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Outline of the major functions and responsibilities of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry's Department of Agricultural Land Management. Outlines a basic framework for natu...

Building on recent debates related to environment change an knowledge production, this paper examines the social construction and political outcomes of the current official disc...

this study takes a cross-border and comparative perspective in examining Luang Namtha’s rubber boom, focusing on stakeholder relationships (between villagers, gov...

The Poverty-Environment Initiative (PEI) in Lao PDR aims to strengthen capacity of targeted central and provincial authorities to integrate poverty-environment concerns and opp...

revised-gender-guidelines

The author researches land titling issues, using the case studies of Bolivia and Laos to explore women's difficulties in acquiring rights to land, involvement of CSOs in titling...

Lao-CSOs have been established mainly in form of Professional Organizations such as: Journalists Association, Writers Association, Musician Association, and Engineering Associa...

The goals of the National Climate Change Strategy are aligned with vision of sustainable development,poverty reduction,enhanced quality of the natuml environment, and strengt...

The Government of Lao PDR is determined to eradicate extreme poverty and move beyond the category of Least Developed Country by the year 2020. The uplands and upper watershed ca...

In order to lift Laos out of its ‘Least Developed Country’ status by 2020, the government has been pursuing a five-year strategy (2011-2015) of industrialisation and modernisati...

This chapter aims to illustrate the land use and livelihoods of Kmhmu ’upland farmers in Pak Beng, identify the key challenges facing the local communities and make sugges...

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

This research could not have been conducted without the backing and cooperation from Centre for Research and Information on Land and Natural Resources (CRILNR), National Land ...

While there has been an increase in awareness about issues around ethnic equity and sensitivity in Laos over the last twenty years, the overall situation is still of great conc...

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...

Lao PDR is a large country compared to its population. The landscape is rich in natural resources, providing people a place to live and raw materials for production. Well-manage...

The Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) is a land-locked, ethnically diverse and mountainous country with an estimated population at 6.8 million. It has the distinctio...

Lao PDR is largely an agrarian society and its agro-biodiversity resources not only support national social and economic development generally, but also underpin rural livelihoo...

The key objectives of the workshop were:To learn from the experience of other countries how they have dealt with the question of state, private and community ownership over land...

In-depth case study of a series of households that began use of mechanized seeding, measuring impact on agricultural output.