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Communally used land and resources comprise a critically important dimension of rural livelihoods in the Lao Peoples Democratic Republic (Lao PDR). Communal...

Myanmar is at a crossroad. Given high levels of landlessness and land inequality and low productivity of most small and medium-scale farmers (SMFs), the country is searching for...

A brief summary of the situations and problems facing ethnic groups in the Lao PDR.

An analysis of the the variation in access to justice systems and property rights for women from five ethnic groups in Laos.

A policy framework laid out to address the ways in which the Lao Road Sector Project would impact rural ethnic groups through potential displacement and relocation.

The human demographic history of Mainland Southeast Asia (MSEA) has not been well-studied; in particular there have been very few sequence-based studies of variation in the...

Lao PDR has pursued a top-down approach to economic growth and poverty alleviation that is all too often counterproductive, leading to impoverishment and jeopardising the rights...

This review describes seven sets of processes that influence this context, and therefore shape land and forest tenure in contemporary Laos. These include: 1. Macro-scale forest...

Land investment is booming in Laos, driven especially by demand for natural resources among its rapidly developing neighbours. Yet Laos remains one of the poorest countries in...

A number of programmes and policies in Laos are promoting the internal resettlement of mostly indigenous ethnic minorities from remote highlands to lowland areas and along...

Oxfam Mekong Regional Water Governance program developed Gender Impact Assessment (GIA) manual Balancing the scales: Using gender impact assessment in hydropower development....

It is planned to assess forest cover and land use from 2002 to 2012, which will reveal the current change of land use throughout the country. But it can be assumed that the area...

Lao PDR has been severely affected by floods between July and September 2018. (currently says in recent months). On July 1819, Tropical Storm Son-Tinh caused heavy rains and...

This year ?s annual State of Food Insecurity in the World report takes stock of progress made towards achieving the internationally established Millennium Development Goal...

The 2018 Global Hunger Index (GHI) indicates that the level of hunger and undernutrition worldwide falls into the serious category, at a value of 20.9, down from 29.2 in 2000...

This 2016-2020 National Nutrition Strategy (NNS) has been improved based on the experiences, opportunities, obligations, and important participation of multiple domestic...

The Agriculture Development Strategy 2025 defined the objectives, goals, targets and expected outcomes for the Agriculture Development in development stage of the country. It...

This draft report is the mid-term review of the 8th national socioeconomic development plan (NSEDP), 2016-2020.

This is a project fact sheet for Lao PDR Agriculture Competitiveness Project under World Bank

The Lao Social Indicator Survey (LSIS) II conducted in 2016-2017 is a nation-wide household based survey with a sample size of 23,400, covering all 18 provinces. It aims to...