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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    November, 2004
    Myanmar

    This article on China's forest trade with Myanmar builds on an earlier study by the same authors: “Navigating the Border: An Analysis of the China-Myanmar Timber Trade” [link]. The analysis in this study moves on to identify priority issues along the market chain of the timber trade from the Yunnan-Myanmar border to Guangdong Province and Shanghai on China’s eastern seaboard.

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    February, 2015
    Myanmar

    In Myanmar, as in other countries of the Mekong, it is widely acknowledged that the clearing of forests to
    make way for the expansion of commercial agricultural fields is increasingly the leading driver of deforestation,
    alongside legal and illegal logging, and the clearance of forest areas to make way for infrastructure projects
    such as roads and hydropower dams. While the conversion of forests for agricultural development has been
    occurring for many decades, it is the unprecedented rate of this conversion that is now so astounding — as

  3. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    October, 2012
    Myanmar

    The Farmland Law and the VFV Law were approved by Parliament on March 30th, 2012. There have
    been a few improvements compared to previous laws such as recognition of
    non-rotational taungya as
    a legitimate land-use and recognition that farmers are using VFV lands without formal recognition by
    the Government. However overall the Laws lack clarity and provide
    weak protection of the rights of
    smallholder farmers in upland areas and do not explicitly state the equal rights
    of women to register

  4. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    October, 2011
    Myanmar

    Table of Contents:-
    1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND MAJOR FINDINGS …
    2. HISTORICAL OVERVIEW ...
    3. NATIONAL FOREST STRATEGY, POLICIES AND REGULATIONS:
    3.1 The Myanmar Selection System and Annual Allowable Cut;
    3.2 Forest Law and Policy ;
    3.3 Forest Land Categories;
    3.4 Community Forestry;
    3.5 Impact of Forest Law Enforcement on Local People...
    4. DEMAND: DOMESTIC DEMAND AND WOOD EXPORTS:
    4.1 Domestic Demand ;
    4.2 Exports ...
    5. TIMBER SUPPLY: DOMESTIC PRODUCTION AND WOOD IMPORTS:
    5.1 Domestic Wood Production;

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