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.
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
The policy of Turning Land Into Capital (TLIC) aimed at monetizing natural resources. However, after ten years of the TLIC policy those aims remain largely unrealized.
To alleviate poverty in rural communities, LUP models need to be rigorous in ensuring that farmers have sufficient agricultural land, since they often under report their requirements to avoid land taxes.
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