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Land Transparency Study: Synthesis Report
Viet Nam
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
The World Bank
2014
This report presents the results of a novel study on land transparency in Vietnam; a study that focuses on the actual provision of information related to land. This study was pr...
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Land Law, Land Rights, and Land Reform in Vietnam: A Deeper Look into “Land Grabbing” for Public and Private Development
Viet Nam
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Kaitlin Hansen
2013
As Vietnam continues to search for its ideal balance between Communist control and a market-led economy, land rights emerge at the forefront of the discussion concerning the ten...
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Conversion of land use in Vietnam through a political economy lens
Viet Nam
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Andrew Wells-Dang , Pham Quang Tu, Adam Burke
2016
This article applies a political economy approach to processes of agricultural land conversion through analysis of the interests and incentives of key actors within and outside ...
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Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam
Issue and policy briefs
United Nations Statistics Division
2016
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Cambodia: Land in conflict, an overview of the land situation
Cambodia
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR)
2013
Conflict over land, combined with the systematic violation of land rights, is one of the most prominent human rights problems faced by Cambodians. The root of this problem can b...
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The Annual Country Reviews 2017-18
Cambodia, China, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam
Issue and policy briefs
Luck Bounmixay, Kevin Woods, Dr. Chusak Wittayapak, Phan Trung Hien
2017
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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Community tenure rights and REDD+: a review of the Oddar Meanchey community forestry REDD+ project in Cambodia
Cambodia
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Yeang Donal
2012
Tenure rights over land, forest, and carbon have become a contentious issue within REDD+ implementation across the tropics because local communities could be excluded from REDD+...
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A new urban landscape in East-Southeast Asia, 2000-2010
Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
A Schneider, C M Mertes, A J Tatem, B Tan, D Sulla-Menashe, S J...
2015
East–Southeast Asia is currently one of the fastest urbanizing regions in the world, with countries such as China climbing from 20 to 50% urbanized in just a few decades. By 205...
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Land-taking disputes in East Asia: A comparative analysis and implications for Vietnam
Cambodia, Viet Nam
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
John Gillespie, Fu Hualing, Phạm Duy Nghĩa
2014
This report provides comparative insights into land-taking disputes in three East Asian countries—China, Indonesia, and Cambodia—that are relevant to Vietnamese conditions. It i...
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Compulsory land acquisition and voluntary land conversion in Vietnam
Viet Nam
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
The World Bank
2011
The report provides recommendations on improving land policies to ensure the efficiency of their practical implementation and to target them at both economic development and soc...
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Struggling against excuses: winning back land in Cambodia
Cambodia
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Laura Schoenberger
2017
This paper focuses on one community in Cambodia that won back land from a large land deal by grabbing onto the rupture in property relations initiated by a one-year land titling...
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From land grab to agrarian transition? Hybrid trajectories of accumulation and environmental change on the Cambodia–Vietnam border
Cambodia, Viet Nam
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Timothy Gorman, Alice Beban
2017
This paper explores the divergent processes of agrarian transition in Cambodia and Vietnam and the ways in which they intersect through flows across the border, arguing that it ...
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Inside and outside the maps: mutual accommodation and forest destruction in Cambodia
Cambodia
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Courtney Work , Ratha Thuon
2017
The paper focuses on how climate change mitigation policies and economic land and mining concessions in Prey Lang, Cambodia, accommodate and facilitate each other physically, di...
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The Political Economy of Land Governance in Myanmar
Myanmar
Analysis, discussion papers, and blogs
Natalia Scurrah, Kevin Woods, Philip Hirsch
2015
This country report commences with a brief identification of the political-economic context that sets the parameters for existing land governance and for reform in Myanmar. It ...
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Mekong Region Customary Tenure Workshop
Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Viet Nam
Conference/workshop proceedings and presentations
Mekong Region Land Governance
20177
The Mekong Region Land Governance (MRLG) project and the Forestry Department of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation (MONREC) co-hosted the “Mekong R...
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Cambodia: Land in conflict, an overview of the land situation
Cambodia
Advocacy and promotional materials
Cambodian Center for Human Rights
2013
In light of the increasingly volatile nature of the land conflict in Cambodia, this report aims to describe the sources, forms and impact of the conflict throughout the country....
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Bankrolling India’s dirty dozen
Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand
Analysis, discussion papers, and blogs
Dustin Roasa
2016
An analysis paper by Dustin Hoasa on the World Bank Group's lending practices, part 2 in Inclusive Development International (IDI)'s 'Outsourcing Development' series. Published ...
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Trying to follow the Money: Possibilities and limits of investor transparency in Southeast Asia’s rush for “available” land
Cambodia, China, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam
Analysis, discussion papers, and blogs
Michael B. Dwyer
2015
This study uses publicly available financial and spatial data to examine the geography of land-intensive investment in Southeast Asia, and to identify the limits imposed by pro...
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Land Rights Matter! Anchors to Reduce Land Grabbing, Dispossession and Displacement
Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, Viet Nam
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Professor Andreas Neef, Caroline Kruckow, Maike Lukow
2016
A comparative study of land rights systems in Southeast Asia and the potential of national and international legal frameworks and guidelines.
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Land tenure security and poverty reduction
Cambodia
Advocacy and promotional materials
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
2012
"Land is fundamental to the lives of poor rural people. It is a source of food, shelter, income and social identity. Secure access to land reduces vulnerability to hunger and po...