What are the potential implications for Myanmar’s majority rural working poor…of the…draft national land use policy?…This preliminary assessment aims to shed light on the key aspects of the draft policy and its potential implications for the country’s majority rural working poor, especially its ethnic minority peoples…Initial scrutiny suggests that those who see the land problem today as a problem of business and investment – e.g., how to establish a more secure environment particularly for foreign direct investments – are likely to be pleased with the draft policy…Those who think that the land problem goes deeper – e.g., implicating the social-ecological foundations of the country’s unfolding political-economic transition – are likely to be seriously concerned…