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Understanding village trajectories - Characterizing village diversity - Assessing vulnerability - Identifying leverage point to increaseresilience

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...

This decree defines the location, mandate, duties, jurisdictions, organizational structure and working methodology of the River Basin Committee to facilitate and ensure the...

this article examine the transition from shifting cultivation to rubber production for a study area in Trthern Lao

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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)...

Responsible and sustainable management driven by proper valuation of wood resources, the development of value adding industries, and better recognition and enhancement of the...

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...

According to IUCN’s instructions, the described ‘building blocks’ were formulated to try to follow a logical sequence and make parts of the ‘solution’...

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...

This Decree provides principles, regulations and standards on the management, monitoring of compensation of losses and the management of resettlement activities in order to...

The objective of this MOU is to formalize arrangements between the parties regarding development, dissemination and use of the manual (the Manual) on participatory...

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,...