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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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
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...
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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...
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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...
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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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Myanmar Jade and Gems Mining Licences 2017-2018
Jade and gems mining licence data aggregated by township based on MEITI 5th Report (fiscal year 2017/18) published licences annex data. It is based on all jade and gems mining l...
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Myanmar Pearl Cultivation Licences 2017-2018
Myanmar pearl cultivation licence data as geodata based on MEITI 5th Report (FY2017/18) annex (http://www.myanmareiti.org/files/uploads/license_information2017-2018.xlsx). It in...
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Building Capacities for Evolving Geospatial Needs in Myanmar, MIMU Symposium
The rapid expansion of geospatial technology has brought the need for new skills to be able to understand and apply the newly available tools – not just for GIS professionals bu...
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The 2014 Myanmar Population and Housing Census: Thematic Report on Mortality
This thematic report presents the status of mortality based on the 2014 Census. The analysis shows that Myanmar has recorded declines in childhood mortality in the last three de...
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Variegated borderlands governance in Dehong Dai-Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture along the China-Myanmar border
International borders and associated borderlands—especially as viewed at the national and international scales, and via regional and global-scale maps—are generally thought of a...
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Agro-Business Large Scale Land Acquisition in Myanmar: current situation and ways forward
This presentation summarizes an on-going research in Myanmar, carried out by renowned agricultural specialist U San Thein and a team of experts, with the support of MRLG. This r...
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Myanmar Library Survey
The Myanmar Library Survey is the first in-depth nationwide study of the country’s public libraries. Commissioned by The Asia Foundation in partnership with the Myanmar Book Aid...
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The Contested Areas of Myanmar: Subnational Conflict, Aid, and Development
While the current peace processes in Myanmar are a national endeavor, the broader international community has an important supporting role to play. To contribute to the ongoing ...
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Measuring Myanmar's Starting Point for the Sustainable Development Goals: SDG Baseline Indicator Report
To monitor and evaluate the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, reliable and accurate data that reflect the current situations of the country is indispensible. ...
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Destination Management Plan for the Inlay Lake Region -- Environmental Assessment
This report contains a summary of issues relating to sustainable management of environmental resources for Inlay Lake and its watershed, in the context of increasing pressures ...
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Destination Management Plan for the Inlay Lake Region 2014 - 2019
The Destination Management Plan (DMP) for the Inlay Lake Region is the result of extesive stakeholder consultations, interviews, focus group discussions, workshops and expert an...