the political ecology of rubber production in myanmar:an
The Political Ecology of Rubber Production in Myanmar: An
The Political Ecology of Rubber Production in Myanmar: An Overview C o n s u l t a n t Y a n g o n , M y a n m a r D e c e m b e r 2 0 1 2 Kevin Woods Over the past decade the Myanmar government has increasingly promoted industrial agricultural production in the country, especially for rubber. With the lead up to the
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The Political Ecology of Rubber Production in Myanmar: An
"Myanmar central government and military authorities have long supported rubber production as a strategic industrial agricultural crop for export to earn foreign exchange. The history of rubber cultivation is important to consider in order to better understand the newly emerging political economy of rubber in the country during the current transition period.
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Rubber production in Tanintharyi Region
This study examines how rubber production in Myanmar is governed, especially the socio-ecological dynamics of varying forms of production: smallholding, contract farming and large-scale estate ...
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Greening rubber? Political ecologies of plantation
The most common fruit crops that have been grown in Thailand are guava, gnetum, long kong, salacca, mangosteen, durian, and levistona, etc., and (3) the rubber-timber species system, normally ...
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Sector specific resources – Myanmar Economy Watch
The Political Ecology of Rubber Production in Myanmar: An Overview (Woods 2012): A report outlining the political ecology of rubber production in Myanmar, including analysis of political economy and the geography of rubber development.
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Greening rubber? Political ecologies of plantation
Political ecology has been defined as a field that “combines the concerns of ecology and a broadly defined political economy” (Blaikie and Brookfield, 1987, 17) or an analysis of “the complex relations between Nature and Society through careful analysis of social forms of access and control over resources—with all their implications for environmental health and sustainable livelihoods” (Watts and Peet, 2010, 3).
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Scaling green rubber cultivation in Southwest China—An
Fig. 2 is an application of this perspective to the case of rubber in Southwest China (in a simplified presentation). PROMIS helps unravel different dimensions of the current rubber cultivation system that keep it from becoming more sustainable and that affect the scaling of technologies, practices, and policies.
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Kevin M. Woods, PhD — Publications
The Political Economy of Land Governance in . Myanmar. University of Sydney, funding by SDC and GIZ. Woods, K. 2015. Expansion of Agribusiness in Myanmar: Driver of deforestation, conversion timber and land conflicts in Myanmar. Forest Trends, Washington. DC. [25 citations] Woods, K. 2013. Timber Trade Actors and Flows: A political economy of timber trade in
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Policies, Political-Economy, and Swidden in Southeast Asia
The ways in which national policies and development practices have affected swiddeners and swidden cultivation, and the ways swiddeners have responded or contributed to these political economic transitions of the last half-century, need to be understood in the context of broader political–economic and political–ecological transitions.
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Situation Analysis of southeastern Myanmar | MIMU
Situation Analysis of southeastern Myanmar. The Situation Analysis of southeastern Myanmar is a desk review prepared by MIMU and the Peace Support Fund to support programming, strategy and policy development across the peace, humanitarian and development sectors. While no single report can fully describe the enormous diversity across southeastern...
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The Political Ecology of Rubber Production in Myanmar: An
This report outlines the emerging political ecology of rubber production in Myanmar, with particular attention to the political economy and geography of rubber development taking root during Myanmar’s reform period.
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The Political Ecology
The Political Ecology of Rubber Production in Myanmar: An Overview. Kevin Woods. Consultant Yangon, Myanmar.Over the past decade the Myanmar government has increasingly promoted industrial agricultural production in the country, especially for rubber.
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Rubber production in Tanintharyi Region
"The Political Ecology of Rubber Production in Myanmar: An Overview", Yangon, 66p.Key points: 1) Smallholder rubber production in southern Myanmar has alleviated rural poverty, while large-scale plantation concessions in the north have led to land expropriation and limited livelihood
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political ecology insurgency and war natural resources Southeast Asia Myanmar.The political ecology of rubber production in Myanmar: an overview. K Woods. Global Witness, Yangon, Myanmar, 2012.
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The Political Ecology of Palm Oil Production
We apply the political ecology framework to analysis of the case of eco-activism.In Section 6, we apply the political ecology framework. to delve deep into the power disputes involved in the developmenttition from synthetic rubber and a declining price.
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Opium production in Myanmar
Opium production in Myanmar has historically been a major contributor to the country's gross domestic product (GDP). Myanmar is the world's second largest producer of opium after Afghanistan, producing some 25% of the world's opium
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Prospects for the Myanmar rubber sector: An analysis
As a result of recent political reforms, Myanmar has the opportunity to enact major policy changes to reinvigorate its agriculture sector.In this paper we examine the profitability of smallholder rubber production in Mon State utilizing data from the Mon State Rural
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I conclude that the debates over juridical knowledge-making practices from the political ecology perspective can contribute to improving them, and help understand the future of rivers in Turkey under the pressure of hydropower development.
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The 'birth' of political ecology
Examples of Early Political Ecology • Bernard Neitschmann sought to understand how the pressures of external market demand for sea resources among theImportance of understanding relations of production, not only the forces of production (cultural ecology). Social relations of production
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Political Ecology in China and Laos | UC Berkeley College of Natural
Juliet is a political ecologist studying the power dynamics involved with the rubber production industry in China and in Laos. In the interview, Juliet explains how political ecology is useful as a lens to explore the interplay of government policy, industry, and conservation.
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