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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    April, 2015
    China, Cambodia, Laos

    The Cambodian government allowed 1,204,750 hectares as economic land concession (ELC) to 118 local and international companies. Global Witness reported that 2.6 million ha had been given in 272 ELCs, mainly for rubber plantations. Many concessionaires do not comply with their contracts, nor with existing land and forest laws. Government revenues from timber exports are extremely low. Deforestation, and removal of luxury timbers has increased dramatically. Land concessions rob local communities of their income from non-timber forest products.

  2. Library Resource
    Institutional & promotional materials
    December, 2015
    Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam

    This paper aims to provide keys that will help us understand contemporary land dynamics in these four countries. In order to do so it highlights their similarities and differences, both in the long history that shaped today’s local land situations and in more recent reforms implemented in the context of greater economic openness.
    The first part of the paper sets the cultural and historical context, with an overview of the diverse ways that the political authorities and different groups within the region have related to land.

  3. Library Resource
    Institutional & promotional materials
    April, 2015
    Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam

    Cette journée dédiée à l’Asie du Sud-Est visait à faire un état des lieux comparé des dynamiques et des politiques foncières de quatre pays d’intérêt pour la Coopération française dans cette région (le Cambodge, le Laos, le Vietnam et la Birmanie), et à en caractériser plus particulièrement les spécificités au Cambodge.

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2015
    Laos

    This brief reviews a teak tree valuation methodology that attempts to ameliorate the risks inherent to borrowers and banks as well to ensure that community forestry principles and aims to improve livelihoods and capabilities are adaptable to existing social and economic pressures. The valuation method was created in tandem with the implementation of a smallholder forestry project in Bokeo, Lao PDR. The project was implemented by RECOFTC in conjunction with the Lao Provincial Organisation for Forestry and Agriculture (PAFO) and the Lao Department of Agriculture and Forestry.

  5. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    November, 2015
    Cambodia, Laos, Thailand

    Considerable debate has developed in recent years over the potential of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) to either rectify or exacerbate social inequities in tropical forest countries. Despite agreement on the importance of equity issues in REDD+, few studies have considered differences in equity and equitable outcomes as understood at national and local levels, and related contextspecific barriers that frustrate the achievement of equitable outcomes.

  6. Library Resource
    Training Resources & Tools
    February, 2015
    Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam

    To accompany the training video (available here) produced by USAID-funded programs GREEN Mekong and USAID LEAF Asia, a discussion guide is now available for trainers and grassroots facilitators to delve deeper into the gender aspect of social equity in terms of forest-based climate change initiatives, including REDD+. The questions in the guide will help facilitate discussions concerning forest management practices and forest governance in the local and institutional contexts.

  7. Library Resource
    Institutional & promotional materials
    October, 2015
    Laos

    RECOFTC’s Grassroots Capacity Building for REDD+ project in Lao PDR is launching five new posters on gender mainstreaming in climate change (CC) and sustainable forest management (SFM). The posters are produced in Lao language and serve as a tool for local facilitators in their activities to raise awareness and generate discussions among local communities on these issues.  

  8. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2015
    Laos

    The report describes the process of developing a certificate that is issued by the Lao PDR government to recognize user rights over one rotation period and to facilitate the legal harvesting and transport of timber from teak plantations. Financial valuation was added to the certificates to test the possibility of using standing timber value as loan collateral in local microfinance schemes.

  9. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2015
    Laos

    Equity has featured prominently in international climate change discourse since the establishment of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 1992. Looking forward, equity is expected to be of even greater relevance in this year’s hoped for landmark climate agreement, to be finalized at the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) in Paris. Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) remains central in global conversations at the intersection of forest and climate change policy.

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