{"id":3586,"date":"2015-10-09T11:55:51","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T05:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/burmesewomensunion.org\/?p=3586"},"modified":"2023-11-06T11:57:43","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T05:27:43","slug":"recommendations-for-implementation-of-pro-poor-land-policy-and-land-law-in-myanmar-national-data-and-regional-practices-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/burmesewomensunion.org\/?p=3586","title":{"rendered":"Recommendations for Implementation of Pro-Poor Land Policy and Land Law in Myanmar: National Data and Regional Practices October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Executive Summary &amp; Key Recommendations<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Myanmar is undergoing a major transition, opening space for significant change for the first time in decades. Secure land tenure for smallholder farmers and rural communities is essential in a heavily agrarian nation like Myanmar, where millions in the rural population \u2013 nearly 70% of the country \u2013 depend on agriculture for their livelihoods. Despite some updates to the legal framework, such as the 2012 <i>Farmland Law <\/i>and <i>Vacant, Fallow, and Virgin Land Law<\/i>, millions of Myanmar farmers remain vulnerable with insecure land tenure due to a complex and opaque set of land laws, unresolved historical land grievances, and widespread landlessness.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/burmesewomensunion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Women\u2019s_Land_Rights2.pdf\" class=\"sc-button sc-button-default\" target=\"_blank\"><span>Download<\/span><\/a>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Executive Summary &amp; Key Recommendations\u00a0 Myanmar is undergoing a major transition, opening space for significant change for the first time in decades. Secure land tenure for smallholder farmers and rural communities is essential in a heavily agrarian nation like Myanmar, where millions in the rural population \u2013 nearly 70% of the country \u2013 depend on<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/burmesewomensunion.org\/?p=3586\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3588,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3586","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-other-documents"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/burmesewomensunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/burmesewomensunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/burmesewomensunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burmesewomensunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burmesewomensunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3586"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/burmesewomensunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4592,"href":"https:\/\/burmesewomensunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3586\/revisions\/4592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burmesewomensunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/burmesewomensunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burmesewomensunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burmesewomensunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}