Agricultural intensification, now commonly referred to as sustainable intensification, is presented in development discourse as a key means to simultaneously improve food security and reduce rural poverty without harming the environment. Taking a village in Laos as a case study, we show how gover...
Suhardiman, Diana
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Giordano, Mark
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Leebouapao, L.
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Keovilignavong, Oulavanh
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[Farmers’ strategies as building block for rethinking sustainable intensification]
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Farmers’ strategies as building block for rethinking sustainable intensification
This article examines changing contexts and emerging processes related to “land grabbing.” In particular, it uses the case of Laos to analyze the driving forces behind land takings, how such drivers are implied in land policies, and how affected people respond depending on their socio-economic as...
Suhardiman, Diana
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Giordano, Mark
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Keovilignavong, Oulavanh
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Sotoukee, Touleelor
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[Revealing the hidden effects of land grabbing through better understanding of farmers’ strategies in dealing with land loss]
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Revealing the hidden effects of land grabbing through better understanding of farmers’ strategies in dealing with land loss
Land tenure, or access and rights to land, is essential to sustain people’s livelihoods. This paper looks at how farm households perceive land tenure (in)security in relation to food (in)security, and how these perceptions evolve throughout different policy periods in Laos. The paper highlights t...
Keovilignavong, Oulavanh
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Suhardiman, Diana
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[Linking land tenure security with food security: unpacking farm households’ perceptions and strategies in the rural uplands of Laos]
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Linking land tenure security with food security: unpacking farm households’ perceptions and strategies in the rural uplands of Laos
We examine the patterns and characteristics of private investment in Laos, and how these evolve in relation to the Lao government's investment incentive policies in particular, and the wider State policies in general. Our goals are to: (1) systematically describe and analyze the patterns and char...
Keovilignavong, Oulavanh
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Suhardiman, Diana
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[Characterizing private investments and implications for poverty reduction and natural resource management in Laos]
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Characterizing private investments and implications for poverty reduction and natural resource management in Laos
This paper examines land use planning processes in Laos, particularly how they are shaped and reshaped by key actors’ interests and strategies across scales and how they are closely interlinked with state logics of territorialization. It critiques dominant perspectives that view land use planning...
Suhardimana, Diana
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Keovilignavong, Oulavanh
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Kenney-Lazar, M.
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[The territorial politics of land use planning in Laos]
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The territorial politics of land use planning in Laos
Keovilignavong, Oulavanh
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Suhardiman, Diana
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[Implications of rubber land concessions on local resource governance in Cambodia]
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Implications of rubber land concessions on local resource governance in Cambodia
This paper reexamines how local governments exercised the legal powers related to their official rights and duties to manage the impacts of both large-scale mining (LSM) and artisanal small-scale mining (ASM) activities, and how local households perceived resource changes and what strategies they...
Keovilignavong, Oulavanh
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[Mining governance dilemma and impacts: a case of gold mining in Phu-Hae, Lao PDR]
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Mining governance dilemma and impacts: a case of gold mining in Phu-Hae, Lao PDR
Groundwater use for agriculture has the potential to improve rural households’ income and reduce poverty, but the linkages are not always straightforward. Taking Laos as a case study, this article illustrates how differential access to water, land, and capital shape farmers’ livelihood strategies...
Suhardiman, Diana
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Pavelic, Paul
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Keovilignavong, Oulavanh
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Giordano, Mark
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[Putting farmers’ strategies in the center of agricultural groundwater use in the Vientiane Plain, Laos]
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Putting farmers’ strategies in the center of agricultural groundwater use in the Vientiane Plain, Laos