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Evaluation of the project to support the implementation of the timber strategy
Allocation of forest management has created two positive impacts: protecting the environment, improving livelihoods, and providing compensation for villagers who are well-organized
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Rubber, rights and resistance: the evolution of local struggles against a Chinese rubber concession in Northern Laos 29 Apr 2015.
Since 2000, land deals across all sectors of the Lao economy have increased by 50-fold, and are conservatively estimated to cover more than 1.1 million ha, or 5 percent of Lao t...
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Land degradation in the Lao PDR: Discourses and policy
t is notably argued that forest clearing increases rainfall runoff which, in turn, fosters soil erosion. Increased runoff also alters hydrological regimes and increases the fr...
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Natural resource goverance
In urban areas, the state’s water suppliers are private companies. On the plains where the state’s major agricultural production is concentrated, irrigation water supply is ...
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The Bombing of Laos and the browning of one volunteer
This paper recounts a story that is both old and new - a story of U.S. bombing of Laos during the Indochina War and how it came to affect one young volunteer, namely, myself.
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Farmers and agribusiness - meta study 2014
finding: Commercial agriculture have mixed results. Most of the commodities produced are for regional markets. The traditional distinction between “uplands” and “lowlands” is no...
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Lao Development Report 2014
Although recent media reports of a perceived “skills problem” in Lao PDR have spurred an in-tense focus on the role of the education sector in creating the right skills, this fo...
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Bamboo project evaluation 2015
Four value chains are developed: Handicraft products for domestic market and export, using different species of bamboo.Slats and sticks for export to Vietnam. Fresh kh...
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Agriculture and forestry research strategy to cope climate risk
Smallholder-based production with low productivity; minimal farmer experience with modern agriculture technologies and marketing, Post-harvest loss still high and lack of value-...
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Plantation rubber, land grabbing and social-property transformation in southern Laos
This paper shows how land concessions in Laos, and global land grabbing more broadly, can be analyzed through various lenses of accumulation-, dispossession- and exclusion-orie...
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Great expectations: Chinese tree plantation concessions in the Lao PDR
A presentation of research findings regarding Chinese tree plantation concessions in the Lao PDR
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Lao land concessions, development for the people?
This paper aims to provide policy makers with an analysis of information recently gathered in Laos concerning land concessions, hoping to assist them in their decision making.
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Coffee markets, smallholder credit, and landscape change in the Bolaven planteau region Laos
Recently, as the Bolaven Plateau has been socio-spatially reconfigured to accommodate new, non-smallholder coffee commodity chains, the prospects for moving toward an alternat...
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Enhancing sustainable of diverse agriculture in Lao People's Democratic republic December 2005
To investigate the socio-economic impacts of recent development and the economic environment, including trade liberalization on upland agriculture at the village level. To iden...
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Decree on import licensing procedures
The notification has been made to provincial and municipal agriculture and forestry departments to strictly monitor the import of goods.
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Laos: a state coordinated frontier economy April 2011
the economic activities in Northern Laos are a form of unregulated frontier capitalism. The available evidence presented in this paper provides a differe nt picture. In fact t...
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Communal land titles in the Lao PDR: Extracting lessons from pilot initiatives December 2013
Sustainable management of land resources has been recognized as one of the most important conditions for eradicating poverty and promoting inclusive socioeconomic development, e...
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Gender and climate change adaptation training
The training outcome is very satisfactory. Participants actively involve in the training activities and discussion. They contribute their knowledge and real-life lessons from th...
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A nice communication strategy
This document presents a simple, practical, and strategic process for the participatory development of communications initiatives to be used by the Lao PDR National Agriculture ...
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Agriculture, ecosystems and environment: Long-term soil carbon loss and accumulation in a catchment following the conversion of forest to arable land in northern Laos
agriculture is encroaching rapidly on tropical mountain due to demographic and economic pressure that accelerate deforestation. such disruption cause soil loss along catchment ...