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Notification of the Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand No. 103/2556 Re: Land Development for Business Operators in Industrial Estates
By virtue of Section 10 (4) of the Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand Act B.E. 2522 (1979), as amended by the Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand Act (No. 3) B.E. 2539 ...
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Indigenous knowledge and customary law in natural resource management: Experiences in Yunnan, China and Haruku, Indonesia
Lands and territories inhabited by most indigenous peoples across the globe are rich in natural resources. Through generations of experimentation and as custodians, the indigeno...
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Asean Climate change REDD+ and Indigenous Peoples
The term Indigenous Peoples is increasingly used by peoples in the ASEAN region who thus far have been called “hill tribes”, “native people” or “ethnic minorities”, and the vari...
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Threatened Lands, Threatened Lives: Human Rights Situation of Indigenous People in Cambodia
This report on the human rights situation of indigenous peoples of Cambodia was prepared mainly from the contributions of indigenous peoples human rights defenders (IPHRDs) and ...
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Struggles of indigenous women against destructive mining
Laos, South-central Laos, Savannakhet Province, Vilabouly District: Ethnic minority women affected by the Sepon Gold and Copper Mining Project
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AIPP Annual Report 2013: A YEAR OF ADVANCEMENT AND EXPANSION
AIPP has taken major steps forward in 2013 in strengthening the organization and in advancing the rights of indigenous women. As a result of the adoption of the AIPP Gender Poli...
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Impacts of 25 years of groundwater extraction on subsidence in the Mekong delta, Vietnam
Many major river deltas in the world are subsiding and consequently become increasingly vulnerable to flooding and storm surges, salinization and permanent inundation. For the M...
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Land Allocation for Social and Economic Development Project III (LASED III)
Land Allocation for Social and Economic Development – III (LASED III) will continue the support for the Royal Government of Cambodia’s (RGC) Commune Social Land Concession (SLC)...
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Land tenure data in Thailand
This article reviews land tenure Systems and land tenure data in Thailand in order to illustrate the importance of such information for policy-making. The article also discusses...
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Displacement and Dispossession: Forced Migration and Land Rights
This report, Displacement and Dispossession: Forced Migration and Land Rights in Burma focuses on land confiscation by Government forces, responsible for Burma’s most acute Hous...
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Concessions and leases in the Lao PDR: taking stock of land investments
This report presents the first nationwide analysis of land concessions and leases in the Lao PDR. The project is a joint effort between the Ministry of Natural Resources and Env...
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Land grabs and labour: Vietnamese workers on rubber plantations in southern Laos
Since the early 2000s the Lao government has dramatically increased the number of large-scale land concessions issued for agribusinesses. While studies have documented the socia...
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The territorial politics of land use planning in Laos
This paper examines land use planning processes in Laos, particularly how they are shaped and reshaped by key actors interests and strategies across scales and how they are clos...
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Making Possibilities out of the Impossible: Rural Migrant Workers Backdoor Economies and the Pitfall in Lao PDR
In recent years, rural Lao society has witnessed a fast transition away from traditional land-based livelihood. This tendency is shaped by a collusion between neoliberal Lao sta...
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The Geography of Security: Coercion, Comparative Advantage and Population Management Work in Contemporary Laos
In early 1988, Laoss Council of Ministers issued an instruction to the nations ministries, state committees, mass organizations, provinces and municipalities. Titled stepping up...
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Alternatives to Land Grabbing: Smallholder Engagement in Commodity Booms in Southeast Asia
Given the widespread smallholder impulse to engage in commodity booms in Southeast Asia and the potential for this engagement to offer a more inclusive development pathway than ...
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Changes in Understandings of Land in Laos: From State Sovereignty to Capital Mobilization
My discussion with Mrs Khamtanh is relevant for thinking about how peoples conceptualizations of land have changed in Laos, not only between non-communist and communist periods,...
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Forest-Land Commons in Laos in the Twenty-First Century: Agrarian Capitalism and the Non-Commodified Subsistence Guarantee
Over the last two decades, a broad alliance of domestic and international actors in the Lao PDR have devised policy interventions on the issue of strengthening customary tenure....
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Annual Country Reviews 2018-19 [Mekong Land Research Forum]
The Annual Country Reviews reflect upon current land issues in the Mekong Region, and has been produced for researchers, practitioners and policy advocates operating in the fiel...
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Turning Land into Capital for Whom? Crises and Alternatives of Land Commodification in Laos
On August 3rd, 2017, the Central Committee of the Lao Peoples Revolutionary Party (hereafter, the Party) the only legally permitted political party and the dominant political i...