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Community based natural resource management became increasingly important in Laos during the 1990s. The Land and Forest Allocation (LFA) is a landmark reform ...

In this context, the government has pursued extensive land reforms through the prohibition of swidden agriculture (often inappropriately referred to as ‘slash and burn’ cultiva...

2016, the LAO PDR is joining this trend in launching its GI registration sys tem and in preparing to welcome both national and international GI applications in the...

Demonstrate on farm cultivation in southern districts of Phongsaly province to improve productivity of cardamom cultivation (different sites, shading, establishment, density, re...

This article chronicles real-life events:however, pseudonyms are used in the case of local fi gures whose quotedstatements were not intended for publication.

Around the world, there is wide recognition that societal, economic and environmental problems cannot be solved by governments acting on their own, and meanwhile there is a grow...

The Global Water Partnership (GWP) vision is for a water secure world.If the world continues to use land and water resources in a ‘business as usual’ approach then anxiety over ...

Rubber development in Ban Hat Nyao was a complex process involving community, government and market actors. Rubber has complicated land management, increasing ...

Laos,a poor country with a transitional economy,has faced many issues in its development trajectory, including widespread poverty and increasing environmental degradation. Links...

This case study provides accounts of ForInfo's work in Bokeo province, Lao PDR, to regenerate forests harmed by shifting cultivation and forest fires, and to bolster sustainable...

Why get interested in Laos? how did this research develop?The rest of the story is described in Lao Peasants under Socialism

Lao PDR has significant potential to improve and expand its tea sector and in doing so, build on the important contribution this sector makes to the developm...

Rubber was first grown in northern Laos in 1994. A few villages that began to grow this year, the most famous of which is Ban 1Had Nyao, due to its ability to successfully profi...

In the context of a global rush for natural resources, the Northern Uplands of Laos have been regarded as one of the last resource frontiers to be incorporated into the regional...

Phou San Wild Tea is named after Phou San Mountain (2,218 m.a.s.l.) which is located in an area of unique biodiversity in the upland areas of Paek district, northern Xieng Kho...

Allocation of forest management has created two positive impacts: protecting the environment, improving livelihoods, and providing compensation for villagers who are well-organized

Since 2000, land deals across all sectors of the Lao economy have increased by 50-fold, and are conservatively estimated to cover more than 1.1 million ha, or 5 percent of Lao t...

t is notably argued that forest clearing increases rainfall runoff which, in turn, fosters soil erosion. Increased runoff also alters hydrological regimes and increases the fr...

In urban areas, the state’s water suppliers are private companies. On the plains where the state’s major agricultural production is concentrated, irrigation water supply is ...

This paper recounts a story that is both old and new - a story of U.S. bombing of Laos during the Indochina War and how it came to affect one young volunteer, namely, myself.