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Demonstrating agricultural land use practices in the uplands
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Guidelines, instruction manuals, handbooks
Thongphath Leuangkhamma, Somsak Sysomvang and Peter Jones,...
2001
A handbook demonstrating land use practices in the uplands (referred to as “Land Use Plan”) undertaken by the Lao Swedish Forestry Programme.
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Assessment of the environmental and social impacts created by the VLRC industrial rubber plantation and proposed environmental and social plans
Lao People's Democratic Republic, Viet Nam
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
François Obein, Agence Française de Développement
2007
Vietnam General Rubber Corporation entered into an Authorisation and Licence Agreement with the Government of Lao PDR on the 18th of January 2005 for the devel...
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Industrial rubber plantation of the Viet-Lao rubber company, Bachiang District, Champasack Province
Lao People's Democratic Republic
EIA/SEIA
Francois Obein
2007
Assessment of the environmental and social impacts created by the VLRC industrial rubber plantation, and proposed environmental and social plans to mitigate negative impacts.
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Agriculture and natural resources sector needs assessment
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
ADB
2007
This document is the Inception Report for the Agriculture and Natural Resources Sector Needs Assessment (TA: 4843-LAO) to evaluate development in the ANR sector.
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Documenting Customary Tenure in Myanmar: a guidebook
Myanmar
Guidelines, instruction manuals, handbooks
Celine Allaverdian, Julia Fogerite, Natalia Scurrah, Si Thu Than Htike
2017
Mekong Region Land Governance (MRLG)'s first edition guidebook to customary tenure in Myanmar provides conceptual, legal and practical tools and resources to help civil society ...
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Cambodia: Land in conflict, an overview of the land situation
Cambodia
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR)
2013
Conflict over land, combined with the systematic violation of land rights, is one of the most prominent human rights problems faced by Cambodians. The root of this problem can b...
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Timber markets and trade between Laos and Vietnam
Lao People's Democratic Republic, Viet Nam
Analysis, discussion papers, and blogs
Forest Trends
2010
The article assesses the timber trade from Laos to Vietnam as inputs for furniture production and the impacts on forest management in Laos in terms of scale. It releases finding...
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Chinese Banana Plantations Lose Their Appeal in Laos as Pollution Concerns Grow
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Archived web content
Ounkeo Souksavanh, Brooks Boliek
2016
A boom in banana demand led to heavy agricultural investment in northern Laos as Chinese investors offered strong financial incentives to farmers to change land management pract...
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Conversion timber, forest monitoring, and land-use governance in Cambodia
Cambodia
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Forest Trends Association
2015
This report presents an overview of national patterns and practices of forest land clearance during the 2012-2013 dry season as a basis for discussing challenges for Forest Law ...
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Inside and outside the maps: mutual accommodation and forest destruction in Cambodia
Cambodia
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Courtney Work , Ratha Thuon
2017
The paper focuses on how climate change mitigation policies and economic land and mining concessions in Prey Lang, Cambodia, accommodate and facilitate each other physically, di...
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Civil society participation in land policy making: the innovative experience of Myanmar’s pre-consultation on the National Land Use Policy
Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam
Analysis, discussion papers, and blogs
Eben Forbes
2017
A discussion paper on civil society's participation in land policy-making, focused on the pre-consultation phase of Myanmar's National Land Use Policy. Written by Eben Forbes,...
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The political economy of land governance in the Mekong Region
Cambodia, China, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Philip Hirsch, Natalia Scurrah
2015
This report presents a political-economic analysis of land governance at the regional level, focusing on the Mekong Region. The primary emphasis is on Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar an...
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Research evaluation of economic, social, and ecological implications of the programme for commercial tree plantations
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Chanthaviphone Inthavong, Centre for Research and Information on...
2009
This report aims to evaluate the economic, social and ecological impacts of large-scale land concessions to plant rubber and make recommendations for the future management of la...
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Trying to follow the Money: Possibilities and limits of investor transparency in Southeast Asia’s rush for “available” land
Cambodia, China, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam
Analysis, discussion papers, and blogs
Michael B. Dwyer
2015
This study uses publicly available financial and spatial data to examine the geography of land-intensive investment in Southeast Asia, and to identify the limits imposed by pro...
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‘Better-practice’ Concessions? Some Lessons from Cambodia’s Leopard Skin Landscape
Cambodia
Case studies
Michael B. Dwyer, Emily Polack and Sokbunthoeun So
2015
This article focuses on two cases where companies have sought to develop more socially benign––and, they believe, more profitable and sustainable––plantation concessions in a co...
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Human security and land rights in Cambodia
Cambodia
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Beban, Alice, Pou Sovachana
2014
The report of a project exploring human security and land rights in Cambodia. The project used a human security framework to address two questions: (1) What kind of insecurities...
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Economic land concessions profile: Land and Developing (Cambodia)
Cambodia
Advocacy and promotional materials
2011
A webpage list showing company name, address, director name and nationality, status of company registration with the Ministry of Commerce, legal papers and investment rights, EL...
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The failure of land dispute resolution mechanisms
Cambodia
Issue and policy briefs
Cambodian Center for Human Rights
2014
This brief considers the current state and practice of dispute resolution mechanisms in Cambodia, which have been formed to address land disputes and conflicts. The first sectio...
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Stolen land and stolen future : a report of land grabbing in Cambodia
Cambodia
Advocacy and promotional materials
Haakansson, Malene
2011
The focus of this report is land grabbing in Cambodia. it is based on APRODEV Agencies experience from many years of development work. The report documents how affected commu...
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What shall we do without our land? land grabs and resistance in rural Cambodia
Cambodia
Conference/workshop proceedings and presentations
Schneider, Alison Elizabeth
2011
Abstract: "Political dynamics of the global land grab are exemplified in Cambodia, where at least 27 forced evictions took place in 2009, affecting 23,000 people. Evictions of t...