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  1. Library Resource
    A Glimpse into Women’s Customary Forest Tenure Practices in Lao PDR-LAO

    A Glimpse into Women’s Customary Forest Tenure Practices in Lao PDR:Lao Version

    Access, Use and Management Rights of Women in Customary Tenure Systems in Mai District, Phongsali Province (Lao version)

    Reports & Research
    September, 2022
    Laos
    Forest Tenure
    Indigenous & Community Land Rights
    Land & Gender
    customary law
    forest land
    forest management plans
    customary land rights
    customary tenure

    The case study explores the intersect between customary tenure systems and gender roles in two villages in Phongsali district in the north of Laos. The country has a diverse population of ethnic communities who depend on forests and other natural resources for their livelihoods. These communities play an important role for conserving complex landscapes. However, their traditional land tenure practices are insufficiently documented and therefore poorly understood, and even more so the gender relations in customary systems.

  3. Library Resource

    Access to Seeds and Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2007
    Angola, Mozambique, Zambia, Guatemala, China, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, Myanmar, Thailand, New Zealand, Nepal, Laos, Philippines, Vietnam, Kyrgyzstan, Italy, Tanzania, Netherlands, India, Mongolia, Cambodia, Asia
    Forest Tenure
    land governance
    land tenure
    community forestry
    forest land
    grazing

    Laos depends heavily on rice based agriculture systems and there is evidence that the traditional diversified diet and income base is being eroded, resulting in a negative effect on the livelihoods of the people. The opportunity to gather food in forests is diminishing and dietary diversity is being narrowed.

  5. Library Resource

    Council of Ministers Decree No. 117/CCM on the management and use of forests and forested land.

    Regulations
    Laos, Asia, South-Eastern Asia
    Land, Climate Change & Environment
    Forest Tenure
    farmers
    use rights
    farming systems
    land subdivision
    deforestation
    surveyors
    land management
    forest conservation
    forest land
    land ownership

    Part I, Management of forests and forested lands: provisions are made on social and community forestry in order to preserve, manage, maintain, rehabilitate forests and forested lands by maen of strategic planning, appointing Directors of Forestry to organize, supervise and implement the plans, encouraging investments in forestry industrial production.

  6. Library Resource

    Country Report - Union of Myanmar

    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 1997
    Laos, Bangladesh, Japan, Malaysia, China, Italy, Indonesia, Thailand, India, Myanmar, Republic of Korea, Vietnam, Uruguay, New Zealand, Asia
    Forest Tenure
    land
    natural resources management
    land use
    forestry
    land management
    forest land

    An overview of the forest resources and industries of the Union of Myanmar. The long term objectives of forestry in the country are given along with major impacting issues such as land use and people participation. Future scenarios are presented based on current policies and trends.

  7. Library Resource

    Decree regarding the allotment of forests for plantation and preservation (No. 186/PM).

    Regulations
    Laos, Asia, South-Eastern Asia
    Land, Climate Change & Environment
    Forest Tenure
    protected areas
    public ownership
    concession (land)
    land-use planning
    deforestation
    use rights
    land management
    forest conservation
    forest land

    A Decree to promote tree planting, regeneration and protection of forests among people in order to increase and enrich forest areas in Lao PDR. The 28 Articles are divided into 5 Chapters: General Provisions (I); Legitimate Persons to Receive Land Allocations for Plantations (II); Legitimate Allocation of Forest for Management (III); Incentives, Benefits and their Restrictions (IV); Implementation (V). The State allocates land to residents for the establishment and management of plantations in order to reforest and enrich such lands (art. 5).

  8. Library Resource

    Depleting natural wealth – perpetuating poverty

    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2006
    Nepal, Laos, Mozambique, Zambia, Kyrgyzstan, Guatemala, China, Cambodia, India, Ethiopia, Mongolia, New Zealand, Asia
    Land, Climate Change & Environment
    Forest Tenure
    Indigenous & Community Land Rights
    customary tenure
    natural resources management
    land governance
    land tenure
    forestry
    community forestry
    land access
    Indigenous Peoples
    forest land
    land degradation
    land tenure systems
    indigenous people's tenure

    This paper represents part of an area of work in support of enhancing access to land and forest resources in support of rural livelihoods in Mongolia. . This synthesis report draws on field studies undertaken recently in five rural areas of Mongolia, covering all ecological zones from montane and northern taiga forest to arid forest in the Gobi. Our findings document and explain, with case studies and documentation from participatory analysis, the downward cycle of resource depletion and descend into poverty that is in action.

  10. Library Resource

    Economic Valuation of Land Uses in Oudomxay Province, Lao PDR: Can REDD+ be Effective in Maintaining Forests?

    Peer-reviewed publication
    October, 2014
    Laos
    Forest Tenure
    land use
    land valuation
    forest management plans
    forest land

    The rapid economic growth in Lao PDR over the last two decades has been driven by the natural resource sectors and commercialization in the agriculture sector. Rural landscapes are being transformed over the past decade from land use mosaics of subsistence and smallholder farms to large-scale plantations dominated by a few commercial crops.

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