Land-specialised groups and forums with a Burma/Myanmar focus
Websites/Multiple Documents
Description:
152 documents (as of March 2017) on land and Burma/Myanmar
Source/publisher:
Land Portal
Date of entry/update:
2017-03-14
Grouping:
Websites/Multiple Documents
Language:
English, Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
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Description:
"MYLAFF - a forum for sharing information about land, rural livelihoods, forests, fisheries, agribusiness investment and natural resource management in Myanmar...
The main URL given here is the public entry to MYLAFF. For access to more documents, users have to sign up to MYLAFF...
*Members of the forum include government officials, staff of donor agencies and NGOs, project experts, academics and business people...
*We aim to support rural development in the Republic of the Union of Myanmar through providing stakeholders and decision-makers with a space for communication and better access to information and analysis...
*Our online document repository is at www.mylaff.org, where you can find a wide variety of documents in both English and Myanmar language, alongside others...Under Farming Systems, MYLAFF has a section on shifting cultivation...
*More information is available in the FAQ, which is available here: http://www.mylaff.org/static/MyLAFF_FAQ.pdf..."
Source/publisher:
MYLAFF
Date of entry/update:
2015-03-03
Grouping:
Websites/Multiple Documents
Category:
Reviews/bibliographies/lists on swidden/shifting cultivation, Shifting ("swidden", "jhum", "taungya", "kaingin") cultivation - regional and global, Shifting ("swidden", "jhum", "taungya") cultivation - Burma/Myanmar, Land-specialised groups and forums with a Burma/Myanmar focus, Forest Tenure (general), Roots and Resources - global and regional experience and analysis, Land confiscation for military, commercial and other purposes, Sustainable agriculture - Burma/Myanmar
Language:
English, Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
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Individual Documents
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''Hundreds of civil society organizations are mobilizing in opposition to the government’s implementation of the VFV Land Law due to the expectation that the law will facilitate land grabbing and land conflict. One statement explains that the VFV Land Management Central Committee’s notification of 30 October 2018 requires that anyone using the VFV land register receives permission to continue using the land.2 This requirement creates serious uncertainties for a large portion of Myanmar’s population. If they do register their land, they will lose their historical and traditional rights to it, instead receiving a 30-year use permit. If they do not register the land, they risk eviction or penalties of imprisonment for two years and/or a 500,000 kyats fine. The government has reportedly estimated that 45 million acres qualify as VFV land, 82% of which is in the ethnic nationality states, threatening the livelihoods and survival of an unknown number of persons throughout the country.3
CSOs have pointed out the ways that the VFV Land Law will threaten pre-existing land tenure, will facilitate land grabbing, and will cause land conflicts to increase.4 Three hundred and forty-six organizations signed onto a statement saying, “Instead of accepting and enacting this law, the fundamental priority must instead be to effectively recognize customary practices and communal land rights, and to safeguard the interest of the peoples depending on land.”5 This statement and a recent statement by internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Kachin and northern Shan States point out that the law will negatively affect persons displaced by conflict, who already face challenges in holding on to their ancestral lands...''
