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  1. Library Resource
    Comparing investments in the Lao Tea Sector: Concessions, contracts, and outcomes for smallholder farmers
    Reports & Research
    January, 2023
    Laos

    Most tea in Laos is produced by smallholder farmers, who benefit from highly suitable growing conditions and strong demand for sought-after varieties from the vast Chinese market. However, the sector faces many challenges to achieve its full potential. A key barrier in the northern provinces has been the tendency towards monopsony trade concessions, in which the production of a whole district can be under exclusive control of one buyer.

  2. Library Resource
    Agricultural investment at the crossroads in Cambodia Cover photo

    Towards inclusion of smallholder farmers?

    Reports & Research
    August, 2022
    Cambodia

    Agricultural investment at the crossroads in Cambodia: Towards inclusion of smallholder farmers?

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    April, 2019
    Laos

    This policy brief was developed in order to enable a meaningful engagement and policy dialogue with government institutions and other relevant stakeholders about challenges and opportunities related to the recognition of customary tenure in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic. Customary tenure is understood to be the local rules, institutions and practices governing land, fisheries and forests that have, over time and use, gained social legitimacy and become embedded in the fabric of a society.

  4. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    June, 2018
    China, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam

    The forum was co-hosted by the Mekong Region Land Governance Project and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Co-Conveners of the programme includes the Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), University of Bern, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für International Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), the Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development (RCSD) and the Independent Mediation Group (IMG). The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg supported the Forum.

  5. Library Resource
    LAND TENURE IN MEKONG FOREST LANDSCAPES

    Advancing the Recognition of Customary Rights and Responsible Investment Practices

    Reports & Research
    Conference Papers & Reports
    September, 2021
    Southern Asia

    The Summary Report of the 3rd Mekong Regional Land Forum provides a comprehensive review of the key messages from the event including a synthesis of keynote speeches, key take-aways, the links to all presentations and additional documentation.

     

  6. Library Resource
    Land conflicts between Economic Land Concessions and smallholder farmers in Bousra commune (Cambodia
    Reports & Research
    January, 2020
    Cambodia

    In 2007-8, the Cambodian government granted Economic Land Concessions (ELC) to two rubber companies, namely Socfin-KCD and Dak Lak Mondulkiri Aphivath in Bousra commune, Mondulkiri province. Through a comparative approach, the Case study examines the impact of these rubber concessions on local land tenure systems. It examines how each company took into consideration the land claims of affected people and communities, and the effectiveness of the conflict resolution approach.

  7. Library Resource

    Case study, Mekong Region Land Governance

    Reports & Research
    November, 2020
    China, Myanmar

    In the last decade, Myanmar’s Kachin State has seen a boom in tissue-culture banana plantations driven by cross-border Chinese investors. This Case Study compiles field research and publicly available knowledge about the scale of the production and its economic, social and environmental consequences. The study provides a detailed snapshot of the investment model and key actors in Kachin State, the methods of land access, landscape outcomes, and experiences of plantation workers.

  8. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    August, 2020
    Myanmar

    This Case Study looks at the implementation of the Vacant, Fallow and Virgin Lands Management Law (VFV Law) in seven villages in Sagaing Region, to assess the practices on the ground and how the law impacts the land tenure security of smallholder farmers.

  9. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    October, 2015
    Myanmar, South-Eastern Asia

    This report presents a political-economic analysis of
    land governance at the regional level, focusing on the
    Mekong Region

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