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Rural Roads Are Paving the Way for Land-Use Intensification in the Uplands of Laos

Volume 10 Issue 3

Peer-reviewed publication
March, 2021
Laos
land
research
Road expansion has played a prominent role in the agrarian transition that marked the integration of swidden-based farming systems into the market economy in Southeast Asia. Rural roads deeply altered the landscape and livelihood structures by allowing the penetration of boom crops such as hybrid maize in remote territories. In this article, we investigate the impact of rural road developments on livelihoods in northern Laos through a longitudinal study conducted over a period of 15 years in a forest frontier.
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State of Land in the Mekong Region

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2018
Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
Land Stakeholders & Institutions
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Socio-Economic & Institutional Context
land
land degradation
land governance
land tenure
land tenure
land tenure systems
women
The Mekong region – Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam – is in the midst of profound social and environmental change. Despite rapid urbanization, the region remains predominantly rural. More than 60 per cent of its population live in rural areas, and the vast majority of these people are engaged in agriculture.
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Representing large-scale land acquisitions in land use change scenarios for the Lao PDR

Journal Articles & Books
August, 2018
Laos
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land grabbing
land use
land use change
Agricultural large-scale land acquisition (LSLA) is a process that is currently not captured by land change models. We present a novel land change modeling approach that includes processes governing LSLAs and simulates their interactions with other land systems. LSLAs differ from other land change processes in two ways: (1) their changes affect hundreds to thousands of contiguous hectares at a time, far surpassing other land change processes, e.g., smallholder agriculture, and (2) as policymakers value LSLA as desirable or undesirable, their agency significantly affects LSLA occurrence.
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Impacts of formal and informal wood exports on Cambodian economy : input output analysis; final draft

Reports & Research
April, 2015
China, Cambodia, Laos
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Socio-Economic & Institutional Context
deforestation
foreign investment
indigenous peoples
land reform
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.
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Resource Tenure in Community Based Natural Resource Management project : project evaluation report

Institutional & promotional materials
December, 2002
Laos
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
capacity building
food security
land tenure
natural resources
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Convergence under pressure : Different routes to private ownership through land reforms in four Mekong countries (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam)

Institutional & promotional materials
December, 2015
Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land tenure
natural resources management
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.
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Défis des politiques foncières en Asie du Sud-Est : éclairages autour du Cambodge

Institutional & promotional materials
April, 2015
Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
land
land tenure
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.
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The colour of maize: Visions of green growth and farmers perceptions in northern Laos

Land Use Policy Volume 80

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2019
Laos
Land, Climate Change & Environment
farmers
land use
research
The rapid expansion of hybrid maize in the uplands of northern Laos is viewed by the government as meeting policy aims related to green economic development. Yet, growing evidence of negative consequences of maize expansion are emerging.
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Small-scale land acquisitions, large-scale implications: Exploring the case of Chinese banana investments in Northern Laos

Land Use Policy Volume 57

Peer-reviewed publication
November, 2016
Laos
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land acquisitions
land grabbing
land use
land use change
research
scale
The scholarly debate around ‘global land grabbing’ is advancing theoretically, methodologically and empirically. This study contributes to these ongoing efforts by investigating a set of ‘small-scale land acquisitions’ in the context of a recent boom in banana plantation investments in Luang Namtha Province, Laos. In relation to the actors, scales and processes involved, the banana acquisitions differ from the state-granted large-scale land acquisitions dominating the literature on ‘land grabbing’ in Laos.
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Trees as Loan Collateral: Valuation Methodology for Smallholder Teak Plantations

Reports & Research
December, 2015
Laos
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Socio-Economic & Institutional Context
agroforestry systems
forest management plans
forestry
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.