MIDCOURSE MANOEUVRES: - Community strategies and remedies for natural resource

With the formalisation of land rights, the colonial government was able to regulate land use and provide protection for owners, when it deemed necessary, while the ultimate ownership of the land across the nation vested with the state. [...] After the permission of the District Forest Officer (DFO) to establish the community forest, the FUG manages the forest with the help of the forest department. [...] However, the laws issued in 2012—the Farmland Law and VFV Law—state that the land will be registered in the name of the head of the household, which in many Asian cultures is considered to be the husband (Neef, 2016). [...] Even of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar clearly though, local farmers have been using their land states “The Union:(a) is the ultimate owner of all for years, paid their taxes according to the previous lands and all natural resources above and below Farmland Law, and received agricultural loans (some the ground, above and beneath the water and in the of them even have LUCs issued to them acco. [...] 16 The ministry reserves the right to inspect the premises of any project proponent for the purpose of monitoring with the help of the Environment Department’s officers.