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Rosewood Robbery - the Case for Thailand to List Rosewood on CITES
Illegal and unsustainable rosewood logging is the major threat to Thailand’s limited remaining forests, particularly in the northeast regions. Unprecedented demand for luxury ‘H...
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Making the Case: Effective Public Participation is Good for Business in the Mekong Region
This report attempts to fill this gap by sharing conversations with company representatives with business in one or more Mekong country (Cambodia, Laos PDR, Myanmar, Thailand ...
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Transitioning from the MDGs to the SDGs
This report synthesizes the main lessons learned from the MDG Reviews conducted by the UN System Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB) between April 2013 and November 20...
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Regional Road Map for Implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific
The countries of Asia and the Pacific have developed a regional road map for implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to facilitate cooperation at the regional l...
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Whats Behind Laos' China Banana Ban?
On April 12, Radio Free Asia cited local government sources as confirming that Lao government orders to shut down environmentally destructive Chinese-owned banana farms, first r...
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A study on the Customary Use Right of Ethnic Communities to Forest and Forest Land in Vietnam
This report presents an overview of ethnic communities in Vietnam, including their history and development, community structure, living space, population and distribution, and t...
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Myanmar analysis of farm production economics
An report prepared by the World Bank in partnership with the Livelihoods and Food Security Multi-Donor Trust Fund on the Myanmar. An analysis of farm production economics publis...
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ADB and the Sustainable Development Goals
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent a universal call to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure peace and prosperity for all. They form part of the 2030 Ag...
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Forest Land Allocation in the Context of Forestry Sector Restructuring: Opportunities for Forestry Development and Upland Livelihood Improvement
The report “Forest Land Allocation in the Context of Forestry Sector Restructuring: Opportunities for Forestry Development and Uplands Livelihood Improvement,” aims to evaluate ...
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Lao Version of FAO’s Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure (VGGT)
FAO published its Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure (VGGT) of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security in 2012. The purpos...
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“Nothing Is Like It Was Before”: The Dynamics between Land-Use and Land-Cover, and Livelihood Strategies in the Northern Vietnam Borderlands
Land uses are changing rapidly in Vietnam’s upland northern borderlands. Regional development platforms such as the Greater Mekong Subregion, state-propelled market integration...
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Natural Resources of Myanmar (Burma): Ownership, Management, Revenue Sharing and Impacts
This research paper explores the natural resource governance Myanmar specifically the governance of oil and gas extraction in Rakhine State and jade extraction in Kachin State t...
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Progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals
Pursuant to General Assembly resolution 70/1, the Secretary-General, in cooperation with the United Nations system, has the honor to submit the report on progress towards the S...
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Decree on the Comprehensive Epidemiology No. 206 / April 27, 2007.
This decree identifies measures and measures to control the epidemic of animals in a uniform manner throughout the country.
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Land degradetion in Laos: materiality and discourses
what is implicit in a number of governmental reports is that upland populations are practicing an environmentally-destructive agriculture with no regard for the good common sens...
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Environmental Impact Assessments in Developing Countries: An Opportunity for Greater Environmental Security?
The first half of this Working Paper will give a background of the origins and development of environmental impact assessments. The second half of the paper will focus on enviro...
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After the Boom: Responding to Falling Rubber Prices in Northern Laos
This study examines responses to this price drop by Lao rubber growers and state institutions in northern Laos. It also examines the reasons that prices are what they are, given...
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Smallholder market participation, structural transformation and inclusive growth in Lao People’s Democratic Republic
This report is an outcome of a collaborative effort between CAPSA and the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of Lao PDR, aimed at understanding the nature of struc...
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Use of GIS tools for environmental conflict resolution at Map Ta Phut industrial zone in Thailand
This paper presents an analysis of an environmental conflict that arose in a Thai industrial zone. The authors analyse state policies to resolve the conflict, and draw lessons f...
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Climate change and institutional adaptation in transboundary river basins
A research paper by Jochen Hinkel and Timo Menniken on institutional adaptation to the effects of climate change in management of transboundary river basins, published in 2007 ...