural investments in northern Burma under China’s opium substitution programme,
   especially in rubber; and (3) the related increase in dispossession of local communities’ land and livelihoods
   

2. Library Resource

   

   Why peace and land security is key to Burma's democratic future - Interview with Tom Kramer

   Reports & Research

   April, 2012

   Myanmar

   farmland

   expropriation

   farming systems

   tenure security

   land grabbing

   land tenure

   land tenure systems

   Analysis of the social costs of large-scale Chinese-supported rubber farms in northern Burma suggests that the future for ordinary citizens will be affected as much by the country's chosen economic path as the political reforms underway.