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

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Date of publication: 
December 2013
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ISBN / Resource ID: 
MLRF:1689
Pages: 
140-157
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Forest Peoples Programme

Part of a 3 year collaboration among the national human rights institutions of the region. Each of 8 national studies aims to pull together in a simple form, updated information about large-scale land acquisitions in the region, with the aim of identifying trends, common threats, divergences and possible solutions. As well as summarising trends in investment, trade, crop development and land tenure arrangements, the studies focus on the land tenure and human rights challenges. seven national updates have been compiled based on the available literature for Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia, Indonesia, TimorLeste and the Philippines, each following a similar format. The studies seek to summarise what laws and policies already exist in national human rights frameworks that could ensure respect for rights in large-scale land development and, on the basis of this analysis, recommend possible solutions to the problems identified.

Authors and Publishers

Author(s), editor(s), contributor(s): 

Chao, Sophie
Chao, Sophie

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Forest Peoples Programme supports the rights of peoples who live in forests and depend on them for their livelihoods. We work to create political space for forest peoples to secure rights, control their lands and decide their own futures.

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