Extended Synopses to Key Themes

Offering a conceptual frame through which to analyse land issues in the Mekong Region, all articles selected for the online resource have been tagged under twelve key themes. The resource provides an overview to each key theme, highlighting key reform issues, and points of current critique and debate. Further, most key themes carry an extended synopsis, looking more closely at how they are addressed through selected texts.

The extended synopses can be accessed through the titles below:

• Civil society and donor engagement in land issues (August 2021)

• Land zoning, planning, conversion and food security (July 2021)

• Marginalised people's land rights and access: ethnic minorities, the poor and women (June 2021)

• Land and the environment: pollution, deforestation, climate change, conservation zoning (May 2021)

• Urban land governance (August 2020)

• Gender and land (November 2019)

• Land distribution: concentration/dispersion; landlessness (October 2018)

• Agricultural modernisation: key ideas and debates relevant to land tenure security (August 2018)

• Land dispossession/land grabbing (June 2018)

• Agrarian change and land: Migration and labour (May 2018)

• Land policy and land law (December 2015; revised November 2020)

• Foreign direct investment and land access (December 2015; revised October 2020)

• Land rights recognition / formalization / titling / collective tenure (December 2015; revised May 2020)

• Dispute resolution and access to justice (December 2015; revised May 2020)