OneMap Myanmar
Participatory mapping for land governance
OneMap Myanmar is a multi-stakeholder platform for the co-production of data, information and knowledge on land in Myanmar. I coordinated this project for four years as head of mission at a research centre, in partnership with the World Bank.
The project aimed to develop multi-stakeholder platforms for geographical data production to resolve the numerous land conflicts - between the government, civil society, oil palm planters and ethnic armed groups in southern Myanmar.
Context
In Myanmar, oil palm concessions initiated in the early 1990s caused severe damage to biodiversity and social peace. OneMap assembled drones, activists, satellite data and participatory mapping to create a space for dialogue between actors often in direct conflict.
Related publications
Assembling Drones, Activists and Oil Palms: Implications of a Multi-stakeholder Land Platform for State Formation in Myanmar
Baechtold, Bastide, Lundsgaard-Hansen - European Journal of Development Research, 2020
Oil palm concessions in southern Myanmar consist mostly of unconverted forest
Nomura, Mitchard, Patenaude, Bastide et al. - Nature Scientific Reports, 2019
OneMap Myanmar - Enabling a multi-stakeholder environment for the co-production of data, information and knowledge on land
Bastide & Heinimann - World Bank Annual Conference on Land and Poverty, 2018
