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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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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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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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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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Key Themes in Land Governance: Synopses of Research, Policy and Action in the Mekong Region
The Mekong region is marked by particular kinds of historical and contemporary land uses, social relations around land, interactions within and across national borders, and patt...
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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...
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Conflict of land titles are created
Traditional customs of the people are reliable and continue to carry on until now. Some of them are not in line with the laws of the state, and the implementation of the relevan...
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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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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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Biodiversity assessment of the Mekong River in northern Lao PDR: A follow up study
The follow-up scoping survey presented in this report builds on the first rapid biodiversity scoping study of the upper stretches of the Mekong conducted in February 2003. It is...
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From Landlocked to Land-linked: Unlocking the potential of Lao-China railway connectivity
This analytical report is produced by world bank which compiles 5 chapters starting from the broader economic context of the railway sector and evaluating the complementary ref...
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Assessment of the environmental and social impacts created by the VLRC industrial rubber plantation and proposed environmental and social plans
Vietnam General Rubber Corporation entered into an Authorisation and Licence Agreement with the Government of Lao PDR on the 18th of January 2005 for the devel...
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Law No. 33/2013/QH13 of the National Assembly: Law on natural disaster prevention and control
This Law provides natural disaster prevention and control activities; rights and obligations of agencies, organizations, households and individuals engaged in natural disaster...
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[Draft] Completed environmental and social impact assessment report (EIA) for agro-industrial plantation development plan for SK Plantaion (Cambodia) Pte.LTD
This is the environmental impact assessment report about a development project of a company received 6,509.27 hectares of land concession in Trapeang Kraham commune and Teun com...
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Community Land Titling in Thailand: The Legal Evolution and Piloting of Titling Policy
The purpose of this thematic study is to provide a comprehensive overview of land tenure systems in Thailand, with a focus upon the recent development of community land titling ...
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Monitoring and Review of the Sustainable Development Goals & Development Justice - Thailand 2017
Over the past five decades, Thailand has made remarkable progress in economic development, elevating Thailand from a low-income country to a middle-income country. However, this...
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Toward a National Eco-Compensation Regulation in the People's Republic of China
Eco-compensation in the PRC is mainly a public mechanism to promote environmental protection and restoration, including through the payment for ecological services. It is a pack...
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Decree on the Establishment of Foreign Correspondents' Office in Lao PDR No. 97 / PM, 22 March 2007
This decree specifies the principle of movement, the scope of the establishment of the bureau and the appointment of the Honorable Consular Officer
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Contract between the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and Growest Building Trading Co., Ltd on Investment of Plantation for Rubber, Teak Tree (Tectona Grandis) and Acacia
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries agrees to grant a total land concession of 9,996 hectares located in communes of Snul, Sreachar, and Ksean, Snul district, Kr...