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The socio-geography of mining and hydro in Lao PDR
This paper aims to analyze the spatial distribution of mining and hydro projects in Lao PDR.
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Forest and land use zoning
The purpose of this technical booklet is to explain the procedures, methods and practices for participatory forest and land use zoning as tested and practiced in target areas of...
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Montane paddy rice: Development and effects on food security and livelihood activities of highland lao farmers
The focus of this study is on the smaller areas (<1 to 10 ha) that are being developed by farmers into paddy land. The objectives of the study were to understand 1) why farmers ...
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Poverty reduction fund - phase II (PRF II) Community procurement manual
The Community Procurement Manual and related forms used for the sub-project implementations are intended in helping the Communities to carry out the procurements under the sub-p...
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Rice contract farming in Lao PDR: Moving from subsistence to commercial agriculture
Poverty is prevalent among small farms in transition economies such as the Lao PDR, where market failures prevail and subsistence production is the norm. Contract farming is eme...
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Aiding or abetting? Internal resettlement and international aid agencies in the Lao PDR
Aid officials need to focus less on what they consider expediency and should be willing to consider suspending or terminating involvement in specific projects that are causing ...
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Synthesis report on rice policy for smallholder and vulnerability in Lao PDR
This report is a review and analysis of rice production policy in Laos and its effect on smallholder farmers, through a pro-poor lens. It also analyzes the rice value chain for ...
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Geed day 2:Project cycle management
Management and supervision of step with the people in the workplace; Ensure data separation requirements necessary and priorities of women, men, by sex gender of each family, ea...
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Minutes of 1st 7L Sekong Basin Sub-Area meeting
Meeting minutes of the first meeting of the 7L Sekong Basin Sub-Area committee meeting, including discussion of plans to reduce poverty within and sustainably develop the basin ...
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Village resettlement in Laos
A presentation of a consultant's findings regarding village resettlement in Laos, mostly due to hydropower dams. Includes analysis of the legal framework in Laos, drivers of res...
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International knowledge sharing and learning workshop on forest and land tenure
Proceedings from a National Assembly of Laos workshop centered on forest and land tenure rights, with goals to: -learn from the experience of other countries how they have d...
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7th National Socio-Economic Development Plan (2011-2015), Draft Executive Summary 2010
The Sixth National Socio-Economic Development Plan was prepared based on the overall targets of the Socio-Economic Development Strategy until the year 2020 and Resolution of the...
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Participatory poverty assessment (PPA), Attapeu Province, Lao PDR
This report is an assessment of villagers' livelihoods and poverty in Attapeu Province in an effort to pinpoint areas for poverty reduction in development projects.
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Population diversity and rice in Laos
An archaeological account of population trends and ethnic diversity in Laos dating back thousands of years, including description of agricultural development and spread of rice ...
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Participatory poverty assessment: Lao PDR
The second PPA of Lao PDR, analyzing 95 villages in 47 districts to understand the experience of poor people in the country and their perspective on solutions to eradicating pov...
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Impacts of land and forest policies on the livelihoods of ethnic minorities
This study intends to contribute to a better understanding of how institutional arrangements governing ethnic minorities’ rights to access and control over land and ...
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Land degradetion in Laos: materiality and discourses
Buidling on recent on debates related environemtnal change and knowledge production, theis paper examines the social construction and the political outcomes of the current offic...
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Factors and conditions enabling the establishment of a network of village veterinary workers in Laos
The Poverty Alleviation in Remote Upland Areas (PARUA) project implemented by CARE and funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (2003-2015) has been supporting...
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Consuming the future: The real status of biodiversity in Lao PDR
A review of biodiversity in Laos, including comparing perceptions and realities, two case studies, and details of threats to biodiversity.
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Marketing and domestication of NTFPs in north Phonsali three districts
Elimination of opium production, Reduction of drug abuse through alternative development, demand reduction and law enforcement, Integration of the target areas into the mainstre...