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Forests and forestry in Myanmar: an overview of forestry laws, policies, and strategies
Myanmar
Archived web content
Kay Khine, Asian Forest Cooperation Organization (AFoCO)
2021
Myanmar possesses great variation in topography and climatic conditions, and six major forest types can be found in the country, ranging from mangrove forests in the coastal reg...
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Forestry in Myanmar 2020
Myanmar
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
The Forest Department and Ministry of Natural Resources and...
2020
The Forest Department released 2020 report, consists various contents with up-to-date information about institutional structure, forest resources base, rules and law and etc.
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Understanding timber flows and control in Cambodia in the Context of Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT)
Cambodia
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Technical Working Group on Forestry Reform, Global Forestry...
2014
The report of a study to improve the understanding of timber flows in Cambodia and to understand the roles of the government agencies involved in the control of the timber suppl...
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The context of REDD+ in Vietnam: Drivers, agents and institutions
Viet Nam
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Pham TT, Hoang TL, Nguyen DT, Dao TLC, Ngo HC and Pham VH
2019
Vietnam is acknowledged to be REDD+ pioneer country, having adopted REDD+ in 2009. This paper is an updated version of Vietnam’s REDD+ Country Profile which was first published ...
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Country Forest Note : Vietnam
Viet Nam
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
The World Bank
This Country Forest Note (CFN) provides an upstream analysis of the status of forests and of investments and policies relevant to the forest sector in Vietnam. It looks at fores...
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Thailand’s Community Forest Act: Analysis of the legal framework and recommendations
Thailand
Analysis, discussion papers, and blogs
RECOFTC
2021
Thailand is undergoing an important development in its forestry laws. When the Community Forest Act B.E. 2562 was passed in 2019, Thailand had for the first time an official umb...
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Assessment of the new Land Law and Forestry Law in Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Customary Tenure Rights over Land and Forests
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Tony Lamb , United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization, the...
2021
The report explains the differences between the new Land Law and Forestry Law and their predecessor laws (the Land Law 2003 and the Forestry Law 2007). Compare the new Land La...
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Shifting Cultivation in Myanmar’s REDD+ Development: A review of three REDD+ program documents
Myanmar
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Julia Fogerite
2018
This report provides a review of shifting cultivation across three Myanmar REDD+ programme documents. The initial background study on drivers of deforestation concluded that mor...
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Timber industry faces challenges in the voluntary partnership agreement process in forest governance
Myanmar
Archived web content
Su Phyo Win
The lack of transparency and accountability together with the issues of corruption, an overwhelming wood demand and land rights are still posing challenges for the timber indust...
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Myanmar: All about the Myanmar FLEGT process
Myanmar
Archived web content
Forest cover in Myanmar is approximately 29 million hectares or about 43% of its national territory. Of this area, about 31% is managed by the State. According to the Food and A...
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Forestry magazine No 62 on the achievement for the first half of 2020 of forestry administration
Cambodia
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Forestry Administration
2020
This magazine showcases the achievement of the Forestry Administration in the first semester of 2020. The content in this magazine consists of the update...
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Forest Change in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) An Overview of Negative and Positive Drivers
Cambodia, China, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Yurdi Yasmi, Patrick Durst, Rehan Ul Haq, & Jeremy Broadhead
2017
Forests in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) have been undergoing change in the last 25 years due to various factors. Positive and negative changes occur at the same time. Ther...
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National Forest Programme 2010-2029
Cambodia
Issue and policy briefs
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
2010
The goal of the National Forest Programme is to establish a policy framework and strategy for sustainable management of the country’s valuable forest resources. This document, w...
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Personal Income Tax. Thailand
Thailand
Guidelines, instruction manuals, handbooks
The Revenue Department of Thailand
2014
Information about Personal Income Tax in Thailand.
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Briefing: Linking FLEGT and REDD+
Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Proforest, European Forest Institute, EU Officials
2014
This briefing discusses the overlaps and opportunities for collaboration between the FLEGT and REDD+ initiatives. It identifies the six key areas in which FLEGT and REDD+ can su...
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Making FLEGT and REDD+ Work Together - EU REDD Facility Insights and Activities (2013-2017)
Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
This paper provides an overview of the EU REDD Facility's activities and achievements under its 2013-2017 strategy. It summarizes key insights that have emerged from the Facilit...
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Serial Offender: Vietnam’s continued imports of illegal Cambodian timber
Cambodia, Viet Nam
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Environmental Investigation Agency
2018
This report details how investigators found that while the nature of the illicit trade had changed, there are still huge volumes of illegally logged and traded Cambodian timber ...
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Discussions on Linkages between REDD+ and FLEGT in Lao PDR
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Conference/workshop proceedings and presentations
2017
This is the first technical meeting between key FLEGT and REDD+ stakeholders in Lao PDR to understand and brainstorm on potential practical synergies between the two initiatives...
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Evaluation of the EU FLEGT Action Plan (Forest Law Enforcement Governance and Trade) 2003-2014: Final Report Volume 2 -- Annexes
Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
TEREA, S-FOR-S, Topperspective
2016
This document contains the annexes to Volume 2 of the Evaluation of the EU FLEGT Action Plan. The annexes include: the terms of reference of the evaluation, the organizations an...
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Overview on Lao-EU FLEGT VPA Process
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Conference/workshop proceedings and presentations
Heiko Woerner
Presentation slides by Heiko Woerner, Chief Technical Adviser GIZ, Support to the Lao-EU FLEGT Process (ProFLEGT)