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Labor Contracts, Incentives, and Food Security in Rural Myanmar

Reports & Research
December, 2005
Myanmar
Land & Food Security
food security
Abstract:
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Deserted Fields: The destruction of agriculture in Mong Nai Township, Shan State

Reports & Research
December, 2005
Myanmar
Land & Food Security
agricultural land management
land policies
food security
farmers
farming systems
land governance
expropriation
land grabbing
land rights
farmland
Summary:
"Wrong-headed agricultural and development policies, counter-insurgency activities, as well
as corruption and cronyism by the Burmese military regime, have all caused a dramatic
decrease in rice production and food security in southern Shan State over the past ten years.
The township of Mong Nai provides a good example of how food security, commonly defined
as the physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food at all times, has
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Nyaunglebin District: Food supplies destroyed, villagers forcibly displaced, and region-wide forced labour as SPDC forces seek control over civilians

Reports & Research
May, 2005
Myanmar
Land Conflicts
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
agricultural land management
food security
farmers
land governance
displacement
Indigenous Peoples
local communities
Between October 2004 and January 2005 SPDC troops launched forays into the hills of Nyaunglebin District in an attempt to flush villagers down into the plains and a life under SPDC control. Viciously timed to coincide with the rice harvest, the campaign focused on burning crops and landmining the fields to starve out the villagers. Most people fled into the forest, where they now face food shortages and uncertainty about this year's planting and the security of their villages.
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Pa'an District: Food Security in Crisis for Civilians in Rural Areas

Reports & Research
March, 2005
Myanmar
Land & Food Security
agricultural land management
land policies
food security
farmers
farming systems
land governance
expropriation
land grabbing
farmland
Released on March 30, 2005...
This bulletin examines the factors causing many villagers in Pa'an district to say that they now face a deepening food and money shortage crisis which is threatening their health and survival. Based on villagers' testimony, the main factors appear to be recurring forced labour for both SPDC and DKBA authorities, made worse in some areas by orders for farmers to double-crop on their land and the encroachment of new SPDC military bases on villages and farmland.
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PROMISED LAND: Competing Visions of Agrarian Reform

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2006
Global
Land & Food Security
food security
Agrarian reform is back at the center of the national and rural development debate, a debate of vital importance to the future of the Global South and genuine economic democracy. The World Bank as well as a number of national governments and local land owning elites have weighed in with a series of controversial policy changes. In response, peasants landless, and indigenous peoples’ organizations around the world have intensified their struggle to redistribute land from the underutilized holdings of a wealthy few to the productive hands of the many.
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Strategies for Sustainable Land Reform in the Karoo Hoogland

Reports & Research
September, 2005
South Africa
Land & Food Security
Land & Investments
land reform
This report examines the ways in which a local municipality can assist small holder farmers in a semiarid region. It highlights the range of smallholder producers and proposes different strategies for their effective support.
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Recommendations on role of municipalities in land reform and an assessment of land reform related resources in the Cape Winelands District

Reports & Research
March, 2005
South Africa
Land & Food Security
land reform
land-use planning
The Cape Winelands District Municipality has identified land reform as one of the key factors that can address empowerment and poverty eradication in its municipal area. Its role and the availability of resources for land reform in the District are not
clear and it is seeking the support of an agency to achieve the following objectives:
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The Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act, 2005

Legislation
September, 2005
India
Land & Food Security
land inheritance rights
land ownership
property rights
women
This Hindu Succession Act Amendment made in 2005 was to grant, among others, rights to women to inherit agricultural land of the parents and husband. Under this amendment the daughters, including married daughters, are coparceners in joint family property, with the same birth right as sons, to share, claim partition, and (by presumption) to become karta (managers), while also sharing the liabilities. This would be applicable for Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists and Jains religious communities of India.
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Multifunctionality of Agriculture: An Inquiry Into the Complementarity Between Landscape Preservation and Food Security

Conference Papers & Reports
December, 2005
Finland, Norway, Iceland
Land & Food Security
food security
land economics
Without support, the levels of agricultural public goods will fall short of the demand in high cost countries like Norway, Finland and Iceland. However, as demonstrated in this paper using Norway as a case, the current support and agricultural activity is far out of proportions from a public goods perspective. Model simulations show that at most 40% of the current support level can be defended by the public good argument. Furthermore, the present support, stimulating high production levels, is badly targeted at the public goods in question.
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Synthesis of Sub-Saharan Africa case study reports

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2005
Africa
Land & Food Security
food security
poverty