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Thailand Economic Monitor: Thailand in the Time of COVID-19
The Thailand Economic Monitor (TEM) reports on key developments in Thailand’s economy over the past six months, situates these changes in the context of global trends and Thaila...
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Shifting Cultivation in Laos: Transitions in Policy and Perspective
This report addresses the complex issue of shifting cultivation, which was brought up at the 2011 Round Table Implementation Meeting between the Lao government and international...
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Civil Society Recommendations on the Future of VPAs: Making Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) Work for Forests, People and the Climate
This briefing note is intended to contribute to the ongoing debate about future support to the European Union (EU) Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Action Pl...
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Assessment of the Credit Opportunities for Indigenous Communities in Cambodia Holding a Collective Land Title
To explore the reports that it might be more difficult for members of indigenous communities with collective title to access finance, OHCHR commissioned an in-depth review of th...
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The use of NTFPs from wildlife villages and Ban Houayhuan Noi district, Nongoing district, Luangprabang province
The use of NTFPs from wildlife villages and Ban Houayhuan Noi district, Nongoing district, Luangprabang province
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Lao PDR investment climate assessment 2014: Policy uncertainty in the midst of a natural resources boom
The World Bank undertakes periodic Investment Climate Assessments in order to provide policymakers with a better understanding of how the private sector is performing and where ...
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Increasing Pressure for Land - Implications for Rural Livelihoods in Developing Countries: The Case of Cambodia
This study aims to (1) analyse the early impacts of ELCs on indigenous people in the project area of Welt hunger hilfe, (2) analyse the context and the p...
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Farmers’ Responses to Drivers of Forest Cover Change: The Case of Mae Chaem District, Thailand
Empirical forest transition (shift from deforestation to reforestation) literature has historically struggled to establish a single universally-accepted forest transition “theo...
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Export Competitiveness of the Cambodian Rubber Sector Relative to Other Greater Mekong Subregion Suppliers a simple descriptive analysis
The development of the Cambodian rubber industry during the past two years has been noticeably positive due to the substantial and continuous rise in prices of natural rubber. I...
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Impacts of 25 years of groundwater extraction on subsidence in the Mekong delta, Vietnam
Many major river deltas in the world are subsiding and consequently become increasingly vulnerable to flooding and storm surges, salinization and permanent inundation. For the M...
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The Recognition of Customary Tenure in Vietnam
This thematic study explores the possibilities for strengthening the recognition of customary tenure in Vietnam. It begins with an overview of customary tenure in Vietnam, parti...
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Forest-Land Commons in Laos in the Twenty-First Century: Agrarian Capitalism and the Non-Commodified Subsistence Guarantee
Over the last two decades, a broad alliance of domestic and international actors in the Lao PDR have devised policy interventions on the issue of strengthening customary tenure....
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Hungry for Land: Small farmers feed the world with less than a quarter of all farmland
Governments and international agencies frequently boast that small farmers control the largest share of the world's agricultural land. Inaugurating 2014 as the International Yea...
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Education 2030: Incheon Declaration and Framework for Action for the Implementation of SDG 4
UNESCO together with UNICEF, the World Bank, UNFPA, UNDP, UN Women and UNHCR organized the World Education Forum 2015 in Incheon, Republic of Korea, from 19 – 22 May 2015, hoste...
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Together We Deliver: 50 Stories of ADB's Partnerships in Asia and the Pacific
Over the 50 years since the Asian Development Bank (ADB) was founded, it has supported thousands of projects and programs that have benefited millions of people across Asia and...
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Who will bear the cost of REDD+? Evidence from subnational REDD+ initiatives
While REDD+ has increasingly been accepted in United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations and regional and voluntary markets for carbon offsets, ...
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Guide to biodiversity in the farmscapes of Lao PDR (Lao version)
A Lao translation of a handbook about farmscape biodiversity in Laos. The handbook is intended to provide a brief overview of the special habitats in each region of the country ...
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Building up land concession inventories: The case of Lao PDR
The national inventory of land purchases and leases in Lao PDR is unique in providing comprehensive in-depth analysis of the extent and impacts of large scale land acquisitions ...
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The use of wild-type forestry products in Huaylek and hounnoy village Luangprabang Province
To provide technical training and practical training to project staff and regular staff
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Chapter 2: Climate change and natural disaster (Excerpt from National environmental assessment report - period from 2011-2015)
Vietnam was one of the most vulnerable countries to the effects of climage change, reflecting in the increase in number and level of extreme natural disasters (typhoon, heavy ra...