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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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Foreign direct investment and knowledge transfer in Laos
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...
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Summary of activities of income and expenditure on environmental conservation fund
Summary of activities of income and expenditure on environmental conservation fund
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Policy versus reality in the Lao forestry sector
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...
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Good governance of land and natural resources balancing local and global interests
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 ...
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Tropicl forest report
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...
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Economic and environmental assessments of industrial plantation projects in Laos
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.
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Definition of "farm" and upland agriculture area
Definition of "farm" and upland agriculture area
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Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry's Decision on the Right to Use Traditional Forest Resources
Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry's Decision on the Right to Use Traditional Forest Resources
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Rapid trade and environment assessment (RTEA)
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...
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Environmental impacts of trade liberalization in the silk handicrafts sector of the Lao PDR
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...
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Marketing and domestication of NTFPs in north Phonsali three districts July 2005
The impacts of project introduced agriculture and livestock development activities become visible in terms of increasing in paddy areas, decreasing in shifting rice cultivation ...
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Land management in Lao 2012 ASIA Land forum
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...
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Hydropower-induced displacement and resettlement in the Lao PDR
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...
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Does commercialization of a non-timber forest product reduce ecological impact? A case study of the Critically EndangeredAquilaria crassna in LaoPDR
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...
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Decree on environment impact assessment 2010
Environmental impact assessment (EIA) means studying, surveying, researching- analysing and estimating of possible positive and negative impacts on the environment and society...
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Recommendations from the Department of Forestry on the establishment of economic and technical aspects of forest plantation and forestry products.
Recommendations from the Department of Forestry on the establishment of economic and technical aspects of forest plantation and forestry products.
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Comments on the suspension of consideration and approval of new investment projects for exploration and mineral exploration, rubber
Comments on the suspension of consideration and approval of new investment projects for exploration and mineral exploration, rubber
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Laos regulatory impact assessment (RIA) 2013
To address this requires better consideration of the purpose, impacts and compliance/enforcement costs of regulations.
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n the main land of Southeast Asia, deforestation is a major constraint of environmental change, and the changing of Land-Use and Land-Cover always influence by the government po...