Myanmar has high levels of landlessness and an uneven distribution of land among landed households, despite an abundance of land per head of population relative to other countries in the region. Land is a central issue in the post-2016 policy landscape, and efforts to provide restitution for widespread land confiscations that occurred during the period of military rule forms a major pillar of the current government’s governance agenda. In this research highlight, we present research on agricultural land use, distribution, access, tenure, land markets, and historical patterns of ownership and disposal.
Aung Hein, Isabel Lambrecht, Kyaw Lwin & Ben Belton. Food Security Policy Project (FSPP). Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy. 2017
