Land relations publications

Publications

Diepart, J.-C., Scurrah, N., Beban, A., Gironde, C. and Campbell, N.Y. (2024). Recognition of customary tenure in the forest landscapes of the Mekong region. State of Land in the Mekong Region Series, Policy Brief Nr 3. Vientiane: MRLG and CDE. Download: English

Pratzer, M., Meyfroidt, P., Antongionvani, M., Aragon, R., Baldi, G., Cabezas, S.C., de la Vega-Leinert, A.C., Dhyani, S., Diepart, J.-C., David Fernandez, P., Garnett, S.T., Pizarro, G.I.G., Kalam, T., Koulgi, P., le Polain de Waroux, Y., Marinaro, S. M, Mueller, D., Mueller, R, Murali, R. Nanni, S. Nuñez-Regueiro, M., Prieto-Torres, D.A., Ratnam, J., Reddy, , C.S., Ribeiro, N. Röder, A., Romero-Muñoz, A., Sarathi Roy, P. Rufin, P., Rufino, M, Sankaran, M., Torres, R. Vaidyanathan, S., Vallejos, M. Virah-Sawmy, M, Kuemmerle, T. (2024). An actor-centered, scalable land system typology for addressing biodiversity loss in the world’s tropical dry woodlands. Global Environmental Change, 86, 102849. Download: English

Diepart, Jean-Christophe and Oeur Il (2023). Communities at the Core of Protected Area Management: Learning from customary tenure documentation experiences in Cambodia. MRLG Case Study Series #8. Phnom Penh: MRLG, WCS, HA. Download: Full (English)Brief (English)

Diepart, J.-C., Scurrah, N., Beban, A., Gironde, C. & Campbell, N.Y. (2023). The recognition and formalization of customary tenure in the forest landscapes of the Mekong region: a Polanyian perspective. Journal of Land Use Science, 18:1, 211-226, DOI:10.1080/1747423X.2023.2206814 Download: English

Diepart, J.-C., Boutry, M. and Venot, J.-P. (2022). Irrigated land tenure in Myanmar and Cambodia: The State, the Market … and Smallholders! Synthesis note. Montpellier : COSTEA & CTFD. Download: EnglishFrançais

Diepart, J.-C. and Thuon, T. (2022). Irrigated land tenure in Cambodia. What are the perspectives for smallholder farmers? Final study report. Phnom Penh: COSTEA. Download: English

Diepart, J.-C. and Middleton, C. (2022). Land Commodification, State Formation and Agrarian Capitalism: The Political Economy of Land Governance in Cambodia. In Hirsh, Woods, Scurrah and Dwyer (eds). Turning Land into Capital. Development and Dispossession in the Mekong Region. Chapter 5. Seattle: University of Washington Press. Link to the book (email me if you want a copy)

Diepart, J.-C. and Castellanet, C. (2022). Agrarian modernization and counter land reforms: ideologies and realities in the Mekong region. Hirsh, Woods, Scurrah and Dwyer (eds). Turning Land into Capital. Development and Dispossession in the Mekong Region. Chapter 3. Seattle: University of Washington Press. Link to the book  (email me if you want a copy)

Woods, K, Dwyer, M and Diepart J.-C (2022). Intersecting Legacies: Colonialism, War and Socialism and its Effects on Contemporary Land Governance. In Hirsh, Woods, Scurrah and Dwyer (eds). Turning Land into Capital. Development and Dispossession in the Mekong Region. Chapter 2. Seattle: University of Washington Press.  Link to the book (email me if you want a copy)

Diepart, J.-C. and Thuon, T. (2022). Exclusions in the Cambodian irrigation sector: perspectives from Battambang province. Cahiers Agricultures, 31, 15. Download: English

Mahanty, S., Diepart, J.-C. and Long, S. (2021). Courting justice: when legal challenges to corporate land grabs go wrong. Political Ecology Network (POLLEN), Web

Diepart, J.-C. (2021). Dynamiques agraires et foncières dans la région du Mékong au début du XXIe siècle: quelle place pour les paysanneries? In C. Cabasset et C. Tran (Dir.), Asie Du Sud-Est 2021: Bilan, Enjeux et Perspectives (pp. 55-80). Paris: Irasec et Les Indes Savantes. Link to the article (email me if you want a copy)

Diepart, J.-C., Ngin, C. and Oeur, Il. (2019). Struggles for life: Smallholder farmers’ resistance and State land relations in contemporary Cambodia. Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 38(1) 10-32. Link to the article. Download: English

