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What does recent evidence tell us about poverty in Lao PDR
Poverty continues to decline in Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR). Recent estimates from the Laos Expenditure and Consumption Survey (LECS 5) show that the pro portion of...
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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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Local Initiatives to link farmers to markets in upland Laos
Throughout Laos, local government and aid-supported rural development projects are promoting schemes to increase rural production. Only a few organizations have tried to tackle ...
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Trends in the governance sector of the Lao PDR
This study on trends in the governance sector in the Lao PDR will examine the main institutions of government as well as key processes of governance including justice, decentral...
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Lao PDR economic monitor
The government continued to make progress with the overall public finance management framework, including issuing a decree on MOF restructuring and the approval of a new chart o...
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Draft report on worldwide certified cattle farming system analysis for Xieng Khouang province
The small-scale agro-enterprise development Upland (SADU) project has been undertaken to examine the market-chain for cattle and buffalo in Xieng Khouang province and to pilot a...
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INGO key messages for the 2014 round table implementation meeting
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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
Climate change adaptation; Landscape approach; Laos
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No success like failure: Policy versus reality in the Lao forestry sector
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
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
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
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
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
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...