• Chinese-owned banana plantations fueling exploitation in Myanmar
    • The Irrawaddy
    • 23 November 2021

    Landowners leasing their land to Chinese-run plantations are aware of the many drawbacks associated with banana farming, but still rent out their land, or are sometimes deceived into doing so, because of the limited market for traditional crops as well as the high rents they receive.

  • “Conflict rubber” and land rights in southeastern Myanmar
    • MRLG
    • 30 July 2020

    After decades of war, in northern Tanintharyi Region, Myanmar, rubber expansion is further aggravating tenure security and reviving historical grievances between Mon and Karen communities, ultimately undermining prospects for peacebuilding and security.

  • Privatisation 'wave' hurts poor as pandemic heightens risks
    • Reuters
    • 14 July 2020

    A push to privatise land and other resources in countries from Ukraine to Papua New Guinea is hurting indigenous people and the rural poor, while increasing the risks linked to climate change.

  • Mandalay legislator seeks inspections of farmland for foreign renters
    • Myanmar Times
    • 06 February 2020

    A regional legislator of Myanmar wants the regional government to investigate reports of farmland being illegally rented to foreigners, which could affect food security. She said that foreign companies are using local proxy firms to illegally lease and farm land.

  • Land grabbing as an internationally wrongful act
    • DA
    • 21 October 2019

    Displacement Solutions has just published a major 184-page legal report on the land grabbing in Myanmar, including for agriculture, and how these processes constitute internationally wrongful acts.

  • Respect and protect the Mekong people’s rights to land and resources: A call for support
    • Mekong Solidarity
    • 11 September 2019

    Threats of and actual displacements of rural communities in the Mekong have been on the rise amid increasing land deals for corporate plantations, mining, logging, biofuels, food crops for exports.

  • RCEP trade deal will intensify land grabbing in Asia
    • GRAIN
    • 15 July 2019

    RCEP will not just change rules on the export and import of goods and services; it will change how governments decide on rights to land and who has access to it.

  • Five from China charged over illegal banana plantation in Myanmar protected forest
    • Radio Free Asia
    • 20 May 2019

    China-backed banana tissue-culture plantations, banned in Laos and Thailand, began popping up in Myanmar about 12 years ago. A report issued earlier this year by Land Security and Environmental Conservation Network indicated that that there are more than 100,000 acres of banana plantations in Kachin state.

  • Nowhere to go: Myanmar farmers under siege from land law
    • Al Jazeera
    • 03 April 2019

    The Myanmar government has tightened a law on so-called 'vacant, fallow and virgin' land, and farmers are at risk.

  • Myanmar land reform: Calls for new law to be scrapped
    • Al Jazeera
    • 14 Mar 2019

    Rights groups are calling on Myanmar's government to scrap a new land reform law they fear could leave millions of people with nowhere to call home.

  • One giant land grab
    • Frontier
    • 12 Mar 2019

    Myanmar's new land law amendment has its roots in a British colonial notion of “wasteland” that consciously undermines customary land claims of highland communities to the benefit of foreign investors and tax collectors.

  • Myanmar land ownership law could displace millions of farmers
    • DW
    • 01 Mar 2019

    Under a land reformation act, millions of farmers across Myanmar could be forced from land they have tilled for generations. In an open letter, a national grassroots coalition, called for the government to "abolish" the law and "enact a federal law that safeguards people's integrity, their lives and livelihoods."

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