Thailand has a long-standing continuity to its legal framework with a significant amount of its land held under private titles. This reflects the country’s unique position in mainland Southeast Asia, having never been formally colonised and without experiencing a socialist revolution. These factors contribute towards a predominance of smallholder farming, with few large-scale agricultural land investments found in the country.
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71,601,100
Urban population
50 %
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28 May 2023
Pinnapa Pruksapan, widow of murdered indigenous rights activist Porlajee Rakchongcharoen, has requested that the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) continue to protect her and her family, after the DSI said that they are not important witnesses in Porlajee’s murder trial and will no longer…
13 February 2023
Questions mount over the Xayaburi Dam’s changes to water and sediment flows as the river swallows farmers’ land.
Main photo: A fisherman drives his boat past dead trees that slid into the Mekong River during a riverbank collapse in August in Ban Huai Kho village in Thailand’s northeastern…
19 September 2022
Climate change strategy gives too much power to big corporations at the expense of local communities.
(Main photo: As part of its campaign to encourage the public to grow more trees for carbon credits, the Royal Forest Department is handing out tree saplings to people for free. Royal Forest…
Thai statutory law asserts equal rights for women and men over the ownership, use and inheritance of private property. In one respect, this works to the detriment of women, since Thailand has a traditional matrilocal system of land tenure.
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11 October 2022
Dans la forêt classée des Trois Rivières, au nord du Bénin, le début de la saison agricole est un point chaud fréquent de conflits entre les communautés locales et les agents forestiers.
C'est à ce moment-là que l'on réclame des droits forestiers autorisant les habitants à cultiver les champs ou…
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Around the world, insecure property rights prevent families from feeling confident about the future, businesses from investing, and communities from becoming more productive. Hundreds of millions of us lack property security. This makes the world poorer, less free, and less just.
There is a growing…