The briefing note "Safeguards in Cases of Land Loss or Expropriation" was commissioned by the Land Information Working Group (LIWG) and jointly developed through the Land Law Advisory Group, including independent consultants and the following projects and organizations: the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), the Mekong Region Land Governance project (MRLG), the Center for People and Forests (RECOFTC), the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).
This Briefing Note was commissioned by the Land Information Working Group (LIWG) and jointly developed through the Land Law Advisory Group, including independent consultants and the following projects and organizations: the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), the Mekong Region Land Governance project (MRLG), the Center for People and Forests (RECOFTC), the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).
This Briefing Note was commissioned by the Land Information Working Group (LIWG) and jointly developed through the Land Law Advisory Group, including independent consultants and the following projects and organizations: the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), the Mekong Region Land Governance project (MRLG), the Center for People and Forests (RECOFTC), the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).
This Briefing Note was commissioned by the Land Information Working Group (LIWG) and jointly developed through the Land Law Advisory Group, including independent consultants and the following projects and organizations: the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), the Mekong Region Land Governance project (MRLG), the Center for People and Forests (RECOFTC), the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).
This Briefing Note was commissioned by the Land Information Working Group (LIWG) and jointly developed through the Land Law Advisory Group, including independent consultants and the following projects and organizations: the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), the Mekong Region Land Governance project (MRLG), the Center for People and Forests (RECOFTC), the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).
This report specifically details the differences between the newly promulgated Land Law and Forestry Law and their predecessor laws, the Land Law 2003 and the Forestry Law 2007, respectively, noting both their improvements and shortcomings.
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.