The Agroecology and Safe food System Transitions (ASSET) project is a five-year regional project
funded by the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), the European Union (EU), and the Fond
Français pour l’Environnement Mondial (FFEM). The overall objective of the project is to harness the
potential of agroecology to transform food and agricultural systems into more sustainable systems,
notably safer, more equitable and inclusive, in Southeast Asia (SEA). The project intervenes in four
countries (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Vietnam).
The project is structured in two operational components and six sub-components (Fig. 1).
Flagship sites are pilot administratively managed territories where efforts and resources are
concentrated to support and document agroecological and safe food system transitions. They are seen
as key instruments of the sub-component 2.1 “Knowledge production and support to innovations”.
ASSET project will support innovations and knowledge production in four flagship sites, one per
country. Fourteen potential flagship sites have been pre-identified during project feasibility, with four
potential sites in Cambodia and Laos respectively, three potential sites in Myanmar and Vietnam
respectively
The present report describes the potential of Xieng Khouang Province as flagship site for agroecology
and safe food system transitions in Laos.
