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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...
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Decree on the determination of 14 production areas in 5 provinces
Decree on the determination of 14 production areas in 5 provinces
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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 ...
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Understanding children’s work and youth employment outcomes in Laos 2014
Almost 71,000 children age 6-13 years, 6.5 percent of this age group, are in employment in Laos according to 2010 Laos Labour Force and Child Labour Survey (LFCLS 2...
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Notification No. 0024 / KB of the Forestry Inspection Department, dated 06/01/2011 on the implementation of the agreement of Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry No. 4037 / KP dated 20 December 2010 on the use of chemical fertilizers.
Use uniforms and markers for forest inspection.
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Agricultural intensification for food security in rainfed rice-based systems of southern Lao PDR
Field data showed that the productivity of the rice line is strongly influenced by the nature of the flood event; whether it took place during the growth of the crop, and...
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Notification of forestry department No. 0806 / Km, dated 19/10/2010 on inspection of animal transport through third countries.
Moving wildlife through Laos must requires the Provincial and capital Forest Inspectorate to strictly comply with the Law on Aquatic Animals and Wildlife
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The report analyzes agriculture and forest ecosystems of Houn district in Oudomxay province
This report is to provide information on the effects of analysis and identification of ecological and forest ecosystems in the city, especially socioeconomic data and agricultur...