-
Legal Issues and Legality Barriers for Smallholder Plantation Owners in Lao PDR
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Conference/workshop proceedings and presentations
Hilary Smith
These presentation slides are categorized under the theme of enhancing key elements of the value chain for plantation grown wood in Lao PDR
-
Can Rubber Tree be Genetically Modified?
Sri Lanka
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
K.K. Liyanage
2008
This paper discusses the possibilities, progress, and the advantages of a genetically modified rubber tree. Researchers have already identified the genes that would provide drou...
-
Development of transgenic teak (Tectona grandis) expressing a cry1AB genefor control of the skeletoniser
India, Indonesia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
A. Norwati, Norlia Basherudin, H. Mohd Rosli, Norwati Muhammad, R. Abdullah
2011
Teak (Tectona grandis) is one of the exotic forest species that has been planted in Malaysia. Teak skeletoniser, Paliga damastesalis, causes minor to considerable damage to teak...
-
Third National Report on the implementation of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Biosafety Clearing House
2015
Since Lao PDR has become a party of the Convention on Biological Diversity on September 20, 1996 and the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety on November 1, 2004. The Lao government ...
-
Borderlines: Vietnam's booming furniture industry and timber smuggling in the Mekong Region
Lao People's Democratic Republic, Thailand, Viet Nam
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA)
2008
This report contains new information from field investigations carried out by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA)and its partner Telapak. It exposes how the rapid growt...
-
Market and non-market costs of REDD+ perceived by local communities: a case study in East Cambodia
Cambodia
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Alice Caravani and Kristy Graham
2011
Forest dependent communities use forests for a range of timber and non-timber products, for sale and subsistence use. Their formal and informal use of forests means that they ar...
-
Timber trade flows and actors in Myanmar: The political economy of Myanmar’s timber trade
Myanmar
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Woods, Kevin
2013
This report provides detail on the complexity of Myanmar's timber trade. The report describes the geographic origin of timber, the movement of the timber within the country and ...
-
National reforestation, regional deforestation? Cross-border trade and forest transition in Vietnam
Cambodia, Viet Nam, Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Lu Nguyen Nhung
2013
A masters thesis attempting to determine whether the Vietnamese borderland with Laos and Cambodia is deforesting (reducing its forests) or reforesting (increasing its forests)....
-
National reforestation, regional deforestation? Cross-border trade and forest transition in Vietnam
Vietnam confidently proclaims that it is capable of supplying most of its timber demand itself, but reports by NGOs claim that Vietnam has met its timber needs largely by...
-
ASEAN guidelines for chain of custody of legal timber and sustainable timber
Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Viet Nam
Advocacy and promotional materials
ASEAN
2012
These guidelines prepared by ASEAN include definitions, fundamentals, and guidelines for both legal and sustainable timber as well as a list of references used to prepare the...
-
Small-scale illegal logging in Vietnam: implications for FLEGT and REDD+
Viet Nam
Case studies
Forest Trends
2013
This brief summarizes village case studies that demonstrate how Vietnam’s domestic illegal logging could be curtailed. The authors argue that illegal logging will only be...