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A land concession is the limited conceding of a land-based right (or rights) by the state to an investor in order to lower the investor’s assumed risk to a level that will...

Key problem areas for Lao forest management include unsustainable harvesting levels associated with large infrastructure and mega -project forest conversions, illegal and...

to make recommendations to Pakbeng DAFO about impacts of individual land titling on swidden farmers’ livelihoods.

Sustainable development of the hydro-power sector is founded on three important principles: (a) economic sustainability relies upon the maintenance of the renewable resource...

This article is based on two studies on border trade between Thailand and Laos. The first focuses on cotton weaving along the borders of Sayaboury province, Lao PDR and Nan...

The overwhelming impression from this research is that Lao farmers are caught up in, and contributing to, a much larger regional process of agrarian transition which government...

According to the World Bank, ‘[NT2] demonstrates that hydro power projects can be designed and implemented to deliver sustainable outcomes through state-of-the-art environmental...

Between 2001 and 2009, the four districts of Boten, Kenthao, Paklay and Thongmixay in southern Sayaboury Province have been targeted by two AFD-funded projects dealing with...

Decree on the organization and operation of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry

The World Bank undertakes periodic Investment Climate Assessments in order to provide policymakers with a better understanding of how the private sector is performing and where...

Decision of the Prime minister on the adoption of the forest management framework

land concessions have accumulated their fair share of criticisms and challenges

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...

Decree on the determination of 14 production areas in 5 provinces

The aim of this study is to understand how local leadership development is operationalised in the INGO sector in the social context of Laos. Until recently, leadership has been...

Almost 71,000 children age 6-13 years, 6.5 percent of this age group, are in employment in Laos according to 2010 Laos Labour Force and Child Labour Survey (LFCLS...

Use uniforms and markers for forest inspection.

Field data showed that the productivity of the rice line is strongly influenced by the nature of the flood event; whether it took place during the growth of the crop, and the...

Moving wildlife through Laos must requires the Provincial and capital Forest Inspectorate to strictly comply with the Law on Aquatic Animals and Wildlife

This report is to provide information on the effects of analysis and identification of ecological and forest ecosystems in the city, especially socioeconomic data and...