Participatory Poverty Assessment (PPA) Attapeu Province, Lao PDR

Attapeu is among the poorest provinces and partly because of its remoteness, has had few externally funded development projects. Many people in Attapeu have a subsistence level existence. According to the Fifth Five-Year Socio-economic Development Plan (2001-2005), 133 out of 208 villages and roughly half of the 17 650 households are poor. Food needs are met through rice cultivation and are supplemented by household garden farming, fishing, NTFP collection and livestock rearing.