Shifting Cultivation in Lao PDR: An Overview of Land Use and Policy Initiatives

agricultural practices Agriculture and Forestry agroforestry Alley cropping allocated alternative systems assistance Attapeu Ban Lak Sip Bokeo Borikhamxay cent Champasack Collins crop Decree degraded forest land Department of Forestry economic environmental Estimates of forest fallow period families farming Field research flat land food security forest area forest cover forest management contract forest products Forestry Department forestry sector forests and forest hectares Houaphanh hydropower implementation increase irrigation Khammouane km² labour requirement land use systems Lao Lum Lao PDR Lao Theung livestock production long term lowland Luang Prabang Luangnamtha maize Ministry of Agriculture non-forest land Oudomxay paddy rice permanent agriculture Phongsaly Phou policy documents population population density potential practising shifting cultivation priority protection forest recent regions resettlement rice production rotational cultivation Saravanh Savannakhet slash and burn subsistence needs sustainable tenure Thailand traditional system upland agriculture upland rice Vientiane village forester village level Xayabury Xekong Xiengkhuang yields