This is a compilation of short stories written by secondary students in Champasak Province. The stories depict the fundamental centrality of land to the livelihoods of rural Lao populations.

Nature created the earth, rivers and forests to be companions to the world’s peoples. If we are devoid of any of these, we will have no way of growing food or sustaining ourselves.

The draft of amended Land Law of 2019 shows improvements to previous drafts, however there are some elements of concern remain, so the Land Law Advisory Group presented 7 recommendations as briefing notes to the draft amended Land Law