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Successful plantation program for wood fibre, rubber and high quality, hardwood are underpinned by strong program of R&D

Farming system is strongly influenced by the external rural environment, including policies and institutions, markets and information linkages (FAO and World Bank, 2001: 9). B...

In Sangthong, an approved management plan for the village forest was already in place, providing information about the forest land, and defining sustainable harvest levels

One conclusion that remains from Ankarfjärd and Kegl (1998) is that the handling of fire needs to be controlled in a better way by some tappers. The concentration of affected ...

To report to members about the involvement of Lao CSO FLEGT committees in the process, To have consultation with Lao CSO FLEGT members on the activities of the network in FLEGT,...

Notification of banning harvesting and storage of tree

Decree on the adoption and promulgation of the forestry strategy of Lao PDR

The comparative and competitive advantages of investing in Laos, as outlined by the DDFI, are: Political, economic and financial stability; Abundant water resources, rich minera...

Since the best coffee land is already being farmed by the smallholders, some of the land allocated to the companies by the government is invariably already under cultivat...

Forest-based climate change mitigation approaches aim to reduce human-induced greenhouse gas emissions and to increase the levels of stored and sequestrated carbon sinks. Ensuri...

Government advisory on planting registration

Use of forest resources according to customary rights

Although rubber is produced successfully in some marginal environment–as many hardy clones have been developed – there are also numerous reports of failures associated with en...

Meeting regional and global demands for rubber: A key to poverty alleviation in Lao PDR 2008

The evidence from the study villages indicates a sharp con-tradiction between the government’s policy of rice intensifi-cation and the trajectories being pursued by rice-growing...

The purpose of this brief report is to gather, review and analyze the current 1 legislation relevant to collective property, to make suggestions for modifications to the Right...

The results are sensitive to the opportunity cost of the labor released as a result of terrace construction.The profitability of terrace construction increases rap-idly with the...

In terms of trade, Lao PDR has trade relations with many countries. At present, Laos exports to more than 70 countries around the world worth USD 1602 million in the fiscal year...

Summary of activities of income and expenditure on environmental conservation fund

This article is concerned with the newest incarnation of community forestry in Laos, called “participatory sus-tainable forest management,” or PSFM. In essence, this type of com...