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This summary report is based on the Lao PDR Food and Nutrition Security Survey (FNSS), conducted in 2015 by the Ministry of Health and the Lao Statistics Bureau of the Ministry ...

Lao PDR is one of the twenty countries participating in FCPF, which is a pilot program to refine the Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD). REDD is ...

In recent years, Lao PDR has experienced an increased demand for its main national resource, the country’s land. Vast areas of agricultural and forest land, rich in natural reso...

The purpose of this study is to examine if and how the presence of MNCs’ mode of investmentwill contribute and transfer knowledge to local staff and, more specifically, to find ...

The cease-fire in Laos agreed to on February 21, 1973, has brought a welcome interruption to the large-scale violence.

Lao PDR is in transition ◦Forest Law review ◦New Ministries & Departments ◦Increased pressure on resources

Laos, officially the Lao People’s Democratic Republic is a mountainous, land-locked state, identified as one of the world’s Least Developed Countries (LDC).

Khamsong Village, Xaibury District, Savannakhet Provi nce, Lao PDR is located on high ground. The main income source for the majority of the villagers was rice. However, The a...

In the past, some farmers have been successful in fish farming, but there are still some unsuccessful results due to high costs and unreliable fish stocks.

Many ethnic groups practice a system of land use and resource management which is uniquely adapted for upland areas. This has developed over generations as part of traditional w...

Bamboo handicraft products are mostly for sale. There are in fact two main channels of distribution bamboo handicraft products in Napo village. First of all, village ...

The single most important market NTFP in the upland villages is palm fruit whose income is in many villages higher than all agricultural products combined. 800 to1000 tons of m...

Contract farming can be defined as an agreement between farmers and processing and/or marketing firms for the production and supply of agricultural products under forward ag...

It is a long way from improving the agriculture and forestry education to measurable improvements at the level of family farms. Moreover, attributing outcomes and impacts to im...

The implementation of the notice of the Secretariat of the Government

Guideline of the Forestry Department on the principle of timber harvesting in the production forest

“The Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Peace, Independence, Democracy, Unity, Prosperity”. Since the 1975 revolution, “democracy” has hung as an unfulfilled p...

In 2014 banana production covered a total area of 22,920 ha, while banana exports reached 260,000 tons (total value: 45 million US$). ADS (2015-2020) identifies banana as an ...

This article examines changing contexts and emerging processes related to “land grabbing.” In particular, it uses the case of Laos to analyze the driving forces behind land taki...

European development partners’ statement at the Lao PDR’s 2014 round table implementation meeting