Jason Gelbort
Source/publisher:
Transnational Institute (TNI)
Date of publication:
2018-12-10
Date of entry/update:
2019-01-23
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Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Law and policy on land in Burma/Myanmar, Peace processes, ceasefires and ceasefire talks (websites, documents, reports and studies), Land-specialised groups and forums with a Burma/Myanmar focus, TNI-BCN Project on Ethnic Conflict in Burma
Language:
English, Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
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''ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေး တိုးတက်ဖြစ်ထွန်းမှုကို အထောက်အကူပြုရန်အတွက် လူထုလူတန်းစားများ၏ မြေ ယာရပိုင်ခွင့်အခွင့်အရေးများကို မဖြစ်မနေအကာအကွယ်ပေးရမည်။
မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော်အစိုးရ၏ မြေယာမူဝါဒအပေါ် ချဉ်းကပ်မှုပုံစံသည် မြေယာပဋိပက္ခများ တိုးပွားလာ စေပြီး တရားဝင်ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေး စေ့စပ်ညှိနှိုင်းရာ၌ လက်ရှိကြုံတွေ့ရလျက်ရှိသည့် စိန်ခေါ်မှုများကို ပိုမို ဖိတ်ခေါ်လျက်ရှိသည်။ အရပ်ဖက်လူမှုအဖွဲ့အ စည်းများကလည်း လတ်တလောပြင်ဆင်ခဲ့သည့် မြေလွတ်၊ မြေလပ်နှင့် မြေရိုင်းစီမံခန့်ခွဲရေးဥပဒေ (VFV မြေယာဥပဒေ)ကို အကောင်အထည်ဖော်ခြင်းဖြင့် ကျေးလက်နေလူထုလူတန်းစားများကို ၎င်းတို့၏ ဘိုးဘွားပိုင်နယ်မြေများမှ နေရပ်စွန့်ခွာတိမ်းရှောင်ရစေပြီး ဓလေ့ထုံးတမ်းဆိုင်ရာ မြေယာ ရပိုင်ခွင့်အခွင့်အရေးများ ချိနှဲ့အားနည်းသွားစေရန် တွန်းအားပေးလိမ့်မည်ဟူသည့် ကြောင်းကျိုးဆီ လျော်သည့် စိုးရိမ်ပူပန်မှုပေါ်အခြေခံ၍ အကောင်အထည်ဖော်မှုကို အပြင်းအထန်ကန့်ကွက်လျက် ရှိသည်။ 1 နေပြည်တော်၏ ဥပဒေပြုပြင်ပြောင်းလဲမှုသည် လက်ရှိငြိမ်းချမ်းရေးလုပ်ငန်းစဉ်၏ ရည် မှန်းချက်နှင့် တစ်နိုင်ငံလုံးအပစ်အခတ်ရပ်စဲရေးသဘောတူစာချုပ်(NCA)ပါ ကတိကဝတ်များနှင့် ဆန့်ကျင်သွေဖယ်လျက်ရှိကြောင်း ဤအချက်က သက်သေပြလျက်ရှိသည်။ ထို့အပြင် NCA ၌ သ ဘောတူလက်မှတ် ရေးထိုးထားခြင်းမရှိသေးသည့် နယ်မြေဒေသပေါင်းများစွာလည်း ကျန်ရှိနေဆဲ ဖြစ်သည်။ ထို့ကြောင့် အစိုးရတစ်ရပ်အနေဖြင့် အပြောင်းအလဲဆီသို့ ဦးတည်ချဉ်းကပ်ရာ၌ မြေယာ ရပိုင်ခွင့် အခွင့်အရေးများကို ကာကွယ်စောင့်ရှောက်ပေးရန်နှင့် ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေးတိုးတက်ဖြစ်ထွန်းလာ စေမည့် ယုံကြည်မှုတိုးတက်ခိုင်မာလာအောင် တည်ဆောက်သွားရန် မဖြစ်မနေလိုအပ်ပါသည်။...''
Jason Gelbort
Source/publisher:
Transnational Institute (TNI)
Date of publication:
2019-01-07
Date of entry/update:
2019-01-21
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Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Law and policy on land in Burma/Myanmar, Peace processes, ceasefires and ceasefire talks (websites, documents, reports and studies), Land-specialised groups and forums with a Burma/Myanmar focus, TNI-BCN Project on Ethnic Conflict in Burma
Language:
Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ), English
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"KNU?s first land policy was ratified during KNU?s 9th Congress in 1974, based on the philosophy
that "farmers will not to transfer their farmlands to others". By the mid-2000s, the land policy had
become outdated, so in 2005 the Karen Agriculture Department (KAD) Chair, P?doh Thu Thay Kor,
revised and updated the policy with a new slogan "land to the native people". The revised policy
was approved by the KNU?s Executive Committee (EC) during the KNU?s 14th Congress on May 6,
2009. After a series of public consultations and seminars were conducted to amend and clarify
some points, the current edition was adopted in December 2015.
The Kawthoolei Land Policy (KLP) addresses land tenure rights in a manner that promotes an
enduring peace in the Karen Lands (Kawthoolei) grounded in social justice. It envisions recognition,
restitution, protection and support of the socially-legitimate tenure rights of all Karen peoples and
long-standing resident village communities, resulting in improved political and ecological governance
of tenure of land, forests, fisheries, water, and related natural resources. This policy aspires toward
greater self-determination in the context of a decentralized federal Union of Myanmar..."
Source/publisher:
KESAN
Date of publication:
2018-01-19
Date of entry/update:
2018-11-11
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Individual Documents
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