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Our Customary Lands: Community-Based Sustainable Natural Resource Management in Burma

In January 2016 the government adopted a National Land Use Policy, which included the recognition of customary land management practices. While this is a welcome fi rst step in the necessary integration of Burma’s customary land management systems with the national-level system, there is an urgent need for constitutional reform and devolution of land management powers prior to any such integration. This report by the Ethnic Community Development Forum (ECDF) presents how Burma’s diverse customary land management systems in seven ethnic communities are structured, and provides ideas for how these systems could be supported and potentially integrated into a future devolved federal national land management system. Customary land management systems have co-existed with the national land management system in Burma for centuries.

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Field Value
Document type Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Language of document
  • English
Topics Land
Geographic area (spatial range)
  • Myanmar
Copyright To be determined
Version / Edition 1.0
License Creative Commons Attribution
Author (corporate) ECDF
Publication date 2016
Keywords Kaw,Conflict,Taungya,Shifting Cultivation,Indigenous Knowledge,NRM,Ethnic Rights,Customary Tenure,Community and Customary Land
Date uploaded October 12, 2018, 10:35 (UTC)
Date modified May 19, 2021, 05:18 (UTC)