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This impact study reports on the impact of the Lao-IRRI Project at the farm and national levels. The major impact indicators considered are increases in rice production and inco...

This report covers a mission conducted during the period May 4 to May 12, 2002 for the Integrated Upland Agricultural Research Project (IUARP), Luang Prabhang Province, Laos.

A presentation to a workshop of the Land Information Working Group on a watershed management and communal land titling project in Oudomxay province.

A presentation on integrating natural resource management practices across NGO work in multiple provinces in Laos. Includes information about the Clinical Legal Education office...

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 concessio...

This report examines how this has happened using both a secondary literature review and firsthand fieldwork data.

Climate change adaptation; Landscape approach; Laos

Benjamin Hodgdon chronicles the experience of an NGO-supported project recently discontinued by the Lao government to highlight the ongoing serious problems plaguing Laos’ produ...

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

An efficient Model for systematic Land Registration (SLR) is approved design & test SLR Model based on practical land registration activities in LNT; training in survey technolo...

The purpose of this research is to attempt to quantitatively confirm or refute a qualitative impression of sustainability of swidden cultivation in Nakai-Nam Theun national prot...

A presentation of the Land Information Working Group discussing issues related to communal land and policy recommendations for communal land titling and the national land policy.

A project outline for a rubber plantation in Bolikhamxay province, including overview of social and environmental issues in the project area, government policies and involvement...

This paper aims to analyze the spatial distribution of mining and hydro projects in Lao PDR.

The purpose of this technical booklet is to explain the procedures, methods and practices for participatory forest and land use zoning as tested and practiced in target areas of...

The focus of this study is on the smaller areas (<1 to 10 ha) that are being developed by farmers into paddy land. The objectives of the study were to understand 1) why farmers ...

The Community Procurement Manual and related forms used for the sub-project implementations are intended in helping the Communities to carry out the procurements under the sub-p...

Poverty is prevalent among small farms in transition economies such as the Lao PDR, where market failures prevail and subsistence production is the norm. Contract farming is eme...

Aid officials need to focus less on what they consider expediency and should be willing to consider suspending or terminating involvement in specific projects that are causing ...

This report is a review and analysis of rice production policy in Laos and its effect on smallholder farmers, through a pro-poor lens. It also analyzes the rice value chain for ...