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Building agroecology & leadership skills
This video highlights the challenges faced by Lao farming families when breadwinners migrate abroad for work, and how community projects are helping them build resilience at... -
Increase Productivity in Paddy Rice Field: Integrating Cover Crop,...
Integrating paddy rice cultivation, duck raising, and dry-season cropping is an effective approach to sustainable farming. It increases rice yields through natural... -
Natural Pesticide Recipes
This leaflet presents simple, biodegradable pesticide recipes made from plants such as lemongrass, galangal, turmeric, chili, garlic, and tobacco, used to control insects,... -
Recipe for Carnivorous / Herbivorous Fish Feed
As we are well aware, the cost of fish feed in current fish farming is relatively high, while the selling price of fish is often low. This has led many farmers to produce their... -
Organic Vegetable Growing Techniques
The leaflet provides practical guidance on organic vegetable cultivation in Pek District, Xiangkhouang Province, Laos. It describes the local subtropical highland climate and... -
Bio-Pesticides: Why and How to Produce It – The Yone Village Example
This video explains how and why to produce bio-pesticides at home, using Yone Village, Paek District, Xiengkhouang Province, Lao PDR as an example. It highlights the important... -
Biofertilizer production techniques in Xiengkhouang Province, Laos
The resource explains biofertilizer production in Yone village, Xiengkhouang Province, based on farmer experience. It highlights compost as a key input for soil health,... -
Sun-Powered Agroecology: The Solar Dome
This video highlights the Solar Dryer Dome, a sustainable, solar-powered innovation designed to help farmers reduce post-harvest losses, preserve crops, and increase income. The... -
How to Make Bio-Compost with Local Materials
This video highlights the importance of bio-compost and demonstrates how to make it, using an example from Yone Village, Paek District, Xiengkhouang Province. It explains the... -
National Research for Development Forum on Pathway foe Sustainable...
Abstract of the proceeding of the National Research for Development Forum on Pathway foe Sustainable Development in Lao PDR (17-18/12/2014, NUoL) -
Proceedings of the National Thematic Workshop on "What performance...
Agro-ecological approaches are seen as convincing and evidence-based alternatives towards sustainable agriculture. They clearly aim at strengthening innovation capacity of... -
Proceedings National Thematic Workshop What performance indicators for...
Proceedings National Thematic Workshop, 29th November 2016, at LANITH, Vientiane, Laos. This 1st thematic workshop was instrumental in initiating a collective and multi... -
The Lao Uplands Sourcebook, Improving livelihoods in the Uplands of Lao PDR
The Lao Uplands Sourcebook was developed in order to provide field level extension workers, educators and students better access to the wealth of information and experiences in... -
EFICAS Know-How Series Community-based Agricultural Development Planning (CADP)
This manual aims to provide to field practitioners basic information and tips on how to plan, implement, and monitor a Community-based Agricultural Development Plan (CADPs). A... -
Producing Organic Cucumber Seeds
This guide promotes the production of organic cucumber seeds in order to: (i) Preserve traditional seed varieties and (ii) Reduce the cost and challenges of buying seeds. Using... -
Assessment of Lao PDR’s National Biodiversity Strategy to 2020 and Action...
In 1996, the Government of Lao PDR acceded to United Nation International Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). In meeting the requirements of the convention, in 2004, the... -
The System Rice Intensification (SRI) in Laos
The first organization to introduce the System Rice Intensification into Laos was Oxfam Australia, a non-governmental organization (NGO), which conducted the first SRI trials... -
Strategy for Agriculture Development 2011-2020 (Lao PDR)
This strategy is a long term framework for the development of the sector. It will serve as reference for orienting MAF decision makers and officers and for development partners... -
Development Strategy of the Crop Sector 2025 and Vision 2030
Agreement on Endorsement and Promulgation of Development Strategy of the Crop Sector 2025 and Vision 2030: - Pursuant to the Article 70 of the Law on Agriculture No. 01/98 NA,... -
Country Strategy Paper Lao PDR - Pesticide Risk Reduction IPM Component:...
As a result of the Lao PDR joining as member country of the FAO Regional Rice IPM Programme, the Lao National IPM programme was initiated in 1994. The farmer education programme...
Agroecology Library
Our repository of literature on agroecology on Southeast Asia includes more than 750 documents.