Impact of the Land Allocation Programme on Land Use and Land Management in Lao PDR | Land Portal

Resource information

Date of publication: 
December 2005
Resource Language: 
ISBN / Resource ID: 
MLRF:2188
Pages: 
657-676
Copyright details: 
Asian Institute of Technology – AIT

According to the annual report of Huaphan Provincial Agriculture and Forestry Office (PAFO) (1999), despite land allocation, some villages are still practising shifting cultivation. To address this problem many decrees and regulations on land and land use have been developed and declared. The land allocation (LA) programme is one of these initiatives. So far, no effort has been made to evaluate whether the LA programme could facilitate change in land use and land management. The major objective of this study was to assess the impact of the LA programme on land use and land management.

Authors and Publishers

Author(s), editor(s), contributor(s): 

Vilaymeng, Phonesane
Zoebisch, Michael
Mar Cho, Khin
Hein, San
Mowla, Runia

Publisher(s): 

The Asian Institute of Technology promotes technological change and sustainable development in the Asian-Pacific region through higher education, research and outreach. Established in Bangkok in 1959, AIT has become a leading regional postgraduate institution and is actively working with public and private sector partners throughout the region and with some of the top universities in the world.


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