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decree on poverty and development criteria
decree on poverty and development criteria
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manual-medicinal-plants
this handbook develop for improve health and livelihood concern, So main community must use natural resource by deliver from the generation, there is several different group and...
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Lao Labor Migration and Remittance 2014
Lao Labor Migration and Remittance 2014
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Land concession induced livelihood changes: Research on land and livelihood impacts from land concession from mono-culture tree plantation
This research was done to contribute to the debate on the economic concession model by providing local people's perspectives and experiences of the plantations, as well as to fo...
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Gender and poverty issues in the forest regions of northern Lao PDR
In this study, Participatory Poverty Assessment (livelihood matrix, food seasonal calendars, mobility maps, SWOT analysis and problem cause analysis) was conducted in the 12 pro...
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Turning land into capital: A review of recent research on land concessions for investment in Lao PDR
A review of existing literature related to Lao PDR's "Turning Land into Capital" policy and the status of land concessions and investment in the country. Part 1 of 2 in this rep...
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Lao PDR environment monitor
The Lao Environment Monitor is the first of a series of monitors presenting a snapshot of environmental status and key trends and challenges in Lao PDR.
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Turning land into capital a review of recent research on land concessions for investment in Lao PDR part 1 of 2 – Existing literature
A land concession is the limited conceding of a land-based right (or rights) by the state to an investor in order to lower the investor’s assumed risk to a level that will permi...
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Baseline study 2, LAO PDR: Overview of forest governance, markets and trade
Key problem areas for Lao forest management include unsustainable harvesting levels associated with large infrastructure and mega -project forest conversions, illegal and over-q...
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Experience of the Community-based Watershed Management Project in Pakbeng District, Oudomxay Province LIWG workshop (14 Jan 2014) Towards communal land registration and titling Satomi HIGASHI, Mekong
to make recommendations to Pakbeng DAFO about impacts of individual land titling on swidden farmers’ livelihoods.
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National policy environmental and social sustainability of the Hydropower sector in lao PDR, No.561 CP
Sustainable development of the hydro-power sector is founded on three important principles: (a) economic sustainability relies upon the maintenance of the renewable resource ba...
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Women's work and market hierarchies along the border of Lao PDR December 2004
This article is based on two studies on border trade between Thailand and Laos. The first focuses on cotton weaving along the borders of Sayaboury province, Lao PDR and Nan ...
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Subsistence oriented rice framing in the rainfed lowlands of central and southern Laos-a policy dilemma
The overwhelming impression from this research is that Lao farmers are caught up in, and contributing to, a much larger regional process of agrarian transition which government ...
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The people and their river, the World Bank and its Dam: Revisiting the Xe bang fai river in Laos
According to the World Bank, ‘[NT2] demonstrates that hydro power projects can be designed and implemented to deliver sustainable outcomes through state-of-the-art environment...
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Knowledge Capitalization on the Conservation Agriculture Development Fund in Sayaboury Province, April 2015
Between 2001 and 2009, the four districts of Boten, Kenthao, Paklay and Thongmixay in southern Sayaboury Province have been targeted by two AFD-funded projects dealing with res...
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Decree on the organization and operation of the Ministry of agriculture and forestry, 262/2012
Decree on the organization and operation of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
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Lao PDR investment climate assessment 2014: Policy uncertainty in the midst of a natural resources boom
The World Bank undertakes periodic Investment Climate Assessments in order to provide policymakers with a better understanding of how the private sector is performing and where ...
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Decision of the Prime minister on the adoption of the forest management framework
Decision of the Prime minister on the adoption of the forest management framework
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Investment and access to land and natural resources: Challenges in promoting sustainable development
land concessions have accumulated their fair share of criticisms and challenges
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Land degradetion in Laos: materiality and discourses
what is implicit in a number of governmental reports is that upland populations are practicing an environmentally-destructive agriculture with no regard for the good common sens...