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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... -
A Technical Guide : Rice-Duck System, reducing chemicals and increasing income
The technical leaflet introduces the rice–duck system, an agroecological practice that reduces chemical use by allowing ducks to control pests and weeds while naturally... -
A Technical Guide : Propagating & Integrating Gliricidia Sepium in...
Gliricidia sepium is a fast-growing, nitrogenfixing leguminous tree, highly valued for its adaptability in Northern Laos. It could serve as a resilient live fence, or intercrop,... -
Integrated Rice and Fish Farming, Step-by-Step Guide
This June 2025 technical leaflet from Rural Development Association (RDA) in Laos is a step-by-step guide to integrated rice–fish farming, explaining how to prepare fields,... -
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,... -
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) -
What Possible Future for the “Toxic” Landscapes? an Agroecological...
This research brief outlines the steps to shift from intensive maize monocropping to multi-species systems through the integration of perennial crops (coffee, banana..). The... -
Diversifying market channels for agroforestry products: the case of Phousan...
This research brief presents the results of a study performed between 2023 and 2025 in Xieng Khouang province, Lao PDR and which aimed to i) describe the diversity of Phousan... -
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... -
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... -
Atlas of Agriculture in the Lao PDR Patterns and trends between 1999 and 2011
This new atlas was co-developed by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) and the Centre for Development and Environment (CDE) of the University of Bern. It combines... -
Consultation and Feedback Workshop on "Lao Agro-Biodiversity Information and...
Workshop report for Consultation and Feedback Workshop on "Lao Agro-Biodiversity Information and Knowledge Sharing Platform" Development, August 23, 2017, at the NAFRI Meeting Hall -
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... -
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... -
Endorsement and Declaration of the Forestry Strategy to the Year 2020 of the Lao PDR
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-... -
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...
Agroecology Library
Our repository of literature on agroecology on Southeast Asia includes more than 750 documents.