Land grabbing has transformed rural environments across the global South, generating resistance or political reactions “from below”. In authoritarian countries like Laos, where resource investments are coercively developed and insulated from political dissent, resistance appears absent at first g...
Miles, K.-L.
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Suhardiman, Diana
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Dwyer, M.B.
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[State spaces of resistance: industrial tree plantations and the struggle for land in Laos]
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State spaces of resistance: industrial tree plantations and the struggle for land in Laos
This paper investigates the spatial dimension of power relations and the shaping of local alliances through a hydropower development project in Nepal. It provides a grass-roots illustration on the role of space in shaping and reshaping power relations, and how it manifests in the formation of loc...
Suhardiman, Diana
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Karki, Emma
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[Spatial politics and local alliances shaping Nepal hydropower]
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Spatial politics and local alliances shaping Nepal hydropower
Land tenure, or access and rights to land, is essential to sustain people’s livelihoods. This paper looks at how farm households perceive land tenure (in)security in relation to food (in)security, and how these perceptions evolve throughout different policy periods in Laos. The paper highlights t...
Keovilignavong, Oulavanh
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Suhardiman, Diana
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[Linking land tenure security with food security: unpacking farm households’ perceptions and strategies in the rural uplands of Laos]
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Linking land tenure security with food security: unpacking farm households’ perceptions and strategies in the rural uplands of Laos
Following the National League for Democracy’s landslide victory in the 2015 national election, Myanmar embarked on a series of legal and political transitions. This paper highlights parallel processes alongside such transitions. Linking land governance with the ongoing peace processes, and taking...
Suhardiman, Diana
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Bright, J.
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Palmano, C.
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[The politics of legal pluralism in the shaping of spatial power in Myanmar’s land governance]
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The politics of legal pluralism in the shaping of spatial power in Myanmar’s land governance
Canal irrigation and the way it has been managed continue to be at the central stage of irrigation development debates. This article looks at Irrigation Management Transfer policy processes in the seven interconnected irrigation systems in Kulon Progo district, Yogyakarta province, Indonesia. It ...
Suhardiman, Diana
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[Irrigation management transfer and the shaping of irrigation realities in Indonesia: from means to empower farmers to a tool to transfer rent seeking?]
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Irrigation management transfer and the shaping of irrigation realities in Indonesia: from means to empower farmers to a tool to transfer rent seeking?
Groundwater use for agriculture has the potential to improve rural households’ income and reduce poverty, but the linkages are not always straightforward. Taking Laos as a case study, this article illustrates how differential access to water, land, and capital shape farmers’ livelihood strategies...
Suhardiman, Diana
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Pavelic, Paul
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Keovilignavong, Oulavanh
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Giordano, Mark
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[Putting farmers’ strategies in the center of agricultural groundwater use in the Vientiane Plain, Laos]
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Putting farmers’ strategies in the center of agricultural groundwater use in the Vientiane Plain, Laos