479 datasets found

Cambodia has experienced rapid economic growth over the last decade. Cambodian gross domestic product (GDP) grew at an average annual rate of over eight percent between 2000 and...

The UN-REDD Programme currently supports 64 partner countries across Africa, Asia-Pacific and Latin America and the Caribbean.

A team of eight experts has conducted an independent evaluation of eleven years (2004-2014) of implementation of the EU Action Plan on Forest Law Enforcement Governance and Trad...

For many people, REDD+ is about projects that save forests. In reality, however, REDD+ has never been about protecting forests and also no longer really is about projects but ab...

This workshop was a culmination of a process to better understand the corn value chain in Oudomxay and China. In 2005, The Socio-economic research component of the Lao Swedish U...

This study builds on the results of existing research and links to ongoing research in contract farming to generate policy-relevant information. The overall goal of this study ...

Decree of the Prime Minister on the Role and Scope of the Management Board of Foreign Investment at the Central and Local Level No. 64 / NOV 23rd, 2003

A brief overview of foreign investment in Laos, predominantly from China, but also from other neighboring countries, and their effect on Laos' development, politics, and percept...

Chinese companies have played a key role in the development of the plantation in-dustry and other agribusiness sectors (rubber, corn, sugarcane, cassava, banana, watermelon, e...

Analyzes a foreign investment into a Lao hydro power project, and its impact on local population. Provides recommendations on conducting environmental impact studies and engagin...

Assessment of the State Land Lease Concessions Inventory (SLLCI), a database of land-based investment in Laos containing information of area, capital, and investment origin.

Lao PDR official document on guidelines and goals for partnerships with international development organizations.

Research on foreign direct investment (FDI) in land in Lao PDR, including the policy and legal frameworks, forms of investment, and driving factors of FDI, and recommendations f...

This report draws on the Land Matrix database to analyze and better understand the phenomenon of large-scale agricultural land deals. It focuses on: » land acquisitions or inve...

South-South Cooperation is ‘A process whereby two or more developing countries pursue their individual and/or shared national capacity development objectives through exchanges o...

This Development Finance and Aid Assessment (DFAA) was commissioned by the Ministry of Planning and Investment, with the support of the United Nations Development Programme (UND...

The goal of this research was to study all relevant aspects of the cultivation of para rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) as well as the production and marketing of latex in Luang Nam ...

A presentation of research findings regarding Chinese tree plantation concessions in the Lao PDR

This paper aims to provide policy makers with an analysis of information recently gathered in Laos concerning land concessions, hoping to assist them in their decision making.

A training manual by James Ramsay on Sustaining river basin ecosystems in hydropower development, published in Vientiane, Laos by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusamm...