INTRODUCTION: The following report has been compiled to bring to the attention of a wider audience many of the problems facing the people of Burma, especially its many ethnic nationalities.
This study attempts to understand the impact of economic land concessions for agro-industrial production promoted by the government. This promotion heavily impacts on the locals’ livelihoods and obstructs decentralized natural resource management, especially in natural forest resources. They also examined locals’ response to such a development scheme.
ABSTRACTED FROM THE INTRODUCTION: There is little evidence... that ordinary Cambodians are benefiting from the mass confiscation of their land.
Vietnamese land-tenure policy reforms were embedded into general economic reforms (Doi Moi), enabling the country’s transition toward a market economy. Since 1998, they were implemented incrementally together with complementary instruments such as agricultural market liberalization and new economic incentives.
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 paper seeks to reconsider the contemporary relevance of the resource frontier, drawing on examples of nature's commodification and enclosure under way in the peripheral Southeast Asian country of Laos.
In hoofdstuk 8 van de Natuurbalans 2009 wordt ingegaan op de dilemma’s en barrières in de praktijk van het natuur- en landschapsbeleid. De realisatie van dit beleid is grotendeels gedecentraliseerd naar provincies. De feitelijke uitvoering vindt vaak weer plaats in gebiedsprocessen.
De regeling ter subsidiëring van Landschapsontwikkelingsplannen (LOP's) wordt herzien. Eén van de door LNV gewenste verbeterpunten – op basis van een uitgevoerde evaluatie - voor het functioneren van LOP's is een betere inbedding in de lokale planvorming. Onduidelijk voor LNV is hoe de afgelopen 10 jaar de LOP's zijn ingebed in bestemmingsplannen of andere lokale en/of gemeentelijke plannen.
In the last decade the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) has transformed itself into a provider of natural resources (timber, agricultural products, minerals, and energy) for its wealthier and more populated neighbours China, Vietnam and Thailand.
ABSTRACTED FROM INTRODUCTION: Lao PDR is the least densely populated country in Asia and has long been remote and isolated from the rest of the continent. This role has only recently begun to change.
Given its vast land resources and favorable water supply, the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC’s) natural agricultural potential is immense. However, the economic potential of the sector is handicapped by one of the most dilapidated transport systems in the developing world (World Bank 2006).