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Bittersweet harvest: A human rights impact assessment of the European Union's Everything But Arms initiative in Cambodia
Equitable Cambodia, Inclusive Development International (IDI) and the Hands off the Land Alliance conducted an ex post human rights impact assessment (HRIA) of the EBA initiativ...
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Turning Land into Capital, Turning People into Labour: Primitive Accumulation and the Arrival of Large-Scale Economic Land Concessions in the Lao People's Democratic Republic.
In recent years the government of Laos has provided many foreign investors with large-scale economic land concessions to develop plantations. These concessions have resulted in ...
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Notice of establishment of commercial enterprise: Sok Heng Company Limited
This web page shows detailed information of Sok Heng Company Limited registered in the Ministry of Commerce. Useful information is listed on the web page, including company name...
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Notice of establishment of commercial enterprise: Sethikula Co., Ltd (Amendment)
A web page shows detailed information such as company name, form of enterprise, address, business objective, business term, registered capital, name, nationality and current add...
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Rubber barons: how Vietnamese companies and international financiers are driving a land grabbing crisis in Cambodia and Laos
An independent investigative report on the impact of investment of Hoang Anh Gia Lai and Vietnam Rubber Group and two International Financiers (IFC and Deutsche Bank) on local l...
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How land concessions affect places elsewhere: Telecoupling, political ecology, and large-scale plantations in southern Laos and northeastern Cambodia
This study investigates the implications of large-scale land concessions in southern Laos and northeastern Cambodia with regard to places outside of actual concession areas, bot...
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Guiding principles towards responsible agricultural investment in Lao PDR
A discussion note from Mekong Region Land governance (MRLG) summarizing findings and recommendations of a multi-stakeholder initiative and study tour conducted in Southern Laos,...
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Camps, children, chemicals, contractors & credit: field observations of labour practices in plantations & other social developments in Savannakhet and Champasak
Report discusses the labour practices observed and changes in the target communities. It provides detailed summary descriptions of work practices and conditions that are contras...
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Power, progress and impoverishment: Plantations, hydropower, ecological change and community transformation in Hinboun District, Lao PDR
This report documents the contemporary ecological, social and economic transformations occurring in one village in Lao PDR’s central Khammouane province under multiple sources o...
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Land, rubber and people: Rapid agrarian changes and responses in Southern Laos
This study examines rubber development in Bachiengchaleunsouk (Bachieng) District, Champasak Province, southern Laos, and argues these developments are largely benefiting fore...
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Manual on implementation of order 01 dated 07 May, 2012 on measures strengthening and increasing effectiveness of ELC management
This manual compiled 12 law documents which are related to the implementation of government on strengthening and increasing effectiveness of management of ...
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Compensation and Resettlement Policy Framework
A government document outlining practices for handling land concessions and forced relocation in regards to international investment projects.
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Land concession induced livelihood changes: Research on land and livelihood impacts from land concession from mono-culture tree plantation
This research was done to contribute to the debate on the economic concession model by providing local people's perspectives and experiences of the plantations, as well as to fo...
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Turning land into capital: A review of recent research on land concessions for investment in Lao PDR
A review of existing literature related to Lao PDR's "Turning Land into Capital" policy and the status of land concessions and investment in the country. Part 1 of 2 in this rep...
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Turning land into capital a review of recent research on land concessions for investment in Lao PDR part 1 of 2 – Existing literature
A land concession is the limited conceding of a land-based right (or rights) by the state to an investor in order to lower the investor’s assumed risk to a level that will permi...
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Study on urban land management and planning in Lao PDR
This study analyzes the institutional landscape, processes and track record of urban planning and land management in Lao PDR, and makes recommendations to improve fut...
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Laos resource mapping and farmer input market studies
This study is the first attempt to provide background information on the bamboo sector in Laos in general, and in Houaphan and Xiengkhouang Province in particular. Furthermore w...
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Local Initiatives to link farmers to markets in upland Laos
Throughout Laos, local government and aid-supported rural development projects are promoting schemes to increase rural production. Only a few organizations have tried to tackle ...
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Land concessions, land tenure, and livelihood change: Plantation development in Attapeu province, southern Laos
This paper seeks to add to the growing literature on land concessions by examining a recent, high-level concession as a means of understanding three aspects related to concessio...
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Rubber production in northern Laos: Geographies of growth and contractual diversity
This report examines how this has happened using both a secondary literature review and firsthand fieldwork data.