Impact of the Land Allocation Programme on Land Use and Land Management in Lao PDR

TitleImpact of the Land Allocation Programme on Land Use and Land Management in Lao PDR
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Year of Publication2005
AuthorsVilaymeng P
Secondary AuthorsZoebisch M, Cho KMar, Hein S, Mowla R
Secondary TitleIntegrated Watershed Management: Studies and Experiences from Asia
IssueAugust 2002
Pagination657-676
PublisherAsian Institute of Technology – AIT
Place PublishedBangkok
Key themesAgriculturalModernization, Conversion-FoodSecurity, FDI, Formalisation-titling, Policy-law
Abstract

According to the annual report of Huaphan Provincial Agriculture and Forestry Office (PAFO) (1999), despite land allocation, some villages are still practising shifting cultivation. To address this problem many decrees and regulations on land and land use have been developed and declared. The land allocation (LA) programme is one of these initiatives. So far, no effort has been made to evaluate whether the LA programme could facilitate change in land use and land management. The major objective of this study was to assess the impact of the LA programme on land use and land management.
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