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The report of a study to assess household and community vulnerability to floods in Attapeu Province, Laos. This study is one of three assessing the potential consequences of...

This report presents the challenges that hydropower development poses to rural livelihoods and fragile ecosystems, and details the specific impacts caused by Lao dam projects....

This paper describes the interventions undertaken in the Doe Mao Salong watershed in an effort to restore the landscape and improve the livelihoods of local communities....

The Journal of Forest and Livelihood aims to inform environmental policy process by facilitating dialogue among politicians, professionals, activists, researchers and policy makers

This research was done to contribute to the debate on the economic concession model by providing local people's perspectives and experiences of the plantations, as well as to...

This paper seeks to add to the growing literature on land concessions by examining a recent, high-level concession as a means of understanding three aspects related to...

Purpose to set up Community Forestry is to protect rights on land/forest and to protect precious spieces

To provide technical training and practical training to project staff and regular staff

Over the last decade considerable research has been conducted on the development and the impacts of large-scale economic land concession s for plantations in Laos and Cambodia.

Importance of natural resources of land, water and forests for human life

The purpose of this background paper is to provide Oxfam with information, analysis and recommendations on a number of land-related issues in Vietnam which can then be used to...

In the course of conducting this research many people contributed substantial assistance. We wish to thank the many villagers, traders, townspeople who gave so freely of...

Developing a better living environment.

Despite rapid economic, social and political change in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR) in recent decades, the cultivation of glutinous rice for subsistence remains...

Rural Development in Mountainous Ares of Northern Lao PDR (RDMA)

Secure access to natural resources through systems of common property forms the basis for the livelihoods of many of the world’s poor.

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

n the main land of Southeast Asia, deforestation is a major constraint of environmental change, and the changing of Land-Use and Land-Cover always influence by the government...

Over the last months, USAID LEAF has been supporting rural villages in Laos in planning to reforest areas that have been subject to extensive deforestation as a result of...

Government efforts to industrialise and modernise the Lao economy through intensive resource development are having adverse effects on rural livelihoods as resources are...