Lao PDR

IWMI’s work on food, land and water in Lao PDR aims to improve the agriculture sector and rural development as a whole.

IWMI and partners cleaned up rivers and raised awareness on the vital importance of river ecosystems.

The meeting is part of a bottom-up approach to ensuring coherent policies on the use of water resources in agriculture.

Discover the challenges and solutions for sustainable development in landlocked Laos with Policy Pathways' penultimate episode.

The Mekong fishery is at a tipping point. Integrating fish into agricultural landscapes may be the sustainable way forward.

Researchers introduce the series and explain what a 'policy pathway' is.

Policy Pathways, produced by IWMI, examines policies for sustainable development and climate resilience in six countries.

New report makes recommendations aimed at helping authorities limit contamination from pesticides to acceptable levels based on the known risks to environmental and human health.

Often, migration is an adaptation strategy, and a myriad of factors shape whether a person undertakes a journey to a new city in search of opportunity.

As Laos seeks to strengthen food security and rural livelihoods, while adapting agriculture to climate change impacts, the potential of groundwater irrigation can only grow. Lessons learned from IWMI’s pilot study should prove valuable for helping realize this potential.

The vital importance of the concept for effective water governance is the key message of a side event being held at the 8th World Water Forum.

Why some farmers thrive and others fail.

A village pond could provide the people of Ban Phailom in Laos with the much-needed water for their vegetables during the dry season but resource access is a serious concern. How were they able to sort out the problem?