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There were serious outbreaks in the uplands in the wet seasons of 2008 and 2009 that led to un-bearable conditions for rural families (World Food Programme, 2009). Houaphanh...

The aim of this thesis is to understand and explain the gendered everyday lives in the village of HatNyao in Northern Laos in relation to rubber cultiva-tion. By using an...

Even though land acquisitions for tree plantations, agricultural commodities and mineral extraction contribute to gross national revenue, such investments also have negative...

This note was prepared by Nina Fenton and Magnus Lindelow. The GIS analysis was provided by Andreas Heinimann and Ian Thomas, of the Swiss National...

This study on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) was commissioned by GIZ and BGR to inform the work of the Lao-German development cooperation programme‘ Economic...

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Community based natural resource management became increasingly important in Laos during the 1990s. The Land and Forest Allocation (LFA) is a landmark reform...

2016, the LAO PDR is joining this trend in launching its GI registration sys tem and in preparing to welcome both national and international GI applications in the...

Demonstrate on farm cultivation in southern districts of Phongsaly province to improve productivity of cardamom cultivation (different sites, shading, establishment, density,...

Rubber development in Ban Hat Nyao was a complex process involving community, government and market actors. Rubber has complicated land management, increasing...

In the context of a global rush for natural resources, the Northern Uplands of Laos have been regarded as one of the last resource frontiers to be incorporated into the regional...

t is notably argued that forest clearing increases rainfall runoff which, in turn, fosters soil erosion. Increased runoff also alters hydrological regimes and increases the...

Smallholder-based production with low productivity; minimal farmer experience with modern agriculture technologies and marketing, Post-harvest loss still high and lack of...

This paper shows how land concessions in Laos, and global land grabbing more broadly, can be analyzed through various lenses of accumulation-, dispossession- and...

Laos, officially the Lao People’s Democratic Republic is a mountainous, land-locked state, identified as one of the world’s Least Developed Countries (LDC).

Guideline of the Forestry Department on the principle of timber harvesting in the production forest

This article examines changing contexts and emerging processes related to “land grabbing.” In particular, it uses the case of Laos to analyze the driving forces behind land...

Indigenous peoples’ rights to lands, territories, and resources

Resolution of the national assembly session on land management and use

This short presentation in 7 slides provides in a few minutes an overview of the Bamboo Project implemented in 2011-2014 in Huaphan Province