This case study shows some of the problems in the villages, explains the awareness raising work and gives recommendations for potential upcoming projects.
This report specifically details the differences between the newly promulgated Land Law and Forestry Law and their predecessor laws, the Land Law 2003 and the Forestry Law 2007, respectively, noting both their improvements and shortcomings.
Land registration is an essential process concerning ownership, possession, or other rights in land can be recorded to provide evidence of title, facilitate transactions and, prevent unlawful disposal.
Failure to comply with court verdicts resulted in delays in issuing titles. In some cases, although a court case had not taken place, new land titles were issued to another side or a third party
women have lost access to and control over land. In the matrilineal villages, women have lost private customary lowland paddy fields while in the patrilineal villages they have lost mostly fields in communal land areas that were used for subsistence agriculture.