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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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Politics of Land Grabbing in the Borderland: A Case Study of Chongjom Border Market, Kabcheong District, Surin Province

Institutional & promotional materials
December, 2015
Cambodia, Thailand
Land & Food Security
Land & Investments
Land, Climate Change & Environment
food security
land grabbing
extractive industries
tenure security
land ownership
environment
Chongjom border is a contested area which reflects power-related relationship between center and its marginal space. From deserted borderland in the buffer zone during Khmer Rouge period, Chongjom becomes an emerging 4th ranking of cross-border trading between Thailand and Cambodia, where value of exporting goods have been increased up to 224.05 % in 2013. The politics of changes in land use and property relations change lead to widen of land grabbing in the area.
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Land Confiscations and Collective Action in Myanmar’s Dawei Special Economic Zone Area: Implications for Rural Democratization

Institutional & promotional materials
December, 2016
Myanmar
Land & Food Security
Land & Investments
development agencies
food security
land grabbing
extractive industries
tenure security
land ownership
land investments
land acquisitions
land policies
land law
The recent political and economic liberalization in Burma/Myanmar, while indicative of some positive steps toward democratization after decades of authoritarian rule, has simultaneously increased foreign and domestic investments and geared the economy toward industrialization and large-scale agriculture.
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Investment in land and water : proceedings of the regional consultation, Bangkok, 2001.

Institutional & promotional materials
December, 2002
Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Myanmar, Vietnam
Land & Food Security
food security
land
Summary report, recommendations and text of the "Bangkok Declaration" the total land area of the Asia and the Pacific region is 3,001 million ha or 22.9 percent of the world’s land area. However, adverse soils, climate and topographic factors limit the possibilities for sustainable agricultural production in about 86 percent of the region.Examines the constraints facing Asian countries in developing agriculture, sharing resources and obtaining food security in the face of climate change and other difficulties.
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Land issues top October development agenda as ECA, partners launch multiple studies across Africa

Institutional & promotional materials
October, 2012
Africa
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land & Food Security
development
agricultural land management
land policies
food security
sustainable land management
land administration
land
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Advocacy poster for state land allocation for land less people in Bangladesh

Institutional & promotional materials
October, 2012
Bangladesh
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
advocacy
capacity development
informal settlements
women
Uttaran is the pioneer leading national non-government to promote rights for landless people of Bangladesh since 1985. As part of its activities under land less people and state land settlement, it has already piloted the participatory land less selection process and state land identification. The process has been accelerated with number of communication materials such as posters, leaflets and brochures. This poster has described the discrimination between men and women during state land allocation and also promote advocacy agenda with government.
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Panfleto do Centro Terra Viva - Estudos e Advocacia Ambiental (CTV)

Institutional & promotional materials
December, 2016
Mozambique
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
advocacy
land law
local communities
O Centro Terra Viva – Estudos e Advocacia Ambiental (CTV) é uma instituição não governamental moçambicana, de investigação e intervenção ambiental, que congrega profissionais de diferentes áreas fundamentais para a gestão do ambiente e dos recursos naturais, com destaque para o Direito Ambiental, Conservação e Gestão Ambiental, Informação e Educação Ambiental, Economia Rural e Sociologia Ambiental.
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USING THE JUSTICE SYSTEM TO PROMOTE INTERNATIONAL BEST PRACTICE

Institutional & promotional materials
July, 2018
Africa
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
land policies
land reform
The Association for Rural Advancement (AFRA) partnered with the Legal Resources Centre (LRC), a South African human rights organisation, to launch a class action lawsuit against the Government of South Africa on behalf of a class of farm dwellers known as labour tenants. Under the 1996 Land Reform (Labour Tenants) Act, labour tenants were granted rights to apply for ownership of the land they occupied. However, the government has failed to implement this law, and 19,000 labour tenant claims remain pending.
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The State of Food and Agriculture

Biofuels: Prospects, Risks and Opportunities

Institutional & promotional materials
October, 2008
Global
Land & Food Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
food security
More than at any time in the past three decades, the world’s attention is focused this year on food and agriculture. A variety of factors have combined to raise food prices to the highest levels since the 1970 (in real terms), with serious implications for food security among poor populations around the world.
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Op-Ed: Putting land at the heart of radical economic transformation – a perspective from the ground

Institutional & promotional materials
April, 2017
South Africa
Land & Food Security
agricultural and rural legislation
The dominant debates about land in South Africa often focus on the transfer of land from a few white hands to the black majority. The discussion seldom unpacks who constitutes the “black majority” as this is not a homogeneous group. In instances where the debate touches on land use, again the focus is often limited to agricultural production and whether or not small-scale farmers are productive. This narrow framework clearly has to be broadened and we need to ask deeper and more strategic questions than the ones we have been asking.