This paper seeks to reconsider the contemporary relevance of the resource frontier, drawing on examples of nature's commodification and enclosure under way in the peripheral Southeast Asian country of Laos. Frontiers are conceived as relational zones of economy, nature and society; spaces of capitalist transition, where new forms of social property relations and systems of legality are rapidly established in response to market imperatives.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2009Laos
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Library ResourceRegulationsMay, 2009Laos
This Decree, consisting of 53 articles divided into eight Parts, regulates State Land Lease or Concession. It determines the principles, procedures, and measures regarding granting of state land for lease or concession with the aim to ensure the uniform management and use throughout the country, to boost the development of state land, to turn land into capital, to promote the investment for cash crop production and for services, and to build income for the state budget.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJuly, 2009Colombia, India, Laos, Niger, Asia, South-Eastern Asia, Southern Africa, South America
The CPWF-supported project ‘Models for implementing multiple-use water supply
systems for enhanced land and water productivity, rural livelihoods and gender equity’
(‘CPWF-MUS’) innovated, tested, and documented homestead-scale and communityscale
models for Multiple Use water Services in 30 rural and peri-urban sites in 8
countries: the Andes (Bolivia and Colombia), Indus-Ganges (India, Nepal), Limpopo
(South Africa and Zimbabwe), Mekong (Thailand) and Nile (Ethiopia). Learning alliances
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2009Laos, South-Eastern Asia
In the mountainous regions of northern Laos, shifting cultivation, or slash-and-burn agriculture, is widely practiced. However, the crop–fallow rotation cycle is becoming shorter owing to forest conservation policies and population pressure, causing loss of productivity that deleteriously affects farmers’ livelihoods in the region. To investigate regional land use conditions, we have developed a method of identifying the crop–fallow rotation cycle from Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) and Enhanced Thematic Mapper+ (ETM+) data.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2009Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar, China, South-Eastern Asia
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Library ResourceAugust, 2009Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, South-Eastern Asia
This project is about livelihoods, and how they can be improved through reservoir management for multiple uses and users.It is about developing strategies for optimizing the benefits of WSI and increasing the ways in which water can be utilized for the benefit of the poor.
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Library ResourceJuly, 2009Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, South-Eastern Asia
This project is about assessing the value of water in its various uses.It includes an assessment of water needs for major water uses and features the application of quantitative and qualitative valuation techniques to estimate costs and benefits associated with different water management strategies and scenarios.
Water valuation means expressing the value of water-related goods and services so as to inform sharing and allocation decisions.It features quantitative and qualitative approaches and considers relationships between interconnected and interdependent water uses.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchOctober, 2009Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, South-Eastern Asia
CPWF Mekong Project 5 is divided into two components, the first relating to coordination, and the second to the development, management and maintenance of multiple stakeholder platforms.
Coordination
The Basin Leader leads this project team, which is responsible for coherence of the overall BDC research program through ensuring BDC research remains problem-, opportunity- and impact-focused.
Multiple stakeholder platforms
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchAugust, 2009Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, South-Eastern Asia
The Mekong Basin Focal Project aims were to assess water use, water productivity and
water poverty in the basin, and analyse the opportunities and risks of change in water
management that influences water poverty.
The main issue facing the Lower Mekong is not water availability (except for seasonally in
certain areas such as northeast Thailand) but the impact of changed flows (which may
result from dam or irrigation development or climate change) on ecology, fish production,
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJune, 2009Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Central African Republic, Colombia, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Laos, Nigeria, Peru, Thailand, Vietnam, South America, Western Africa, South-Eastern Asia, Eastern Africa, Southern Asia, Southern Africa
This Medium Term Plan (MTP) is written as the CPWF transitions from its first Phase (2004?
2008) to its second Phase (2009?2013). It describes the status of the CPWF as the newly
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