Title of document: Lao's Organic Agriculture: 2012 Update Author: Vitoon Panyakul Year of publication: 2012 Geographic focus: Lao PDR School of agroecology: Organic Agriculture Organisation: Earth Net Foundation/Green Net, Thailand Web address:  href="http://unctad.org/en/Docs/Lao%20Organic%20Agriculture%202012%20Update.pdf">http://unctad.org/en/Docs/Lao%20Organic%20Agriculture%202012%20Update.pdf  Summary of the document: The document summarizes the update reports and documents on organic agriculture in Laos. It also consists of results from interview and discussion, comments, suggestions from the key stakeholders in Vientiane Capital and consultant’s personnel opinions in organic agriculture.   Read More

Title of document: Consumer perceptions of organic food in  the Lao PDR Authors: Isabelle VAGNERON, Chitpasong KOUSONSAVATH, Maiyer XONG Year of publication: 2015 Geographic focus: Lao PDR School of agroecology: Organic agriculture Organisation: CIRAD/Oxfam/European Union/National University of Laos Web address: http://laofab.org/document/view/2750 Summary of the document: In general the document indicates the current perceptions and attitudes of end-users (customers, traders, restaurants) towards organic food in the Lao PDR.   Read More

Title of document: Case studies on rural development and clean agriculture in Laos Author: Sachika Horokawa Name of Journal: Asian Journal of Agriculture and Rural development Year of publication: 2013 Geographic focus: Lao PDR School of agroecology: Organic agriculture Organisation: Keio Research Institute at SFC, Kanagawa, Japan Web address: http://aessweb.com/journal-detail.php?id=5005  Summary of the document: This paper presents how local organic farmers adapt to a new method and cope with problems in changing to produce organic agriculture in Nonte village, Xaythany district, Vientiane Capital, Lao PDR.   Read More

Title of document: Towards an agroecological transition in Southeast Asia: Cultivating diversity and developing synergies Authors: Jean-Christophe CASTELLA; Jean-François KIBLER Organisation: GRET; AFD ABOUT THE STUDY Starting from the early 1990s, a multitude of national and regional initiatives have emerged in the Great Mekong Sub-Region for supporting ecological intensification of agriculture or agroecology. The French Agency for Development (AFD) has been a very active supporter of these initiatives, especially in relation to the promotion of Conservation Agriculture and the establishment of the Conservation Agriculture Network for South East Asia (CANSEA). In addition to its initial focus on Conservation Agriculture and with the objective of widening the scope of agroecology by including all other “schools” such as Organic Agriculture, Agroforestry, Integrated Pest Management, System of Rice Intensification…, the AFD commissioned a study to better understand regional and national agroecology dynamics and initiatives, their strengths and weaknesses as well as the main issues at stake for their large scale dissemination. The authors conducted this study in 2013 in the six countries of the GMS, through a review of the literature combined with country based consultation workshops in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam and expert surveys in Thailand and Yunnan-China. This publication aims at sharing some of the study’s key findings, and at providing a broad, yet non-exhaustive, overview of the current situation of agroecology in the Great Mekong Region. ABOUT THE AUTHORS Jean-Christophe CASTELLA is a geo-agronomist from IRD, seconded to CIRAD and based in Lao PDR. Over the past two decades, he has worked in the Mekong region on agrarian changes and their impacts on landscapes and livelihoods. Contact: [email protected] Jean-François KIBLER is an agro-economist from GRET with 20 years’ experience in rural development. He has coordinated a number of development projects in Cambodia, Lao PDR and Myanmar. Contact: [email protected]   Read More