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Since the early 1990s, a Land Use Planning and Land Allocation (LUP/LA) Programme has been implemented throughout Laos in order to increase land tenure security, to stabilize shifting cultivation, increase forest cover and to avoid the negative impacts of deforestation as to protect the environme...


Bouahom, B.Bourgoin, J.Lestrelin, GuillaumeCastella, J.C.[Monitoring participatory land use planning for better impact on landscapes and livelihoods: case studies in Nambor, Sobchia and Pakhok villages, Phonxay district, Luang Prabang province]Monitoring participatory land use planning for better impact on landscapes and livelihoods: case studies in Nambor, Sobchia and Pakhok villages, Phonxay district, Luang Prabang province

In a time of transition from subsistence to commercial agriculture, small farming households need to be better organized in order to match the market demand in terms of product volume and quality. However, spontaneous initiatives are often discouraged by the lack of proper support in terms of cre...


Castella, J.C.Bouahom, B.Keophoxay, AnousithDouangsavanh, L.[Managing the transition from farmers’ groups to agricultural cooperatives in Lao PDR]Managing the transition from farmers’ groups to agricultural cooperatives in Lao PDR

Conservation agriculture is a new technique in Northern Lao PDR. This study on the patterns of diffusion and adoption of Conservation Agriculture was conducted in twenty villages of three districts in Xieng khouang province, covering four agro-ecological zones: Pek, northern Kham, Kham basin and ...


Nanthavong, K.Keophoxay, AnousithKhambanseuang, C.Jobard, E.Lestrelin, GuillaumeCastella, J.C.[Patterns of diffusion and adoption of Conservation Agriculture: Case studies in Pek, Kham and Nonghet district, Xieng Khouang province, Lao PDR]Patterns of diffusion and adoption of Conservation Agriculture: Case studies in Pek, Kham and Nonghet district, Xieng Khouang province, Lao PDR

Swidden agriculture is often deemed responsible for deforestation and forest degradation in tropical regions, yet swidden landscapes are commonly not visible on land cover/use maps, making it difficult to prove this assertion. For a future REDD+ scheme, the correct identification of deforestation...


Hett, C.Castella, J.C.Heinimann, A.Messerli, P.Pfund, J.L.[A landscape mosaics approach for characterizing swidden systems from a REDD+ perspective]A landscape mosaics approach for characterizing swidden systems from a REDD+ perspective

Swidden agriculture is often deemed responsible for deforestation and forest degradation in tropical regions, yet swidden landscapes are commonly not visible on land cover/use maps, making it difficult to prove this assertion. For a future REDDþ scheme, the correct identification of deforestation...


Hett, C.Castella, J.C.Heinimann, A.Messerli, P.Pfund, J.L.[A landscape mosaics approach for characterizing swidden systems from a REDD+ perspective]A landscape mosaics approach for characterizing swidden systems from a REDD+ perspective

Swidden (also called shifting cultivation) has long been the dominant farming system in Montane Mainland Southeast Asia (MMSEA). Today the ecological bounty of this region is threatened by the expansion of settled agriculture, including the proliferation of rubber plantations. In the current conc...


Fox, JCastella, J.C.Ziegler, A.D.[Swidden, rubber and carbon: Can REDD+ work for people and the environment in Montane Mainland Southeast Asia?]Swidden, rubber and carbon: Can REDD+ work for people and the environment in Montane Mainland Southeast Asia?
Vliet, N. vanMertz, OHeinimann, ALanganke, TPascual, U.Schmook, BAdams, C.Schmidt-Vogt, DMesserli, PLeisz, S. JCastella, J.C.Jørgensen, LBirch-Thomsen, THett, CBech-Bruun, TIckowitz, A.Vu, K.CYasuyuki, KFox, JPadoch, CDressler, W.Ziegler, A.D.[Trends, drivers and impacts of changes in swidden cultivation in tropical forest-agriculture frontiers: a global assessment]Trends, drivers and impacts of changes in swidden cultivation in tropical forest-agriculture frontiers: a global assessment
Lestrelin, GuillaumeTrockenbrodt, MPhanvilay, KThongmanivong, SVongvisouk, TPham, T.T.Castella, J.C.[The context of REDD+ in the Lao People's Democratic Republic: Drivers, agents and institutions]The context of REDD+ in the Lao People's Democratic Republic: Drivers, agents and institutions

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