ALiSEA SGF Promoting agroecology farming for self-reliant livelihood of local upland farmers through documenting the case of native eco-vegetables of the Hmong community of Long Lan village, Luang Prabang district, Luang Prabang province

 National: Lao

Title: Promoting agroecology farming for self-reliant livelihood of local upland farmers through documenting the case of native eco-vegetables of the Hmong community of Long Lan village, Luang Prabang district, Luang Prabang province

Organizations:

Social Policy Ecology Research Instittute-SPERI

Links:

http://speri.org/eng/

Summary:

Since 1999 up to date, SPERI has supported Long Lan village to successfully obtain the rights over approximately 9,000 hectares of community forest and land, including family land titles. This titled forest and land resources have been then effectively managed and used by Long Lan customary law based regulation and local indigenous knowledge. Furthermore, SPERI has also promoted villagers to improve the traditional farming practice through sustainable agroecological planting of different native vegetable varieties by local indigenous knowledge.

Localization: Long Lan village in Luang Prabang district, Luang Prabang province, Laos

Activities:

1. Document best practices on growing native eco-vegetables, relevant local techniques and market alternatives. This includes voice records, videos and texts.
2. Analyse and summarize findings and lessons learnts into visual brochures, leaflet and documentary videos
3. Organize local seminars / workshops to share lessons and disseminate printed document
4. Print brochures, leaflet, internal magazines and produce documentary videos
5. Distribute and share printed documents / videos to local communities, functional government bodies, training-education institutions and other relevant stakeholders

Documents:

• Promoting agroecology farming for selfreliant livelihood of local upland farmers – Case: Native ecovegetables of Hmong community in Long Lan village, Luang Prabang province, Laos
• Ecological vegetable cultivation of Hmong in LongLan village, Luang Prabang province, Laos
• Transition from traditional rotational shifting cultivation to growing ecological vegetables in Long Lan village, Luang Prabang province, Laos
• Integration of the ecological vegetables and community cattle breeding in Long Lan village, Luang Prabang province, Laos

Poster:

Budget granted by ALiSEA: 10 000 $