Land and Forest Tenure in Laos: Baseline Overview 2016 with Options for Community Participation in Forest Management

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This review describes seven sets of processes that influence this context, and therefore shape land and forest tenure in contemporary Laos. These include: 1. Macro-scale forest management, 2. Village-scale zoning and land-use planning, 3. Large-scale investment and infrastructure, 4. Individual land titling, 5. Smallholder cash cropping and contract farming, 6. Community-oriented forestry including but not limited to REDD+, and 7. Community-scale land titling and other forms of tenure recognition. In summarizing these, this document seeks to provide a common basis for ongoing policy discussions in the land and forest sectors. Its goal is thus to find a middle ground between overly simplistic descriptions of tenure security, such as those based only on formal status, and the widely held but difficult-to-use acknowledgment that its complicated.

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Land and Forest Tenure in Laos: Baseline Overview 2016 with Options for Community Participation in Forest Management

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Document type	Analysis, discussion papers, and blogs
Publication date	2017.0
Publisher	UN-REDD PROGRAMME
Copyright	Yes
License	Creative Commons Attribution
Author (individual)	Michael Dwyer
Language	English
Date modified	5 Dec 2019