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  • Title of document: Agroecology Transition in Myanmar: Issues, Status and Stakeholder Mapping

    Authors: San Thein and Aung Thin

    Ministry/Government Agency/Organization: GRET / Village Integrated Development Association (VIDA)

    Year of publication: 2016

    Geographic focus: Myanmar

    This report on situation review of agro ecological transition in Myanmar is the follow up feasibility study (Consultation workshop on agro ecology, held at Yangon, on 12 June 2013) with the support of Groupe de Recherche et d’Echanges Technologiques (GRET) conducting a stock taking of practices, actors, success stories and constraints to adoption of  agro ecology principles in Myanmar agriculture sector. This study aims at further mapping agro ecological initiatives at local, state-divisional and national level.

    The paper is divided into three parts: the first part explains background context, the second reviews the policy and legal framework promoting or restricting the agro ecological activities and the third part is the explanation of six schools of agro ecological activities at country level, divisional (provisional) and local level and their linkages finally followed by brief discussion of allies and champions in respective activities.