Samata helps tribal groups address problems of land alienation, displacement, and political dis-empowerment.

Samata takes up research, studies and prepares reports on issues related to tribals/scheduled areas, mining, forestry, environment, human rights, land alienation, rural development programmes, legal issues, etc.

Road improvements and political stability have increased land prices, and land alienation in Ratanakiri has been a major problem.

Logging, particularly illegal logging, has been a problem both for environmental reasons and because of land alienation.

By the mid-1870s he became disillusioned with the Native Land Court and began to call for Maori control over land title and land alienation.

Further land alienations were much smaller.

(See Ratanakiri Province for background information on land alienation.)

Deep seated problems of land alienation dating from colonialism, unresolved after independence have led to a number of compensation claims on land use.

Following the involvement of several international NGOs, land alienation has decreased in frequency.

Chinese miners, merchants and ranchers enjoyed full rights to mineral tenure and land alienation and in some areas became the mainstay of the local economy for decades.