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Indica and Japonica are the two major types of rice traded on the global market. Product characteristics, production zones, consumer preferences, and government policies influence Indica...

Compounding the COVID-19 pandemic is a looming debt crisis for low- and middle-income countries where a growing debt burden threatens to crowd out social spending for children. This policy...

Land use and land cover have rapidly changed in Kham basin, northern Laos, with a rapid expansion of maize cultivated area. While maize monoculture has...

The COVID-19 outbreak has intensified the growth slowdown, plunging Lao PDR’s economy into its first recession since the Asian financial crisis in 1998. The World Bank estimates...

This document provides a transversal analysis of the outcomes of the application of the TAP Common Framework (TAP CF) across the eight pilot countries of the CDAIS project (Angola, Bangladesh, Burkina...

This Rapid Assessment measures the impact of COVID-19 on food security and agriculture in Lao PDR during the lockdown period in April 2020. 1,007 telephone interviews were conducted...

The ASEAN countries, in particular Indonesia and Malaysia, are home to the worlds largest tropical peat stocks and have suffered the brunt of the conversion from natural forest cover to "fastwood"...

Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR) has made substantial progress in poverty reduction, despite the fact that its resource-based development pattern has historically limited...

This report represents the initial effort to structure existing knowledge about agroecology as farming and food system in support of the EC Knowledge Centre on Food and Nutrition Security (https://ec.europa.eu/knowledge4policy/global-food-nutrition-security_en)...

The report represents the initial effort, carried out in the frame of the EC Knowledge Centre on Global Food and Nutrition Security, to structure existing knowledge about agroecology as farming...