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Decision No. 0376 / CP of the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry dated 12/05/2005 on the appointment of the Secretariat of the Forest Development and Forestry Development Fund
The agreement of the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry on the appointment of the Secretariat of the Forest and Forest Resources Development Fund with five members of the Secr...
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Report No. 70 / BC-CP by the Government on the implementation of policies and legislation on land management and use in state forestry enterprises in 2004-2014.
The consultancy report consists of four parts. The first part is general introduction. Second part overview policy on agroforestry since establishment. The third part analyses k...
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Payments for forest environmental services in Vietnam
The basic idea of “payments for environmental services”, or PES, is to create incentives for individuals and communities to protect environmental services by compensating them f...
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Reform of State-Owned Forest Enterprises and Ethnic Minority Land Tenure Security In Vietnam
Paper presented during the World Bank conference on Land 2016. During revolution and national unification, Vietnamese government nationalized agricultural and forest land thro...
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Legal Issues and Legality Barriers for Smallholder Plantation Owners in Lao PDR
These presentation slides are categorized under the theme of enhancing key elements of the value chain for plantation grown wood in Lao PDR
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Can Rubber Tree be Genetically Modified?
This paper discusses the possibilities, progress, and the advantages of a genetically modified rubber tree. Researchers have already identified the genes that would provide drou...
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Development of transgenic teak (Tectona grandis) expressing a cry1AB genefor control of the skeletoniser
Teak (Tectona grandis) is one of the exotic forest species that has been planted in Malaysia. Teak skeletoniser, Paliga damastesalis, causes minor to considerable damage to teak...
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Third National Report on the implementation of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
Since Lao PDR has become a party of the Convention on Biological Diversity on September 20, 1996 and the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety on November 1, 2004. The Lao government ...
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Defintion of Forests: A Review
The definition of word "Forest" differs from region to region, and country to country based on the objectives of management, land use, vegetation type, composition, altitude, e...
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Forests and Forestry in the Greater Mekong Subregion to 2020
In the 12 years since the first Asia-Pacific Forestry Sector Outlook Study was completed in 1998, the region has experienced tremendous changes in nearly every aspect. These cha...
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Rates and Drivers of Mangrove Deforestation in Southeast Asia, 2000-2012
The mangrove forests of Southeast Asia are highly biodiverse and provide multiple ecosystem services upon which millions of people depend. Mangroves enhance fisheries and coasta...
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Timber markets and trade between Laos and Vietnam
The article assesses the timber trade from Laos to Vietnam as inputs for furniture production and the impacts on forest management in Laos in terms of scale. It releases finding...
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An approach to designing pro-poor local REDD+ benefit distribution systems: Lessons from Vietnam
Provides lessons learned from Vietnam's approach to designing a pro-poor REDD+ benefits distribution system for the future development of effective benefit distribution systems ...
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Improving forest governance in the Mekong region -- SOFOR working paper
This report identifies opportunities for regional activities to improve forest governance in the Mekong countries of Cambodia, Lao PDR, Vietnam, Thailand,and Myanmar. The ...
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Conversion timber, forest monitoring, and land-use governance in Cambodia
This report presents an overview of national patterns and practices of forest land clearance during the 2012-2013 dry season as a basis for discussing challenges for Forest Law ...
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Community forestry REDD project: Oddar Meanchey, Cambodia
A brief case study of a community forest REDD project in Oddar Meanchey province. The Cambodian Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) carbon offset project...
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Community tenure rights and REDD+: a review of the Oddar Meanchey community forestry REDD+ project in Cambodia
Tenure rights over land, forest, and carbon have become a contentious issue within REDD+ implementation across the tropics because local communities could be excluded from REDD+...
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Assessment of land use, forest policy and governance in Cambodia
An assessment to identify key drivers of deforestation and/or forest degradation in Cambodia and review past efforts to reduce deforestation and forest degradation, in order to ...
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Forest law enforcement governance and trade in Myanmar: A conflict sensitive analysis
The aim of this paper is to provide a conflict-sensitivity analysis of forest governance in Myanmar to inform all stakeholders involved in the negotiations of the Forest Law Enf...
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Myanmar forestry outlook study
This report analyses the role of the forestry sector in Myanmar. Beginning by outlining the current state of forests and forestry, it then describes trends that will influence f...