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 home. Through training in biofertilizer production, sustainable farming, water management, and marketing, farmers gain new skills to improve their livelihoods. The project also supports gender equality, leadership development, and provides essential farming equipment. Thanks to these efforts, families can strengthen food security, earn fair incomes, and reduce the need for migration, while staying together in their communities.

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Type of ALiSEA product Videos
Title Building agroecology & leadership skills
Description 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 home. Through training in biofertilizer production, sustainable farming, water management, and marketing, farmers gain new skills to improve their livelihoods. The project also supports gender equality, leadership development, and provides essential farming equipment. Thanks to these efforts, families can strengthen food security, earn fair incomes, and reduce the need for migration, while staying together in their communities.
Agroecology Category
  • Input reduction and recycling
  • Economy and income
  • Climate
  • Natural resources governance
  • Collaboration
Agroecology Keyword
  • Bio-fertilizer
  • Compost
  • Input reduction
  • Income diversification
  • Market access
  • Cooperative
Contributing organisations ADSA, Phan-Thin, ALiSEA, ASSET Project
Author
Year 2025
Type of document Success stories & cases
Language
  • English
  • Lao
Spatial Information
Country Lao PDR
Administrative Level 1 Vientiane Capital
Administrative Level 2 Naxaythong
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