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INGO key messages for the 2014 round table implementation meeting
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
INGO network, Lao PDR
2014
The Lao PDR INGO network's key messages, including comments on governance, food security, nutrition, health, education, and economic growth.
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Sowing seeds in lab and field: Socioeconomic impact of the Lao-IRRI rice research and training project
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Samjhana Shrestha, Thiphavong Boupha, & Khamouane Khamphoukeo ,...
2006
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...
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Mission report: Participatory monitoring & evaluation and on-farm research, IUARP LAOS
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Julian Gonsalves, ICRAF
2002
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.
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Experience of the community-based watershed management project in Pakbeng District, Oudomxay Province
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Conference/workshop proceedings and presentations
Satomi Higashi, LIWG, Mekong Watch
2014
A presentation to a workshop of the Land Information Working Group on a watershed management and communal land titling project in Oudomxay province.
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Integrating natural resource management initiative (INRM)
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Conference/workshop proceedings and presentations
Phetsoulaphonh N. Choulatida
2014
A presentation on integrating natural resource management practices across NGO work in multiple provinces in Laos. Includes information about the Clinical Legal Education office...
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Land concessions, land tenure, and livelihood change: Plantation development in Attapeu province, southern Laos
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Miles Kenney-Lazar, Fulbright Scholar & Visiting Research...
2010
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...
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Rubber production in northern Laos: Geographies of growth and contractual diversity
China, Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Miles Kenney-Lazar
2004
This report examines how this has happened using both a secondary literature review and firsthand fieldwork data.
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A landscape approach to co-designing climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies with farming communities
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Conference/workshop proceedings and presentations
Soulikone Chaivanhna, Sisavath Phimmasone , Pascal Lienhard,...
Climate change adaptation; Landscape approach; Laos
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No success like failure: Policy versus reality in the Lao forestry sector
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Benjamin Hodgdon
2007
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...
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Food security and livelifood improvement through sustainable agriculture and community based natural resource management
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Conference/workshop proceedings and presentations
JVC
Purpose to set up Community Forestry is to protect rights on land/forest and to protect precious spieces
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Land tenure security
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Conference/workshop proceedings and presentations
Land Management & Rural Economic Development (LM - RED), GIZ
2014
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...
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Stable forest cover under increasing populations of swidden cultivators in central Laos: The roles of intrinsic culture and extrinsic wildlife trade
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Robichaud, W. G., A. R.E. Sinclair, N. Odarkor-Lanquaye, and B. Klinkenberg
2009
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...
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Enhancing land ownership through communal land titling and the national land policy
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Conference/workshop proceedings and presentations
Nishan Disanayake , Land Information Working Group
2012
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.
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Mitigation of GHG: Rubber based agro-forestry system for sustainable development and poverty reduction in Pakkading, Bolikhamsay Province, Lao PDR
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Lao Thai Hua Rubber Company Limited
2008
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...
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The socio-geography of mining and hydro in Lao PDR
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Fenton, N., and Lindelow, M., Fenton, N., and Lindelow, M.
This paper aims to analyze the spatial distribution of mining and hydro projects in Lao PDR.
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Forest and land use zoning
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Guidelines, instruction manuals, handbooks
Thongphath Leuangkhamma, Somsak Sysomvang and Peter Jones
2001
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...
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Montane paddy rice: Development and effects on food security and livelihood activities of highland lao farmers
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Bruce.L, Karin.T, Sushil.P, etc all, ການຄົ້ນຄວ້າ ແລະ...
2007
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 ...
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Poverty reduction fund - phase II (PRF II) Community procurement manual
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Guidelines, instruction manuals, handbooks
National Procurement Unit, Lao PDR; World Bank
2013
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...
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Rice contract farming in Lao PDR: Moving from subsistence to commercial agriculture
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Setboonsarng, S., Leung, P., Stefan, A., ADB institute
2008
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...
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Aiding or abetting? Internal resettlement and international aid agencies in the Lao PDR
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Ian G. Baird and Bruce Shoemaker, Probe International
2005
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 ...