The Organic Agriculture Standards are designed promote Clean Agriculture within the agriculture and forestry sectors, and to ensure that the management of agriculture production...

Decree on Endorsement and Declaration of the Forestry Strategy to the Year 2020 of the Lao PDR:- Pursuant to the Law on the Government of Lao PDR, No. 02/NA, dated 6 May 2003-...

This Forestry Law determines the basic principles, regulations and measures on sustainable management, preservation, development, utilization and inspection of forest resources...

The National Poverty Eradication Programme (NPEP) has been renamed by the Government of the Lao PDR in order to avoid confusion with the 8 national programmes and to better...

From Uniformity to Diversity presents the case for moving away from industrial agriculture—dominated by monocultures, chemical inputs, and concentration of power—towards...

Considerable controversy continues to exist in scientific and policy circles about how to tackle issues of global hunger, malnutrition, and rural economic decline, as well as...

The document is a case study from Cambodia showing how the Natural Agriculture Village Shop, promotes agroecology by linking farmers and markets. It highlights strategies like...

Legitimacy is at the heart of knowledge politics surrounding agriculture and food. When people accept industrial food practices as credible and authoritative, they are...

This presentation describes how agroecology stands at a crossroads: it can be absorbed into the dominant, market-driven food system as “sustainable intensification,” it can act...

This workshop is the result of two research projects: the first, on “Sustainable practices, sustainable markets? Exploring the institutional changes that link sustainable...

From the 10th to the 13th of May 2016, the AgroEcology Fund (AEF) and the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) brought together 70 people representing 30 organizations...

This document reports on a food safety study in Luang Prabang and Pakxeng markets, led by Dr. Vongpasith Chanthakhoun from the Faculty of Agriculture and Forest Resources,...

The document calls for transforming industrial agriculture into diversified, agroecological systems to combat climate change, biodiversity loss, and resource depletion. It...

In September 2014 the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) convened the International Symposium on Agroecology for Food Security and Nutrition. This was...

This presentation introduces The Bolaven Plateau Coffee Producers Cooperative (CPC), created in 2007 and owned by 1,422 farming families. It aims to boost Lao smallholders’...

Stories of change across Africa, Asia and Latin America from the DeSIRA initiative aims to provide funders, decision-makers, research managers, implementing organisations and...

Fair-trade and organic products are often sold at price premiums justified by smaller production volumes that are associated with greater social and environmental...

The last decade has seen an increasing advancement and interest in the integration of agroecology and participatory action research (PAR). This article aims to: (1) analyze the...

Presentation of Fair Trade Laos (FTL) and of the Fair Trade movement. It details the FTL principles, members, main activities and its challenges.

This paper was prepared as a background document for the thematic session on ‘Agroecology for Sustainable Systems’ at the Global Science, Technology and Innovation Conference...