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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...

Explain that having completed in detail the learning block for the application of FPIC for REDD+, you will now try to explore further how this will work ...

Most forests (84%) and other wooded lands (90%) worldwide are officially under public ownership. In the developing countries in Africa and Asia, forests are almost entirely unde...

Lao PDR has become the main strategic area in which foreign investors invest more. And the rate of concessions of foreign investors since the year 200 has increased rapidly.

Definition of "farm" and upland agriculture area

Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry's Decision on the Right to Use Traditional Forest Resources

Lao PDR is characterized by an abundance of natural resources and a small population of 5.6 million, the vast majority of whom live in rural areas and are dependent on subsiste...

The key environmental concern related to this sector is wastewater. Wastewater discharge does not currently have a significant environmental impact due to the small size of th...

The impacts of project introduced agriculture and livestock development activities become visible in terms of increasing in paddy areas, decreasing in shifting rice cultivation ...

Securing Land Rights in rural areas as a basis for increased economic productivity and land tenure security •to do the Land registration soon •Land use planning / land zonin...

The Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR) is one of the poorest countries in South East Asia. Yet it has great potential for hydropower development, and the Government of Lao...

The diameter distribution is certainly affected by harvesting. Experienced harvesters will tend to fell all trees encountered with DBH.50 cm as well as fruit-bearing trees becau...