3rd Mekong Regional Land Forum 2021: Reflections from Master’s Students at Chiang Mai University

Document type:
Briefing Note

Date of publication:
June 2020

Author:
Daniel Hayward

Abstract:
On 26-27 May 2021, the 3rd Mekong Land Forum was held online, hosted by Mekong Regional Land Governance (MRLG). The Forum provided in-depth discussion and debate into land tenure security and community resource management, focused through the two main workstreams of MRLG, namely Customary Tenure and Responsible Agricultural Investment. Each day of the Forum was dedicated to one of these workstreams, bringing together reform actors, community leaders and researchers.

Under funding from MRLG, the Mekong Land Research Forum, housed at the Research Centre for Social Science and Sustainable Development (RCSD), supports training on land at Chiang Mai University (CMU) in Thailand. This includes a Focus on Land Relations through the MA in Social Science (Development Studies). We asked five first-year students from Myanmar to give some reflections on the Forum and how it contributes to their studies.