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Sub decree no 201 on the reclassification from state public property to state private property
This sub-decree was issued by the Royal Government of Cambodia with the decision of reclassifying as state private land the lands of location including (1) the former 13 January...
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Decision on the introduction of the main layout using the Kep city land use master plan for 2030 vision
Urban planning and Land Management Committee of Kep province and the Kep City Planning and Urban Planning Committee have to plan to effectively implement the Land Use Plan and r...
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Land Law No. 45/2013/QH13
This Law prescribes the regime of land ownership, powers and responsibilities of the State in representing the entire-people owner of land and uniformly managing land, the regim...
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Special Economic Zones Thailand
This dataset was compiled with the Thailand Environment Institute in conjunction with CSOs within their existing network working on Special Economic Zone developments.
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Sub-decree No. 86 on cutting and reclassifying 588.4815 hectares of forest cover 2002 in Lumphat district and Ban Lung town, Ratanakiri province to be state private land for granting a collective ownership to Prau indigenous community and providing ownership rights over the land
Approximately 588.4815 hectares of land was cut out from forest cover 2002 in Lumphat district and Banlung town, Ratanakiri province, and reclassified as state private land for ...
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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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Baseline Data-set
The MIMU have been tracking more than 200 indicators from various sources and the dataset is available through their website.
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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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Decree of the President of the Lao People's Democratic Republic On the Promulgation of the Property Law
“Property” [in respect of any asset] means the total and definite right of the State, collectives, individuals, and private persons and entities over such asset in terms of poss...
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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...
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Introduction to Special Issue on "Land Governance in Laos"
In recent years there has been considerable controversy in the Lao Peoples Democratic Republic (Lao PDR or Laos) regarding decisions by the government to issue long-term land co...