Land grabbing in Myanmar Processes impacts and compensation issues in souther shan state

This research report is one of three reports conducted in 2018 by aspiring youth through Land Core Group’s (LCG’s) youth capacity development program on “Research and Advocacy related to Land Governance and Land Issues in Myanmar”. To enable them to conduct the research, the youth are provided training through a series of four sessions, on: (1) basic research concepts and proposal writing, (2) data collection methods, (3) data analysis, and (4) report and policy brief writing. This research report was completed by one of three teams of interns. It studies process and the causes of land grabbing, socio-economic situations of farmers before and after land grabbing, responses to the compensation, the restitution process between 2013-2018 announcements and the effectiveness of the compensation and restitution process.