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Between the Plough and the Pick deepens our understanding of informal, artisanal and small-scale mining, popularly known as ASM. The book engages with wider scholarly conceptualisations of contemporary global social, agrarian and political changes, whilst underlining the roles that local social‑political-historical contexts play in shaping ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has just published a new map detailing Cambodia one window service offices coverage in two languages, Khmer and English.  Access the map ...

A collection of map layers representing forest cover, loss and gain from the Hansen (2016) update along with other regional environmental datasets.  See the map ...

Land is a hotly contested resource in the LMCs , with the primary driver being economic development. Deforestation as a consequence is a major issue in the LMCs, and illegal trafficking of lumber and wildlife continue unabated. Added value through agriculture forms more than a quarter of the GDP in Cambodia ...

The new page provides an overview of life below water in Mekong countries with main targets and indicators. The page also showcases a map of maritime boundaries of South East Asia, 200 nautical miles with disputed South China Sea colored in Red.  Please visit new page ...

The Lao government is particularly interested in transforming an apparent disadvantage of being a landlocked country into an advantage by becoming a land-linked nation. This would see Laos as a point of connection among neighboring countries, bridging the more advanced economies of China, Thailand, and Vietnam. The new ...

Although each SDG stands on its own as a goal, they remain interconnected and achieving one impacts the achievement of another [] Achieving SDG 6 will impact achievement of SDG 14 Life Below Water and SDG 15 Life on Land, among others. Besides an overview of ...

The Annual Country Reviews by Mekong Land Research Forum reflect upon current land issues in the Mekong Region, and has been produced for researchers, practitioners and policy advocates operating in the field. Specialists have been selected from Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam to briefly ...

Throughout the Lower Mekong Countries (LMCs), local strategies are being developed to monitor the implementation of the SDGs. Yet, these metrics are not helpful without baseline data, which is inconsistent, if not unavailable entirely, for Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Cambodia. What data is available is often ...

The spreadsheet contains information both in Khmer and English including service type, service provided, details related to each service provided and references.Click to access “Services delivery at health center”.  ...