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Myanmar: All about the Myanmar FLEGT process
Myanmar
Archived web content
Forest cover in Myanmar is approximately 29 million hectares or about 43% of its national territory. Of this area, about 31% is managed by the State. According to the Food and A...
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The Impact of Armed Conflict and Displacement on Land Rights in Kachin State
Myanmar
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Kevin Woods
2016
Kachin internally displaced peoples (IDPs) have resided in IDP camps for over five years now due to displacement from armed conflict in northern Myanmar (Kachin and North Shan S...
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Exec Summary - Strategic Environmental Assessment of the Myanmar Hydropower Sector
The Myanmar hydropower sector, in the early stages of development, has the opportunity to develop sustainably by balancing electricity generation with environmental and social o...
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Central Committee_Announcement and Notification for COVID-19 Cases in Myanmar
Myanmar
Archived web content
2020
This record includes announcements and notifications of COVID-19 in Myanmar of National-Level Central Committee for Prevention, Control, and Treatment of COVID-19 from the Myanm...
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Myanmar's flawed new gemstone law set to restart gemstone permits in tainted sector
Myanmar
Archived web content
Archived webpage detailing Global Witness' view on Myanmar's 2019 Gemstone Law.
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Bringing within reach: The importance of engaging armed non-state actors to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic
Myanmar
Issue and policy briefs
2020
Since December 2019 COVID-19 has spread to 205 countries, areas or territories with over 1.4m confirmed cases, overwhelming even the most advanced health facilities and killing ...
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Alternative Development or Business as Usual?: Chinas Opium Substitution Policy in Burma and Laos
Myanmar
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
TNI, Transnational Institute
2010
A significant part of opium and its derivative heroin on the market in China originates from the ‘Golden Triangle’ – roughly the area that spans northern Burma, Thailand and Lao...
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Situation Reports of COVID-19 Cases in Myanmar
Myanmar
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
This dataset includes situation reports on COVID-19 from the official websites of the Ministry of Health and Sports, Myanmar.
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Tyrants, Tycoons and Tigers: Yuzana Company Ravages Burmas Hugawng Valley
Myanmar
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
KDNG, Kachin Development Networking Group
2010
A bitter land struggle is unfolding in northern Burma’s remote Hugawng Valley. Farmers that have been living for generations in the valley are defying one of the country’s most ...
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Politics of Food
China, Myanmar
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Heinrich Boll Foundation
2017
Small-scale farmers in Myanmar, where the economy and politics have just recently been liberalized, are witnessing rapid changes driven by international investors. Laws are bein...
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Data Collection Survey on Agriculture Sector in the Republic of the Union of Myanmar
Myanmar
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
JICA
2013
The Republic of the Union of Myanmar (hereinafter referred to as “Myanmar”), after experiencing a period of military administration since a democratic movement in 1988, enacted ...
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A Strategic Agriculture Sector and Food Security Diagnostic for Myanmar
Myanmar
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Ngu Wah Win, Naw Eh Mwee Aye Wai, Tin Maung Than, Duncan Boughton,...
2013
Despite its enormous potential, Myanmar’s agriculture has underperformed over the past fifty years. Today, per capita earnings in agriculture average roughly $200 a year, one-ha...
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Development Without Us: Village Agency and Land Confiscations in Southeast Myanmar
Myanmar
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Karen Human Rights Group, KHRG
2018
Ten years since our report on ‘Village Agency: Rural Rights and Resistance in Militarised Karen State’, KHRG’s agency approach is as important as ever to understanding the exper...
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From Conflicting to Complementing: The Formalisation of Customary Land Management Systems Governing Swidden Cultivation in Myanmar
Myanmar
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Jim Ennion, Victoria University of Wellington
2015
Swiddening is a traditional and widespread agricultural system in mountainous regions of Southeast Asia. It is prevalent in Myanmar’s hilly border region. However, economic, pol...
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A Strategic Agricultural Sector and Food Security Diagnostic for Myanmar
Myanmar
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Tin Maung Than, Zaw Oo, Tun Min Sandar, Ngu Wah Win, Duncan...
2013
Despite its enormous potential, Myanmar’s agriculture has underperformed over the past fifty years. Today, per capita earnings in agriculture average roughly $200 a year, one-ha...
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Agro-Based Industries in Myanmar: The Long Road to Industrialisation
Myanmar
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
San Thein, Institute of Developing Economies (IDE)
2006
The development objective of agro-based industry as one of policy instruments of industrialization had been and still continues to pursue over forty years in Myanmar. Yet its pe...
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Commodity Trading in Myanmar: Case Study on Oil and Gas
Myanmar
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
BDO Global
2020
The primary objective of the assignment is to produce an adequate and comprehensive Commodity Trading Report on disclosure of information regarding revenues from the sales of th...
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EITI Report for the Period April 2015- March 2016. Oil, Gas and Mining Sector
Myanmar
Advocacy and promotional materials
Moore Stephens LLP
2018
The purpose of this Report is to reconcile the data provided by companies operating in the extractive sector (hereafter referred to as “Companies”) with the data provided by rel...
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EITI Report for the Period April 2016- March 2017. Oil and Gas, Gems and Jade, Other Minerals and Pearl
This report summarised information about the reconciliation of tax and non-tax revenue from the extractive industries in Myanmar as part of the implementation of the Myanmar Ext...
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Whose Crops, at What Price? Agricultural Investment in Myanmar
Myanmar
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Jasmine Burnley, Oxfam
2017
After years of international isolation, Myanmar is liberalizing its economy and seeking to attract foreign investment. But while foreign investment can play an important role in...