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Action for Access and Management Rights to Land and Natural Resources of Small Farmers in Northern Thailand

$670000.00

04/13 - 09/17

Completed

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General

Overall Objective: To contribute to the adoption of laws promoting equitable land distribution and natural resources management. Specific Objective: Increased capacity of small-scale farmers and their networks in northern Thailand to organize movements for and demand their rights to land and natural resources management. The action will support the strengthening of the civil society movement for land reform to be led by the Northern Land Reform Network (NLRN) and the People’s Movement for a Just Society (P-Move). They will engage stakeholders including the affected farmer communities, local administrative organizations (LAOs), independent public organizations, academics, the media and parliamentarians to be aware of the community rights to land and sustainable natural resources management, and call for policy implementation and relevant laws which will solve the land and natural resources access problem of small scale farmers in a comprehensive and sustainable manner. The permanent laws will also be necessary to mitigate the risk of the change of government as experienced currently.