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Eco-Friendly Intensification and Climate-Resilient Agricultural Systems (EFICAS) for Promoting Sustainable Natural Resources Management in Lao PDR

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  • Prabakusuma, Adhita Sri
  • Bounkham, Phonedalom

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The Lao government has implemented various policies focused on the agricultural sector, particularly commercial crop production, as an effort to overcome economic weakening. Those policies have also been designed to reduce malnutrition and poverty. The current fast growth and expansion of commercial crop production have proven to trigger poverty alleviation in Laos. However, this condition led to the to the attenuation of farming communities, which accounted for 75% of the total population in Laos, raising the indebtedness number of farmer families, increasing the vulnerability of the communities, and sharpening disparities among producers. Recently, besides the increase in climate change influence, agricultural practices in Laos have also faced several economic risks. These economic risks include the intermittent nature of local market monopolies, fluctuation, and price games along the agricultural value chains, and instability of production contract implementation. Since 2014, the Lao government has evaluated the consequences of these agricultural practices based on the exploitation of natural resources and the environment. The Eco-Friendly Intensification and Climate-Resilient Agricultural Systems (EFICAS) project was funded and managed by Centre de Cooperation International en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (France International Cooperation Center for Agronomy Research Development, CIRAD) and the European Union Global Climate Change Alliance (EU-GCCA) during 2014-2018. CIRAD partnered with (Department of Agricultural Land Management, DALAM) under Laos Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) performed EFICAS together. This project aimed to improve Northern upland community livelihoods, strengthening food security, resilience to climate change, introducing innovative methods, and new intervention approaches to support farmers’ adoption of climate-smart systems based on sustainable agriculture.

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  • Prabakusuma, Adhita Sri & Bounkham, Phonedalom, 2024. "Eco-Friendly Intensification and Climate-Resilient Agricultural Systems (EFICAS) for Promoting Sustainable Natural Resources Management in Lao PDR," OSF Preprints q79ry, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:osfxxx:q79ry
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/q79ry
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