Thailand

The most prosperous country in the Mekong region, Thailand also has the longest-standing land policy and practices, including an uninterrupted tradition of private land ownership.

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51,089,000 ha

36.4

16,904.7 USD

69,428,524

50 %

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43.3 %

71.6 %

6,726,000 ha

284,225 ha

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There Has Been Blood

3 August 2021

The global thirst for palm oil has never been more ravenous. Caught between it and a multigenerational war on Thailand’s poor are the farmers of the Southern Peasants’ Federation, who simply want a piece of land to call their own. Main photo: Palm tree jungles and the mountains of Surat Thani…

Thailand: Land Rights Activist Gunned Down

10 May 2021

(New York) – Thai authorities should immediately investigate the killing of Somsak Onchuenjit, a lawyer and land rights activist, in Trang province in southern Thailand, Human Rights Watch said today. Successive Thai governments have failed to prevent or adequately respond to attacks against human…

Job Opportunity: Communications and Event Management Specialist

17 February 2021

MRLG is hiring a Communications and Event Management for Specialist for the Mekong Region Land Forum 2021. MRLG and its partners successfully organized two Regional Land Forums, first in Hanoi in 2016 and then Bangkok in 2018. The second Regional Land Forum, co-organized with the Food and…

Thailand

projects

SNV: Joint programme on sustainable forest management in Asia (Partnership SNV-RECOFTC)

Donors: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands

Promoting Ecosystem-based Adaptation through Mangrove Restoration and Sustainable Use in Thailand and Vietnam

Value: $2,500,000.00

Donors: German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development

ASEAN Partnership on Social Forestry and Climate Change

Value: $10,300,000.00

Donors: Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation

Action for Access and Management Rights to Land and Natural Resources of Small Farmers in Northern Thailand

Value: $670,000.00

Donors: European Union

Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples Rights

Value: $1,000,000.00

Donors: Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Denmark)

The power of storytelling

18 May 2022

The Land Portal advocates for more and better open land data, but more and better have never been our end objectives. Data must be used; it needs a purpose. One of the ways we practice what we preach is through our data stories. The Land Portal regularly produces data stories on a wide range of…