Since 2008, the Burmese government has initiated major institutional changes, particularly in the area of land tenure, with a view to creating a framework conducive to the economic development of the country. At the same time, the authorities have put in place a policy encouraging private investment in agribusiness. These developments are draining as many opportunities as they are threats for improving the living conditions of populations living in rural areas.

Despite the existence of several studies showing land dynamics in Myanmar, there is a real need to document the processes of insecurity at work: land markets, and their impacts on access to land, the links between interventions led by the State and land management practiced by local authorities, the correlations between modes of access and food security, etc. are all issues to be analyzed in order to better understand the issues and challenges of the contemporary land issue in Myanmar.

This study project, funded by LIFT since 2013 and implemented by GRET, aims to fill this lack of information and knowledge on an issue with many development challenges. In a context of political openness, these studies aim to feed the debates of land policy actors in their diversity (State, civil society actors, etc.) and to promote the establishment of new reference frameworks that secure the land. access to land for the greatest number.