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Contract farming in Laos: Responding to a rising agricultural trend
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Analysis, discussion papers, and blogs
Dr Robert Cole, Dr Robert Cole, Sengthong Soukhathammavong
2021
This discussion note explores common practices of contract farming (CF) in Laos, which have rapidly expanded for export crops across many provinces since the early 2000s. The an...
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Forest Category in Lao PDR, 2016
Lao People's Democratic Republic
September 9, 2021
Source: Department of Forestry, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry...
Forest Category in Lao PDR, 2016 including national protected areas, national protection forests, and national production forests.
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Decree No. 207 On ethnic group affairs (2020)
Lao People's Democratic Republic
#207/gov
Decree
March 20, 2020
This decree sets out the principles, regulations, and measures on the management of ethnic affairs.
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What is the Forest Cover of Lao PDR? Understanding forest area figures
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Guidelines, instruction manuals, handbooks
FAO; Department of Forestry (Forest Assessments)
2021
This leaflet identifies how the selection of forest definition affect efforts towards achieving the government’s 70 percent forest cover target. What figures for forest area sho...
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On Investment Approval and Land Management Mechanism For Leasing or Concession to Cultivate Crops
Lao People's Democratic Republic
No. 0457/MPI
Instruction
February 27, 2019
This instruction is to implement the Law on Investment Promotion and the Decree of the Prime Minister on controlled businesses and concession activities in Lao PDR, ...
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Planned resettlement, unexpected migrations and cultural trauma in Laos
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Olivier Evrard and Yves Goudineau
2004
Though not officially considered a 'policy' by the Lao government, resettlement of ethnic minorities has become a central feature of the rural development strategy in Laos. Over...
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Challenges and Opportunities of Recognizing and Protecting Customary Tenure Systems in the Lao People's Democratic Republic
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Issue and policy briefs
FAO and MRLG
2019
This policy brief was developed in order to enable a meaningful engagement and policy dialogue with government institutions and other relevant stakeholders about challenges and ...
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Lao Population and Housing Census 2015
Lao People's Democratic Republic
September 23, 2021
Source: Lao DECIDE (http://www.decide.la)
This dataset contains detailed and disaggregated information on demographic and socio-economic characteristics of the country’s population and households at village, district an...
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COVID-19 outbreak prevention, control and response measures in VTE Capital (19-30 September 2021)
Lao People's Democratic Republic
#016/MVC
Order
September 19, 2021
the Vientiane Mayor thus issues the order on the COVID-19 outbreak prevention, control, and response measures in VTE Capital within the period of 19 -30 Sept 2021.
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Higher Education Institutions in Laos
Lao People's Democratic Republic
July 23, 2021
Source:
This dataset shows the 11 public and private higher education institutions in Laos.
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Securing Land Rights of Smallholder Farmers The Secure Access to Land and Resources (SALaR) Project Experience in Laos, the Philippines, and Uganda
Lao People's Democratic Republic, Philippines
Advocacy and promotional materials
Global Land Tool Network/UN-Habitat, VFI (Funded by BMZ/Federal...
2018
The Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM) is considered as one of the pilot land management platforms that has been initiatively developed as capacity building and tool development ...
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Decree on the promulgation of the amended land law, 2019
Lao People's Democratic Republic
261
Law
August 2, 2019
This decree divides into 15 sessions and consists of 188 articles. This law sets out the principles, regulations, measures on the management, monitoring of land works aiming to ...
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Announcement on suspend and review the forest land use certificates approval to individuals, entities or organizations in the area of conservation forest, protection forest, and production forest
Lao People's Democratic Republic
1423/MORE
Action Plan
March 25, 2021
This notice is issued to strengthen the forest land governance and ensure the effectiveness of law implementation of relevant government sectors. Previously, there are many peop...
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Registering property indicator, 2020
Lao People's Democratic Republic
August 18, 2021
Source: Source: World bank, Economic profile, Lao PDR, Doing business...
Four of Laos' property indicators from the World Bank Doing Business report, 2020 (page 26-27). Collated for the Laos Land page: https://laos.opendevelopmentmekong.net/topics/la...
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From Landlocked to Land-linked: Unlocking the potential of Lao-China railway connectivity
China, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Thailand
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
: Chanin Manopiniwes, Task Team Leader; Mombert Hoppe, Co-Task...
2020
This analytical report is produced by world bank which compiles 5 chapters starting from the broader economic context of the railway sector and evaluating the complementary ref...
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Guidelines on the collection of fees and service charges for natural resources and the environment
Lao People's Democratic Republic
#3662/MONRE
Guideline
August 3, 2021
To realize the president's decree on fees and charges, no. 002, on 17/06/2021 Ministry of Resources and Natural Environment (MoNRE), has issued instructions "on fees and charges...
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Extended implementation of measure and prevention, control, containment and responses to COVID-19 (04 - 18 August 2021)
Lao People's Democratic Republic
#956/PMO
Notice
August 3, 2021
Extended implementation of measure and prevention, control, containment, and responses to COVID-19 (04 - 18 August 2021).
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Extended implementation of measure and prevention, control, containment and responses to COVID-19 (20 July - 03 August 2021)
Lao People's Democratic Republic
#829/PMO
Notice
July 19, 2021
Government notification on COVID-19 restrictions and some relaxed measures from 20 July to 03 August 2021
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2021 economic report on socio-economic situation and environmental impact caused by COVID-19 outbreak
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
The National Institute of Social Sciences
This dataset has no description
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Road Networks in Laos 2021 (OpenStreetMap)
Lao People's Democratic Republic
July 16, 2021
Source: OpenStreetMap (https://www.openstreetmap.org/)
This data represents the road network (primary, secondary and tertiary level) in Laos based on the OSM database as on 15 July 2021.