Lao State launched in 1994 a land reform inspired by international aid donors and neighbouring socialist countries. It aims at increasing land tenure security, encouraging farmer's involvement in intensive farming and eliminating slash-and-burn agriculture so as to protect the forest. The land...

<alinea/> The Lao Sate has almost eradicated opium production. The country evolved from the blamed status of third world?s biggest producer to those of model-to-follow. This progress comes within the history of the Golden Triangle and within the geopolitical context of the drug market. Promoters back up...