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Coffee, mines and dams: conflicts over land in the Bolaven Plateau, southern Lao PDR
Since the best coffee land is already being farmed by the smallholders, some of the land allocated to the companies by the government is invariably already under cultivat...
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Improving grassroots equity in the forests and climate change context
Forest-based climate change mitigation approaches aim to reduce human-induced greenhouse gas emissions and to increase the levels of stored and sequestrated carbon sinks. Ensuri...
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Government advisory on planting registration
Government advisory on planting registration
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Use of forest resources according to customary rights
Use of forest resources according to customary rights
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Current trends of rubber plantation expansion may threaten biodiversity and livelihoods 2015
Although rubber is produced successfully in some marginal environment–as many hardy clones have been developed – there are also numerous reports of failures associated with en...
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Corp intersificaton versus labour migration in southern laos
The evidence from the study villages indicates a sharp con-tradiction between the government’s policy of rice intensifi-cation and the trajectories being pursued by rice-growing...
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Legal analysis of communal land and communal title in the Lao PDR July, 2009
The purpose of this brief report is to gather, review and analyze the current 1 legislation relevant to collective property, to make suggestions for modifications to the Right...
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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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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...