Diepart, J.-C., Mellac, M. et Oeur, I. (2019). À qui sont ces communs ? La cogestion dans les pêcheries de la plaine d’inondation du Tonle Sap, une perspective d’écologie politique. In Aubert, S., D’Aquino, P., Bousquet, F., Antona, M. and Toulmin C. (dir). L’approche par les communs de la terre et des ressources qu’elle porte. Illustration par six études de cas, pp. 21-30. Regards sur le foncier no 6, Comité Technique ‘Foncier et Développement’. Download: English – French

Ingalls, M. and Diepart, J.-C. (Eds) (2018). State of Land in the Mekong Region. Bern, Switzerland and Vientiane, Lao PDR: Centre for Development and Environment, University of Bern, and Mekong Region Land Governance, Bern Open Publishing. Download the book: English

  • Ingalls, M. and Diepart, J.-C., (2018). The Mekong at a crossroad. In The State of Land in the Mekong Region (pp. 7-65). Download: English
  • Diepart, J.-C., (2018). State of Land in Cambodia: Marginalizing or Centering Smallholder Farmers? In The State of Land in the Mekong Region (pp. 66-85). Download: English

Diepart, J.-C. and Sem, T. (2018). Cambodian Peasants and the Formalization of Land Rights: Historical Overview and Current Issues. 2nd Edition. Technical Committee for Land Tenure and Development, AFD-MEAE. Download: English

San Thein, Diepart J.-C., Hlwan Moe and C. Allaverdian (2018). Large-Scale Land Acquisitions for Agricultural Development in Myanmar: A Review of Past and Current Processes. MRLG Thematic Study Series #9. Vientiane: MRLG. Download: English

Mellac, M. et Diepart, J.-C. (2017). Les communs fonciers à l’ère d’internet au Cambodge, une approche par les conflits, NETCOM, 31(1-2), 129-152. Download: French

Diepart, J.-C. (2017). Relations between peasantry and state in contemporary Cambodia: A critical journey from lowland to upland regions. The Newsletter of the International Institute for Asian Studies, No.78. Download: English

Diepart, J.-C. and Schoenberger, L. (2017). Concessions in Cambodia: governing profits, extending state power and enclosing resources from the colonial era to the present. In K. Brickell and S. Springer (Eds.). The Handbook of Contemporary Cambodia (pp. 157–168). Download: English

San Thein, Pyae Sone and Diepart, J.-C. (2017). Transparency Under Scrutiny. Information disclosure by the Parliamentary Land Investigation Commission in Myanmar. MRLG Case Study Series #1. Vientiane: Mekong Region Land Governance. Download: English

Ngin, C. and Diepart, J.-C. (2016). Challenges in Managing State Land in Cambodia: Addressing Competing Interests for Lands inside Protected Areas (PAs). Discussion Note Series. Vientiane: Mekong Region Land Governance. Download: English

Chap, S., Touch P. and J.-C. Diepart (2016). Fisheries reforms and right-based fisheries: insights from community fisheries across Cambodia. Phnom Penh: The Learning Institute. Download: English

Diepart, J.-C. (2015). La voie étroite du développement rural paysan au Cambodge. Agricultures, modernisation des régimes fonciers et luttes d’acteurs. In P. Lebailly, J.-P. Peemans & T. Vu Dinh (Eds.), Développement rural et petite paysannerie en Asie du Sud-Est. Leçons d’expériences au Vietnam et au Cambodge (pp. 163-212). Paris: L’Harmattan. Download: French

Diepart, J.-C. (2015). The fragmentation of land tenure systems in Cambodia: peasants and the formalization of land rights. Country Profile Series, No6 Cambodia Paris: Technical Committee on “Land Tenure and Development”. Download: English

Tol, S., Srey, M. and Diepart, J.-C. (2009). Local-Level Monitoring in Decentralized Forest Management: Exploring the Spaces for Community Participation. In Learning Institute (Ed.), Emerging Trends, Challenges and Innovations. Community Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) in Cambodia. Learning Symposiums and the Development of Selected Papers (pp. 125-148). Phnom Penh: CBNRM Learning Institute. Download: English

Srey, M., Diepart, J.-C., Carson, T., River-Guieb, R., & Taylor, J. (Eds.). (2008). Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation System for Sustainable Community Forestry Management. An Experience form Kampong Thom Province. Phnom Penh: Community-Based Natural Resources Management Learning Institute. Download the book: English

Diepart, J.-C. (2007). Recent Land Dynamics in the Tonle Sap Flood Plain and its impacts on the local communities. Tonle Sap Biosphere Reserve Bulletin, 3, 20-22. Download: English