The struggle over Lao PDR’s forests: New opportunities for improved forest governance?

• ການປ່ຽນແປງສະພາບອາກາດ
• Deforestation drivers
• ຊົນເຜົ່າ ແລະ ຊົນກຸ່ມນ້ອຍ
• Forest cover reporting
• ນະໂຍບາຍ ແລະ ການຄຸ້ມຄອງປ່າໄມ້

The forests of Lao PDR have dramatically diminished in recent decades. The main drivers of deforestation are changes in land use with forests being converted to agriculture, hydropower, mining and plantations. The main drivers of degradation are legal and illegal logging, especially salvage logging and pioneering shifting cultivation. Underlying drivers are poverty, weak governance and corruption, poor law enforcement and limited capacities as well as unclear, often contradictory legislation and the international demand for timber, rubber, food, electricity and minerals. The situation regarding forest governance, however, seems to slightly improve starting in early 2016. After years of little or no progress in terms of REDD+ the country prepared a proposal to receive performance-based payments which has been accepted into the FCPF Carbon Fund. Lao PDR also entered into the EU-FLEGT negotiations. A new government, which has been in office since early 2016, is increasingly trying to combat illegal logging and timber exports.

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The struggle over Lao PDR’s forests: New opportunities for improved forest governance? The forests of Lao PDR have dramatically diminished in recent decades. The main drivers of deforestation are changes in land use with forests being converted to agriculture, hydropower, mining and plantations. The main drivers of degradation are legal and illegal logging, especially salvage logging and pioneering shifting cultivation. Underlying drivers are poverty, weak governance and corruption, poor law enforcement and limited capacities as well as unclear, often contradictory legislation and the international demand for timber, rubber, food, electricity and minerals. The situation regarding forest governance, however, seems to slightly improve starting in early 2016. After years of little or no progress in terms of REDD+ the country prepared a proposal to receive performance-based payments which has been accepted into the FCPF Carbon Fund. Lao PDR also entered into the EU-FLEGT negotiations. A new government, which has been in office since early 2016, is increasingly trying to combat illegal logging and timber exports.

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ປະເພດເອກະສານ	ບົດລາຍງານ, ບົດຄວາມວາລະສານ ແລະ ເອກະສານຄົ້ນຄວ້າ (ລວມທັງບົດວິທະຍານິພົນ)
ວັນທີຕີພິມ	2017
ຜູ້ຕີພິມ	Pacific Geographies
ຂໍ້ຈຳກັດໃນການເຂົ້າເຖິງ ແລະ ການນຳໃຊ້	The Pacific Geographies (PG), ISSN 2196-1468, is the peer-reviewed semi-annual publication of the Association for Pacific Studies (Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Pazifische Studien e.V., APSA). From 1992-2012 it was labelled Pacific News (ISSN 1435-8360). It is published through the Department of Human Geography of Hamburg University, Germany. It is an open access journal, all articles can be downloaded for free. PG is listed at the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). There are no submission or APC charges. The authors retain copyright. Copyright & Licensing: CC BY-NC-ND.
ລິຂະສິດ	ຖືກຕ້ອງ
ການອະນຸຍາດ	CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
ຜູ້ຂຽນ (ບຸກຄົນ)	Sebastian Koch
ພາສາ	ພາສາອັງກິດ
ວັນທີດັດແປງ	24 Jul 2018