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  • Building up land concession inventories: The case of Lao PDR

    The national inventory of land purchases and leases in Lao PDR is unique in providing comprehensive in-depth analysis of the extent and impacts of large scale land acquisitions ...

  • Agrarian land-use transformation in northern Laos

    Farmers in northern Laos have been experiencing a rapid transformation from subsistence agricultural production to intensive cash crop cultivation over the last decade....

  • Timber markets and trade between Laos and Vietnam: A commodity chain analysis of Vietnamese driven timber flow

    This study examines the timber trade between Laos and Vietnam, exploring power and political dynamics of the trade between the two countries. The study has adopted a commodity c...

  • Fundamentals of viable community forestry business models: Preliminary research findings

    Research from seven countries (Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Nepal, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam) in the Asia-Pacific region shows that sustainable practices are inhere...

  • Power, progress and impoverishment: Plantations, hydropower, ecological change and community transformation in Hinboun District, Lao PDR

    This report documents the contemporary ecological, social and economic transformations occurring in one village in Lao PDR’s central Khammouane province under multiple sources o...

  • Food and nutrition security atlas of Lao PDR

    In the context of a growing body of data across multiple sectors in Lao PDR, the Food and Nutrition Security Atlas was published with the aim of providing an up-to-date synthesi...

  • Land, rubber and people: Rapid agrarian changes and responses in Southern Laos

    This study examines rubber development in Bachiengchaleunsouk (Bachieng) District, Champasak Province, southern Laos, and argues these developments are largely benefiting fore...

  • Integrating wetland ecosystem values into urban planning: The case of That Luang Marsh, Vientiane Lao PDR

    Integrating Wetland Ecosystem Values into Urban Planning: The Case of That Luang Marsh, is a joint study conducted by IUCN, WWF, the Lao National Mekong Committee, and the Scien...

  • Governing land for women and men

    A technical guide to support the achievement of responsible gender-equitable governance of land tenure

  • 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.

  • Exploring local leadership in Lao-based INGOs

    The aim of this study is to understand how local leadership development is operationalised in the INGO sector in the social context of Laos. Until recently, leadership has been ...

  • Final report of the social assessment for the six served provinces and two unserved provinces of the Lao PDR land titling project

    A social assessment study of the provinces affected in the Government of Laos' land titling project. Includes findings and issues of the social assessment, implications to proje...

  • 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.

  • Direction of agricultural and forestry development plans by 2020-2010 and five-year V plan (2001-2005)

    Over the past years, especially during the period of implementation of the Resolution of the Sixth General Assembly, the Fourth Economic and Social Development Plan (1996-2000),...

  • Supporting the resolution of tenure-related disputes

    This lesson will introduce a range of dispute resolution mechanisms that can contribute to a coherent dispute resolution system. We will review their relative advantages and dra...

  • Biodiversity assessment of the Mekong River in northern Lao PDR: A follow up study

    The follow-up scoping survey presented in this report builds on the first rapid biodiversity scoping study of the upper stretches of the Mekong conducted in February 2003. It is...

  • Efficient management for sustainable intensification of rice-based farming systems

    A case study of the Save and Grow project's work and successes in sustainably intensifying rice production in Laos, Indonesia, and the Philippines.

  • 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.

  • 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...

  • Resettlement impacts of Nam Ngum 2 hydro-power project on community culture

    This report examines the resettlement of people for Nam Ngum 2, a 615-megawatt hydroelectric dam in central Lao PDR. The author identifies several human and environmental rights...