Community participation in land lease and concession projects is important to ensure the full participation of all parties includes villagers living in the project area or those who will be directly affected by the project.
Land registration is an essential process concerning ownership, possession, or other rights in land can be recorded to provide evidence of title, facilitate transactions and, prevent unlawful disposal.
This briefing note ‘Women’s Land Rights Study in Laos’, is a summary of research report commissioned by the LIWG and done by a team of local and international consultants in 2019 on Women and Land rights in Lao PDR: Rural Transformation and a Dream of Secure Land Tenure
women have lost access to and control over land. In the matrilineal villages, women have lost private customary lowland paddy fields while in the patrilineal villages they have lost mostly fields in communal land areas that were used for subsistence agriculture.
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.
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