This note seeks to contribute to the ongoing debates around the revision of Myanmar’s 2012 Farmland Law.
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Aquaculture is more profitable for fish farmers than crop farming.
In this research highlight, we present analysis of agricultural land use, distribution, access, tenure, land markets, and historical patterns of ownership and disposal.
This brief explores recent developments in Ghana that lend insight into the drivers of mechanization and the appropriate role of government policy in supporting this transition.
Armed conflict and prolonged drought has put about 20 million people at risk.
This brief focuses on the characteristics of off-farm employment in agriculture and aquaculture clusters, and on gendered differences in employment opportunities and wage rates.
Rural-urban migration has increased dramatically since 2010 in the area around Myanmar’s largest commercial center, Yangon, where it represents a far more important migration flow than international migration.
Myanmar has one of the least developed financial systemsin the world and poor access to credit is widely believed tobe a major constraint to investment and productivityimprovements in agriculture.
Recent evidence suggests that the mechanization of agriculture is proceeding rapidly in areas of Myanmar close to the country’s major city, Yangon, as farmers - driven by the need to remain profitable in the face of labor shortages and rising wage
The study focuses on Myanmar’s Ayeyarwady delta.
This research highlight is the first in a series of publications designed to summarize and rapidly disseminate key research findings generated by the Food Security Policy Project (FSP) in Myanmar1.
Effects of El Niño on domestic production are already apparent in many regions of the world. Policy actions are needed to ensure adequate food supply and food mobility from surplus to deficit regions
Fish farming (aquaculture) is important to Myanmar’s food security and is developing and transforming quickly.
The world’s developing countries host the overwhelming majority of refugees from all conflict and disaster areas.
Swaziland as a developing middle income country has continuously sought to create an enabling environment for the development of the agricultural sector.
Legal empowerment of women can help to strengthen their claims to land
The assumption underlying this hypothesis is that farmers lack the knowledge, resources, or both to adequately prevent, anticipate, prepare for, cope with, and recover from shocks.
One and a half billion people still live in fragile, conflict affected areas. People in these countries are about twice as likely to be malnourished and to die during infancy as people in other developing countries.