Despite being a low‐income, agriculture‐based country with a subsistence‐orientation, Laos is in the early stages of a … in the lowlands of Champasak Province in southern Laos make a living. These villages vary in their access to irrigation …

The relationship between poverty incidence and road development is analyzed in this paper, in the context of rural Laos …-03, rural poverty incidence in Laos declined by almost on tenth of the rural population. Over this same period road improvement …

security through the analysis of original data form 112 households that participated in a pig bank in Laos. Taking advantage of …

In response to demand from China, rubber smallholdings are being established by shifting cultivators in Northern Laos … rubbergrowing village and model the likely expansion of smallholder rubber in Northern Laos. Data were obtained from key informants …

The global financial crisis in 2008-2009 has affected almost all countries. Vietnam was hit by a large fall in export … demand and foreign direct investment. Many governments quickly prescribed stimulus packages and Vietnam was no exception. It …

Vietnam faces a number of important environmental and resource issues including deforestation, loss of biodiversity … particularly acute. This paper provides an overview of existing agri-environmental policies and institutions in Vietnam. It then …

A bioeconomic model of reservoir aquaculture in northern Vietnam, called BRAVO, is presented. The biological model is … hoc way in Vietnam. Including reservoir aquaculture into government fisheries development plans with research focused on …

Vietnam is about to join the WTO. As a major exporter of rice, coffee, cashew nuts and pepper, accession to the WTO … require Vietnam to expose some of its inefficient agricultural sectors, such as sugar and maize, to international competition … Vietnam, worsening its terms of trade. A quantitative analysis of likely policy changes is undertaken assuming Vietnam …

rights. During 2001, 400 farm households were surveyed in four provinces in Vietnam. Along with production and consumption …

This paper explores the economics of land degradation in the rice-shrimp system in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam. A … technologies. There is an alternative rice-shrimp technology emerging in Vietnam that does not have the same land degrading impacts …