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Baseline on villages’ livelihood and vulnerability status 2016
Understanding village trajectories - Characterizing village diversity - Assessing vulnerability - Identifying leverage point to increaseresilience
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Measuring participation: Case studies on village land use planning in northern Lao PDR
A primary objective of land use planning (LUP) is the establish-ment of sustainable development. As such, LUP has triggered debates on social and environmental values and on the...
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Decree on establishment and activities of river basin committee.
This decree defines the location, mandate, duties, jurisdictions, organizational structure and working methodology of the River Basin Committee to facilitate and ensure the...
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An agent-based model of agricultural innovation, land-cover change and household inequality: The transition from Swidden cultivation to rubber plantations in Laos PDR 2011
this article examine the transition from shifting cultivation to rubber production for a study area in Trthern Lao
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The evolution of teak grower groups in Luang Prabang, Lao PDR: An action research approach 2016
The Grower Group subcomponent of this project (Objective 1.3A) aims to: Identify and test what forms of grower organisation are feasible and sustainable, and will improve...
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Instruction as regards the implementation of decree on state-owned land approval for lease or concession.
To expand and ensure the implementation on lease or concession management of state-owned land in conformity of and in accordance with law and decree on...
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Contract farming in Lao PDR: cases and questions
During the past five years there has been a rapid rise in contract farming in Lao PDR. This report takes a look at what is actually happening in different parts of the...
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Voice of an upland people:: A Look into the Taoy community and participatory development in Southern Laos
This research on the voices of an upland people, a look into the Taoy community and participatory development in Southern Laos, was conducted in the fulfillment of the...
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Socio-economic baseline study computerised database of survey
This report describes the computerised database of the Household Survey carried out for the Socio-economic Baseline Study (SEBS) of the Land Titling Project-1. The survey was...
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The World Bank, hydropower-based poverty alleviation and indigenous peoples.
Impoverishment by projects whose raison d’etre is to reduce poverty is unacceptable, yet it occurs in many projects, time and time again... Unfortunately, while we battle...
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Pro-poor Policy analysis on rubber production for smallholder livelihoods in Lao PDR 2016
In Laos, the rubber plantation has booming since 2000s that influenced by the world demanding for rubber,particular huge rubber demand from China and India. While the market for...
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Participatory land use planning mnual village and village cluster levels – Draft, March 2009
The Family Land Tenure Analysis Form would allow the DLMA to see how long a parcel has been developed, whether the type of land is “permanent” or “non permanent”, and any...
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Reconceptualizing resettlement along the Nam Gnouang River in Laos 2016.
Rooted in the transitions of the Nam Gnouang River into a reser-voir and the four villages into one resettlement site, this article illustrates the different (political)...
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Toward sustain able forest management: An ndustry perspective
Responsible and sustainable management driven by proper valuation of wood resources, the development of value adding industries, and better recognition and enhancement of the...
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Comprehensive Food Security and Vulnerability Analysis (CFSVA)
This is the first country-wide food security study undertaken in the Lao PDR. Its purpose is to provide WFP and its partners with a good understanding of the nature...
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Collaborative Governance improves management effectiveness of Hin Nam No National protected area in central Lao PDR 2016
According to IUCN’s instructions, the described ‘building blocks’ were formulated to try to follow a logical sequence and make parts of the ‘solution’...
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Social Development Alliance Association (SODA) poverty in Lao PDR poverty, gender and ethnicity in agriculture sector in the Nam Ngum River Basin July 2015
This poverty research report presents a range of sex-disaggregated data in order to analyze the poverty situation at the national level and local differences between male and...
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Decree on compensation and resettlement management in development projects 2016
This Decree provides principles, regulations and standards on the management, monitoring of compensation of losses and the management of resettlement activities in order to...
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Manual participatory agriculture and forest land use planning at village and village cluster levels
The objective of this MOU is to formalize arrangements between the parties regarding development, dissemination and use of the manual (the Manual) on participatory...
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A critical analysis of the legal framework for human trafficking in Laos PDR
Laos is a mountainous, landlocked country of 5.76 million people and is bordered by China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and Burma.12 Being situated in the Asia Pacific region,...