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Agribusiness Investments in Myanmar: Opportunities and Challenges for Poverty Reduction
Myanmar
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
The Center for Myanmar Studies, Kevin Woods
2013
The agribusiness sector in Myanmar is predominately driven by influential Burmese companies with connections to military and government officials. Myanmar authorities have liber...
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Formalising Land, Marginalising Women? Norms and Customary Practices Regarding Land Rights in Dawei
Myanmar
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
LCG, Trocaire
2018
In 2012, the Farmland Law introduced a process for registering land through Land Use Certificates. The change from a customary form of land governance to a system governed throu...
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Taking Stock: Tracking Trends in European Aid for Forests and Communities
Myanmar
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Hugh Speechly, FERN
2015
Forests and forest-dependent communities are under increasing pressure due to infrastructure projects and the growing demand for agricultural commodities. Although there is incr...
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Our Customary Lands: Community-Based Sustainable Natural Resource Management in Burma
Myanmar
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
ECDF
2016
In January 2016 the government adopted a National Land Use Policy, which included the recognition of customary land management practices. While this is a welcome fi rst step in ...
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Debt, Dispossession and Growing Inequality in Shan State: A Policy Discussion Brief on Maize Contract Farming
Myanmar
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
LCG, Kevin Woods, Tobias Jackson, Land Core Group
2016
This policy brief, building on research conducted by the Land Core Group (LCG) [3], describes the maize contract farming scheme being implemented by Chareoun Phokphand (hereafte...
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Myths and Risks of the EU-Myanmar Investment Protection Agreement
Myanmar
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Cecilia Olivet, TNI, Pietje Vervest, TNI
2017
As the signing of the EU-Myanmar Investment Protection Agreement (IPA) draws near, concerns over the secrecy surrounding the agreement’s negotiations and the risks it poses abou...
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Chinese Investments in Myanmar: A Scoping Study [DRAFT]
Myanmar
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Kui Peng, GEI, Christopher Dunn, Lin Ji, GEI, GEI
2016
The purpose of this scoping study conducted by the Global Environmental Institute (GEI) is to provide a better understanding of the presence and operations of Chinese companies ...
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Promoting Participatory Decision-making for Better Policy Design and Implementation for Sustainable Agriculture in Myanmars Dry Zone
Myanmar
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Thijs Wissink, UNESCAP
2017
The main challenges for agriculture in the Dry Zone of Myanmar are climate change, access to finance for farmers, labour availability, access to machinery, knowledge and inputs,...
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Myanmar Agriculture in 2011: Old Problems and New Challenges
Myanmar
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
David Dapice, ASH Centre, Harvard University, Thomas Vallely, ASH...
2011
Conducted as a follow-up to a research paper released in 2010, this study assesses how contextual changes in Myanmar's government and the South-East Asian region have impacted t...
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Study on Agricultural Investments: Briefing Paper
Myanmar
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Food Security Working Group, FSWG
2015
Agricultural investments are crucial to improve productivity and to raise the incomes and food security of farmers and others alike. Investments by smallholder farmers themselve...
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Study on Agricultural Investments: Final Report
Myanmar
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Food Security Working Group, FSWG
2015
Agricultural investments are crucial to improve productivity and to raise the incomes and food security of farmers and others alike. Investments by smallholder farmers themselve...
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The Urgent Need to Prepare for Climate Displacement in Myanmar: Establishing a Myanmar National Climate Land Bank
Myanmar
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
EcoDev, Displacement Solutions
2018
This report provides a summary of the findings from two preliminary case studies of communities considered potentially vulnerable to the impacts of extreme weather events and cl...
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Shifting Cultivation in Myanmar’s REDD+ Development: A review of three REDD+ program documents
Myanmar
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Julia Fogerite
2018
This report provides a review of shifting cultivation across three Myanmar REDD+ programme documents. The initial background study on drivers of deforestation concluded that mor...
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Lessons for the Potential Use of Contract Farming with Small Land Holding Farmers in Myanmar
Myanmar
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Thomas A. Baker, Vahu Development Institute
2011
This paper will examine the possible use of contract farming with small land holding farmers as a tool to capitalize on the opportunity to improve the economic growth of Myanmar...
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REDD+ Safeguards in Myanmar (MM)
Myanmar
Advocacy and promotional materials
POINT
2017
REDD+ is an international initiative to mitigate climate change by protecting, sustainably managing, and regenerating forests. This document summarizes the REDD+ international ...
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Aquaculture in Transition: Value Chain Transformation, Fish and Food Security in Myanmar
Myanmar
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Ulrike Nischan, IFPRI, Thomas Reardon, L. Seng Kham, Kyan Htoo,...
2015
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Opportunities, Risks and Growing Inequality: The Charoen Pokphand Group and Maize Smallholder Production in Shan State, Myanmar
Myanmar
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Land Core Group, Kevin Woods, Land Core Group
2015
This dataset has no description
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Legal Review of the Recently Enacted Farmland Law and Vacant, Fallow and Virgin Lands Management Law: Improving the Legal & Policy Frameworks Relating to Land Management in Myanmar (MM)
Myanmar
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Forest Trends, Oberndorf, R., LCG, FSWG-LCG
2012
This dataset has no description
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REDD+ and Women's Rights in Myanmar
Myanmar
Advocacy and promotional materials
POINT
2017
This document summarizes how the REDD+ international safeguards and the Myanmar national social and environmental safeguards principles relate to women's rights.
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Debt, Dispossession and Growing Inequality in Shan State: A Policy Discussion Brief on Maize Contract Farming (MM)
Myanmar
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
LCG, Tobias Jackson, Kevin Woods, Land Core Group
2016
This dataset has no description