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Proportion of Urban Population Living in Slums
On 1 January 2016, the world officially began implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development—the transformative plan of action based on 17 Sustainable Development...
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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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Statistical Yearbook for Asia and the Pacific 2017- Lao PDR SDG datasheet
The report examines the progress towards the SDGs implementation in Lao PDR and their targets. Despite some gaps in data and indicators, the report identifies patterns of where ...
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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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The Food Insecurity Experience Scale: Measuring food insecurity through people’s experiences
The FIES is a metric of severity of food insecurity at the household or individual level that relies on people’s direct yes/no responses to eight brief questions regarding their...
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Current trends of rubber plantation expansion may threaten biodiversity and livelihoods 2015
Although rubber is produced successfully in some marginal environment–as many hardy clones have been developed – there are also numerous reports of failures associated with en...
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Policy versus reality in the Lao forestry sector
This article is concerned with the newest incarnation of community forestry in Laos, called “participatory sus-tainable forest management,” or PSFM. In essence, this type of com...
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South China Sea Countries to Cooperate on Integrating Fisheries and Marine Ecosystem Management
The South China Sea is the global center of shallow water tropical marine biodiversity, however the loss of coastal habitats in this marine basin are high and increasing. Each d...
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The judicial system in Thailand: An outlook for a new century
A report about Thailand’s judicial system, with chapters written by seven judges from various courts of justice in Thailand. The report covers (i) historical background of the j...
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Land and Forest Governance in the Naga Village Republic
This report is based on a research project on the Naga customary land tenure system, conducted by Resource Rights for The Indigenous Peoples (RRtIP) in collaboration with Land C...
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Junta’s attempt to ‘return forest’ hurts the poor
This is an article about reclaiming land by the Royal Forest Department officials from the farmers in Mae Ngao National Park in the northern province of Mae Hong Son.
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Renewable Energy Developments and Potential in the Greater Mekong Subregion
Renewable energy alternatives in the form of solar, wind, biomass, and biogas address these imperatives, not as solutions but as nonetheless important steps toward sustainable a...
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The economic potential for smallholder rubber production in northern Laos
The Babbler is the quarterly newsletter of BirdLife International in Indochina. This quarter The Babbler was compiled by Tran Thi Thanh Huong Huong@birdlife.org.vn and edited by... -
REDD+ at the crossroads: Choices and tradeoffs for 2015-2020 in Laos
This study examines key choices and tradeoffs that confront current efforts to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) in Laos. Drawing on key inform...
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Fish problems die in the pond.
This case will be presented on the problem of dead fish in Natham Village, Pak Ngum District, Vientiane Capital, which affects people's livelihoods And issues concerning the ...
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National sector review 2003: Hydropower
Cambodia is one of the south-east Asian countries that is rich in water resources. According to the latest preliminary study, the total hydropower potential of the country is es...
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New Challenges and Strategies in Defense of Land and Territory
What is happening with the land and natural wealth around the world, and to the people who depend on them? How are people responding to these trends, threats, and challenges?In ...
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Domestic violence of Cambodia, provincial level (2010)
Province-level data is derived from the Commune Database, produced by the NCDD (National Committee for Subnational Democratic Development). This file contains excerpts of the Da...
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Land degradetion in Laos: materiality and discourses
Buidling on recent on debates related environemtnal change and knowledge production, theis paper examines the social construction and the political outcomes of the current offic...
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Neends and potental for rural youth development in Lao PDR 2006.
This report reflects the findings of a study looking at how rural youth, and thus rural communities, are missing out on development opportunities more readily available to urban...