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The purpose of developing the scenarios of climate change, sea level rise for Vietnam is to provide the basic information of the future trend of climate change and sea level in ...

Community-based forest management in Lao PDR lacks strong legal standing. However, the legal revision process currently underway promises increased rights for communities over...

To identify the natural Benzoin distribution area (Mapping) in Laos with its yield capacity, To investigate and examine the best practise of silvicuture techniques in term of pl...

The 2018 edition of The State of the World’s Forests aims to do just that, presenting new information to help recognize these interlinkages and enhance our understanding of how ...

Indigenous people play a key role in the domestication, conservation and adaptation of genetic resources and agricultural biodiversity, not just for their immediate surroundings...

The overall objective of the Forestry Strategy 2020 is to contribute to achieve the indicative targets of the national socio-economic plans, to provide goods and ...

This transport sector assessment, strategy, and road map (ASR) guides the formulation of Asian Development Bank (ADB) assistance to the transport sector in the Lao People’s Demo...

A set of tables showing the development status of power projects in Laos. The document includes projects developed before 2000, those operational, under construction, at the pla...

Myanmar’s Community Forestry programme began in with the Community Forestry Instruction of 1995. Since then over two hundred and fifty Forest User Groups have been formed across...

Discussion paper on the legal framework of state land leases and concessions in Lao PDR. This paper summarizes the relevant laws and regulations and indicate contradictions in t...

This document is one of three main publications of the Global Forest Resources Assessment 2015 (FRA 2015). It contains data for most of the quantitative and Boolean variables c...

The Global Forest Resources Assessment 2010 (FRA 2010) is the most comprehensive assessment of forests and forestry to date - not only in terms of the number of countries and pe...

This is an FAO report. FAO, at the request of its member countries, regularly monitors the world´s forests and their management and uses through the Global Forest Resources Asse...

Kachin State in northern Myanmar is home to many biological hotspots, including subtropical moist forests, hill forests, alpine meadows and broadleaf and conifer forests (Olson ...

For years, traditional laws – or customary laws – in Asia have been eroded. This report argues that remaining customary laws should be retained and discusses the extent to which...

International business transactions have increased dramatically over the years. Investment has increasingly expanded at an unprecedented rate in many countries. These internati...

In Thailand, mangrove forests are claimed for state management, although it is widely recognized that coastal communities access and manage those forests. Skepticism persists wi...

This report makes the case for ending the illegal logging in Burma’s northern forests. Although the management of Burma’s forests is primarily the responsibility of the relev...

This is the third in a series of reports on illegal logging in Burma. It is based on field research carried out between 2005 and 2009 in Kachin State, along the Burma-China bord...

This overview provides information about sanitation, drinking-water and hygiene status in Laos.