Kevin Woods
Senior Policy AnalystForest Policy, Trade, and Finance Initiative
Dr. Kevin Woods has worked in the Mekong Region, including Myanmar (Burma), for nearly two decades on environmental governance and conflict in the land, forestry and agricultural sectors. For the past decade he has worked to help build Forest Trends’ program in Myanmar. Initially focusing on more narrow legality aspects of Myanmar’s timber trade with regards to FLEGT, the Myanmar program has since expanded to encompass conversion timber from agribusiness concessions and more recently, Myanmar’s EITI for forestry and broader resource governance reforms that contribute to political federalism and environmental peacebuilding. Dr. Woods has a master’s degree in environmental science from Yale University and a Ph.D. in political ecology from UC Berkeley. He has published extensively in NGO reports, including for Forest Trends, and other policy fora, as well as academic book chapters and journal articles.
“Conflict Rubber” and Land Rights in Southeastern Myanmar
By Kevin Woods, Naomi Basik Treanor, and Mike Dwyer View PublicationIn the northern Tanintharyi (Tenasserim) Region of southeastern Myanmar, after decades of war, rubber expansion is aggravating tenure insecurity and ethnic political conflict, ultimately undermining peacebuilding and security. Since the main Mon and Karen (Kayin) rebel groups signed ceasefires with the Myanmar military in 2012, rubber production has expanded southward from its epicenter in Mon[…]
Natural Resource Governance Reform and the Peace Process in Myanmar
By Kevin Woods View PublicationThis report summarizes the role of natural resources in armed conflict and the current peace process in Myanmar. It serves as a baseline study for efforts to promote equitable and accountable management of natural resources for peacebuilding. The main findings overall indicate a lack of meaningful progress on moving towards natural resource good governance reform[…]
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Executive Summary of Natural Resource Governance and the Peace Process in Myanmar
By Kevin Woods View Publication
မန္မာႏိုင္ငံတြင္စီးပြားျဖစ္စိုက္ပ်ိဳးေရး တိုးခ်ဲ႕ျပဳလုပ္လာျခင္း
သစ္ေတာျပဳန္းတီးမႈ၊ သစ္အသြင္ေျပာင္းျခင္းႏွင့္ ေျမဆိုင္ရာပဋိပကၡမ်ားႏွင့္ ဆက္ႏြယ္မႈမ်ား
By Kevin Woods - Forest Trends View Publication
Forest Governance, Timber Trade Legality and Ethnic Conflict in Myanmar
By Kevin Woods View Publication
Commercial Agriculture Expansion in Myanmar: Links to Deforestation, Conversion Timber, and Land Conflicts
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
By Kevin Woods View Publication
Commercial Agriculture Expansion in Myanmar: Links to Deforestation, Conversion Timber, and Land Conflicts
By Kevin Woods View PublicationWASHINGTON, DC (12 March 2015) — An exclusive new analysis reveals that the Government of Myanmar has allocated at least 5.2 million acres and plans to allocate another 11 million acres of Southeast Asia’s last remaining biodiversity-rich high-value forests to make way for large-scale, private agribusiness projects that often never materialize. Many of these forest areas […]
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Commercial Agriculture Expansion in Myanmar: Links to Deforestation, Conversion Timber, and Land Conflicts
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
By Kevin Woods
မန္မာႏိုင္ငံတြင္စီးပြားျဖစ္စိုက္ပ်ိဳးေရး တိုးခ်ဲ႕ျပဳလုပ္လာျခင္း
သစ္ေတာျပဳန္းတီးမႈ၊ သစ္အသြင္ေျပာင္းျခင္းႏွင့္ ေျမဆိုင္ရာပဋိပကၡမ်ားႏွင့္ ဆက္ႏြယ္မႈမ်ား
By Kevin Woods - Forest Trends
Agribusiness and Agro-Conversion Timber in Myanmar: New Drivers of Deforestation and Land Grabs
By Kevin Woods - Forest Trends, Research Analyst - Myanmar, and UC-Berkeley, Ph.D. Candidate View Publication
Timber Trade Flows and Actors in Myanmar
By Kevin Woods View PublicationThis report on Myanmar’s political economy of timber trade highlights five different sources and flows of timber destined for export. The purpose is to bring to light the different actors, geographies, and politics embedded within the web of timber flows because each inter-connected stream has its own degree of legality, sustainability, land rights regimes, and […]
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Timber Trade Flows and Actors in Myanmar
The Political Economy of Myanmar's Timber Trade (Translated)
By Kevin Woods
Timber Trade Flows and Actors in Myanmar
The Political Economy of Myanmar's Timber Trade (Translated)
By Kevin Woods View Publication
Thailand
Overview of Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade
By Kevin Woods, Keith Barney, Kerstin Canby - University of California, Berkeley, York University, Forest Trends View PublicationThailand diverges from neighboring regional Mekong countries, with a decade or more experience of actively pursuing policies to combat domestic illegal logging and internal transportation. The 1989 logging ban, and the rise of grassroots social movements organizing around large-scale plantations and community displacement, has meant that Thai forestry institutions have needed to become more responsive […]