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Laos regulatory impact assessment (RIA) 2013
To address this requires better consideration of the purpose, impacts and compliance/enforcement costs of regulations.
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Lao PDR investment and access to land and natural resources: challenges in promoting sustainable development
Land, labor and capital are the three key factors of production in any country. Lao People‟s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR), is a Low Income Country (LIC), whose mos...
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Integrated rodent management in outbreak-prone upland rice growing areas of Northern Laos 2015
There were serious outbreaks in the uplands in the wet seasons of 2008 and 2009 that led to un-bearable conditions for rural families (World Food Programme, 2009). Houaphanh pr...
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Wild food collection and nutrition under commercial agriculture expansion in agriculture-forest landscapes 2016
Nutritional outcomes for rural inhabitants are determined not simply by food production in a landscape or even household incomes, but are highly influenced by access to and cont...
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Enhancing key elements of the value chain for plantation grown wood in Lao PDR policy brief on legal barriers and legality issues for smallholder plantation owners and their wood
This project makes the following recommendations to address issues with respect to regulatory barriers through the smallholder plantation value chain: Streamlining the process f...
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Land deal in Lao: First insights from a new nationwide initiative to assessment in land May 2015
Even though land acquisitions for tree plantations, agricultural commodities and mineral extraction contribute to gross national revenue, such investments also have negative eff...
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Forest management improvement conserves biodiversity and strengthens livelihoods in Lao communities
Over the last months, USAID LEAF has been supporting rural villages in Laos in planning to reforest areas that have been subject to extensive deforestation as a result of loc...
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Update on SSWG and Lao Census of Agricultural (LCA) 2017
2016 accomplishments: Review of International Treaties and biodiversity and PDR’ Commitments and Opportunities (June). Presentation and Discussion of “Use in PDR Opportunit...
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A study of women’s time utilization in relation to the market economy in Khammouane Province, Lao PDR. 19 November 2005
In economic studies of time allocation in developing countries the distinction between work inside and outside the home has been interpreted literally with the rathe...
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Pro poor policy recommendation to combat risks in smallholder organic production in the Hadxayfong District of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic 2016
Organic vegetables are one priority of the Lao government in achieveing food security and commodity. In addition, organic vegetable production is an important acti...
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The socio-geography of mining and hydro in Lao PDR
This note was prepared by Nina Fenton and Magnus Lindelow. The GIS analysis was provided by Andreas Heinimann and Ian Thomas, of the Swiss National C...
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Sustainable development in Lao PDR
This report conducted by NAFRI and NUOL for exhibit option for improving livelihood in hydro power resettlement, extension and diversity, Social Safeguard in resettlement, Women...
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Drivers of poverty reduction in Lao PDR october 2015
Poverty continues to decline, Lao PDR met the MDG target of halving extreme poverty
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Corporate social responsibility in lao
This study on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) was commissioned by GIZ and BGR to inform the work of the Lao-German development cooperation programme‘ Economic De...
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gtz-rubber-luang-namtha-2008-lao
This case study show the rubber plantation growth and compare to realities situation in both of the border and this case is focusing for relevant sector as: villagers, investor ...
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Report on FLEGT, Forestry policy using, forest management and trade
Report on FLEGT, Forestry policy using, forest management and trade
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Land and forest allocation and its implication on forest management and household livelihoods: comparison of case studies from CBNRM Research in central Laos 2004
Community based natural resource management became increasingly important in Laos during the 1990s. The Land and Forest Allocation (LFA) is a landmark reform ...
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Hydropower compensation and changing nature-society relations in Laos July 13 2015
In this context, the government has pursued extensive land reforms through the prohibition of swidden agriculture (often inappropriately referred to as ‘slash and burn’ cultiva...
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Regional seminar on the promotion of geographical indications “Promoting the origin, quality and local wisdom
2016, the LAO PDR is joining this trend in launching its GI registration sys tem and in preparing to welcome both national and international GI applications in the...
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Phongsaly cardamom cross border value vhain study 2015
Demonstrate on farm cultivation in southern districts of Phongsaly province to improve productivity of cardamom cultivation (different sites, shading, establishment, density, re...