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  • Myanmar's flawed new gemstone law set to restart gemstone permits in tainted sector

    Archived webpage detailing Global Witness' view on Myanmar's 2019 Gemstone Law.

  • Bringing within reach: The importance of engaging armed non-state actors to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic

    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 ...

  • Alternative Development or Business as Usual?: Chinas Opium Substitution Policy in Burma and Laos

    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...

  • Situation Reports of COVID-19 Cases in Myanmar

    This dataset includes situation reports on COVID-19 from the official websites of the Ministry of Health and Sports, Myanmar.

  • Tyrants, Tycoons and Tigers: Yuzana Company Ravages Burmas Hugawng Valley

    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 ...

  • Politics of Food

    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...

  • Data Collection Survey on Agriculture Sector in the Republic of the Union of Myanmar

    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 ...

  • A Strategic Agriculture Sector and Food Security Diagnostic for Myanmar

    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...

  • Development Without Us: Village Agency and Land Confiscations in Southeast Myanmar

    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...

  • From Conflicting to Complementing: The Formalisation of Customary Land Management Systems Governing Swidden Cultivation in Myanmar

    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...

  • A Strategic Agricultural Sector and Food Security Diagnostic for Myanmar

    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...

  • Agro-Based Industries in Myanmar: The Long Road to Industrialisation

    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...

  • Commodity Trading in Myanmar: Case Study on Oil and Gas

    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...

  • EITI Report for the Period April 2015- March 2016. Oil, Gas and Mining Sector

    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...

  • 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...

  • Whose Crops, at What Price? Agricultural Investment in Myanmar

    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...

  • Contract farming in ASEAN Countries: a fact finding study

    This fact finding study was carried out for Oxfam Novib to better understand the role of contract farming in poverty alleviation in ASEAN countries. The literature study is guid...

  • WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP)

    The WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (JMP) is a platform that reports the country, regional and global estimates of progress on dri...

  • National Updates on Agribusiness Large Scale Land Acquisitions in Southeast Asia Brief #8 of 8: Union of Burma

    A growing body of literature and studies suggests that Burma has become the ‘latest flashpoint in an alarming trend’ of global land grabs. Sources suggest that the land and reso...

  • Political Brief on the Principles of Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems

    On October 15, 2014, the Member States of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS), hosted at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation, approved the “Principles on...

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