Access mapping highlights risks from land reform in upland Myanmar
| Autor: | Martin Rudbeck Jepsen, U. Martin Persson, Laura Kmoch, Matilda Palm |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Land access swidden farming 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Natural resource economics Geography Planning and Development 0211 other engineering and technologies Subsistence agriculture 021107 urban & regional planning 02 engineering and technology Myanmar Management Monitoring Policy and Law Livelihood 01 natural sciences environmental income land-use practices customary tenure Business Land reform Livelihoods 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Earth-Surface Processes |
| Zdroj: | Kmoch, L, Palm, M, Persson, U M & Jepsen, M R 2021, ' Access mapping highlights risks from land reform in upland Myanmar ', Journal of Land Use Science, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 34-54 . https://doi.org/10.1080/1747423X.2020.1836053 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/1747423X.2020.1836053 |
| Popis: | Secure land access is vital for Myanmar’s upland households, who rely on crops and forests to meet their subsistence needs. But recent land reforms threaten to undermine customary tenure and land-use practices in Myanmar. This paper combines income accounting methods with access theory to assess how new legislation may affect four Chin communities in the country’s north-west. Our assessment of 94 households’ land-access mechanisms and economic benefits from different types of land reveals existing land-access inequalities among Chin households and demonstrates communities’ continued dependence on environmental resources, especially those from swidden fields, home gardens and forests. A majority of households would lose all of their land-derived income, if they were denied access to communities’ customarily governed land, e.g., under the Vacant, Fallow and Virgin Land Management Law. Policy stakeholders should therefore intervene, to alleviate land-access inequalities among Chin households and to direct Myanmar’s land-system dynamics onto more just development trajectories. |
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