Op-Ed by Landesa in the New York Times calling for secure land rights in Myanmar

JUNE 13, 2012 — In today’s New York Times, Landesa founder, Roy Prosterman, and Landesa senior attorney, Darryl Vhugen, authored an editorial on how Myanmar can lay the foundation for sustained economic progress by providing legal rights to land for its citizens – especially its millions of smallholder farmers. | Full article on NYTimes.com

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