Donor-designed forest carbon projects and private sector companies like Burapha Agro-Forestry are facing insurmountable challenges from an age-old problem: land tenure insecurity.
A 20% year-over-year increase of agricultural exports from Laos in 2023 was largely on the back of Chinese plantations, according to trade officials, meaning that the country will reap few of the profits.
With over 48,000 ha of coffee cultivation potential in the plateau area, Asia Investment Development and Construction Sole Co and Petroleum Authority of Thailand envision generating substantial carbon credits.
- Laotian Times
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16 January 2024
As soon as the rice is harvested, the corn is seeded; three months later it’s watermelons then bananas, cash crops grown year round on farms in Laos rented by Chinese investors to feed China’s insatiable appetite for fresh produce.
Large-scale land acquisitions repeatedly fall short of their acclaimed socioeconomic benefits. In Laos, the government has started to question its own “Turning Land into Capital” policy, and reviews land acquisitions or concessions with regard to their socioeconomic impacts.
- Ecology and Society
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05 October 2022
About 100 families from two villages in southern Laos were forced to give up 190 hectares of farmland to a company that will build a cassava processing plant after Lao soldiers threatened them if they did not comply.
Article analyses the effects on local actors, their land access, land use and tenure security of a large-scale land deal in northern Laos that a Chinese company initiated but subsequently abandoned.
- Front. Sustain. Food Syst.
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27 June 2022
HAGL currently has some 10,000 hectares of fruit trees, including 2,500 ha under banana in Vietnam, 1,500 ha in Laos and 1,000 ha in Cambodia.
- VN Express
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25 January 2022
Villagers in southern Laos’ Saravane province are refusing to hand over community land to a planned Chinese banana farm, saying if they lose their land they will have no way to feed their families.
Local farmers want the NAMPheung company to stop leasing at least 180 hectares of land in Ngeun district to Chinese farmers to grow watermelons.
Illnesses and deaths have long been reported among workers at foreign-owned banana farms in Laos.
Laos reveals Chinese investor requests 3,200-4,800 ha of land concessions to grow durian for export to the China.
- Thansettakij
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21 February 2021