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Local shops provided rural households with an alternative source of income and became part of farmers’ coping strategy to sustain their livelihoods in the aftermath of land dispossession. Photo Credit: Diana Suhardiman/IWMI.
Farmers' strategies to cope with land loss ()
By Diana Suhardiman and Emily Koo Laos has conceded a significant amount of land to foreign investors, with estimates placing 15% of the country’s land under foreign control. Such land concessions, or the granting of rights to land, are positioned by the government as critical to economic growth…
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Is land governance a regional issue? ()
This blog was written as a contribution to the Mekong Regional Land Forum taking place from June 21-23 in Hanoi, Vietnam. Philip Hirsch is a keynote speaker at this event. By Philip Hirsch, Professor of Human Geography in the School of Geosciences at the University of Sydney It may seem strange…
Regional Training: Enhancing Open Access to Knowledge, Information and Data in the Mekong ()
By Nghia Le Trung, Chairman of the Advisory Council, National Center for Research and Development of Open Technologies (RDOT), Ministry of Science and Technology of Vietnam In February 2017, from the  26th to 28th, in Yangon, Myanmar, a regional training on ‘Enhancing Open Access to Knowledge,…