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What is food loss and food waste?
Post-harvest losses account for a majority of the food loss sustained in developing countries across Asia and the Pacific region. Between 15 and 50 percent of fruits and vegetab...
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Food security through livestock (cattle and buffalo) production: Case study at Phonxay District, Luang Phabang Province, Lao PDR
Research on livestock production systems in Luang Prabang province, Lao PDR, and the food security implications and opportunities in raising livestock.
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Food security and livelifood improvement through sustainable agriculture and community based natural resource management
Purpose to set up Community Forestry is to protect rights on land/forest and to protect precious spieces
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Food and nutrition security ATLAS of Lao PDR
Malnutrition is a major challenge in Lao PDR. According to recent data, the country remains ’seriously off-track’ for achieving the hunger-related millennium development goals
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Hungry for land: Small farmers feed the world with less than a quarter of all farmland
It is commonly heard today that small farmers produce most of the world's food. But how many of us realise that they are doing this with less than a quarter of the world's farml...
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Round table implementation meeting 2014: Speaking points of the Swiss Delegation
Swiss delegation commentary on a variety of issues, including food security, land management, civil society funding, the Lao PDR Sam Sang policy, unexploded ordnance, etc.
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A political ecology of Jatropha promotion: Elucidating actors, narratives and local reality in the Lao PDR
This thesis aims to analyze the promotion of jatropha-based biofuel production in Laos in regard to policy narratives, the institutionalization of the private sector a...
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Linking food and land tenure security in Lao PDR 2016
This report explores the relationships between land tenure security and food security in Laos, with comparison to other developing countries.
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Strategy for agricultural development 2011-2020
The present Agriculture Development Strategy (ADS) 2011 to 2020 is a long term frame-work for the development of the sector, which is not intended to provide operati...
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Lao PDR: Comprehensive food security and vulnerability analysis
This is the first country-wide food security study undertaken in the Lao PDR. Its purpose is to provide WFP and its partners with a good understanding of the nature and extent o...
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Comprehensive Food Security and Vulnerability Analysis (CFSVA)
This is the first country-wide food security study undertaken in the Lao PDR. Its purpose is to provide WFP and its partners with a good understanding of the nature a...
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Resilient Integrated Food Systems (RIFS) in rural Lao PDR 2016
Production and dissemination of climate information services and advisories on cost-effective adaptation solutions for food and nutrition security at national and provincial levels
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The role of the agriculture sector to promote food security and nutrition in Lao PDR 2016.
The Government has recognized that food security and nutrition are complex issues to tackle and cannot be addressed by any sector alone.Cross-sectoral collaboration is fully e...
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Assessing the evidence on food security interventions in the north of Lao PDR 2016
The concept of food security is complex and encompasses numerous dimensions across its four main pillars: availability, access, utilisation and vulnerability. As a result, devel...
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Dynamics of food security in the uplands of Laos, June 2012
The purpose of this report is to summaries what is already known about the relationships between agricultural commercialization, food security and nutrition in Lao PDR
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Development and effects on food security and livelihood activities of highland Lao farmers February 2007
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...
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Lao Food and Nutrition Security Survey, June, 2016
This summary report is based on the Lao PDR Food and Nutrition Security Survey (FNSS), conducted in 2015 by the Ministry of Health and the Lao Statistics Bureau of the Ministry ...
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Rice Land Designation Policy in Vietnam and the Implications of Policy Reform for Food Security and Economic Welfare
With the aim of promoting national food security, the Vietnamese government enforces the designation of around 35 per cent of agricultural land strictly for paddy rice cultivati...
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Project for food security and livelifood improvement through sustainable agriculture and community based natural resource management
Project for Food Security and Livelihood Improvement through Sustainable Agriculture and Community based Natural Resource Management
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Edible insects in Lao PDR - Building on traditions to enhance food security 2014
The Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) is a rugged, mountainous, landlocked country, with relatively weak infrastructure. As such, the country faces numerous challenges ...