Biodiversity Wild Mushrooms – Edible and Medicinal Species Local Knowledge and Use
Due to the rich ecological landscape and biodiversity of Lao PDR, a great number of wild mushrooms are potentially available for domestic consumption and sales. Locally, some are known for their unique nutritious and medicinal properties, whereas a huge majority is of unknown value and use. A small number causes sickness or death, if mistakenly […]
Floristic characteristics and affinities in Lao PDR, with a reference to the biogeography of the Indochina peninsula
The flora of Laos is composed of 5,005 species in 1,373 genera and 188 families of seed plants. Floristic and geographical attributes of the flora were analyzed. Tropical floristic elements at the family and generic levels contributed a majority (62.23% of the families and 82.30% of the genera) of the flora, of which the dominant […]
In addition to the priority activities the Xiengkhouang province
• Traditional medicines: Support for conservation in key habitats, community agreements on management and harvesting, processing and equitable markets is needed. • Fish-rice cultivation: This is an age-old practice in Asia and part of Laos. Increases in fish production can be made via adoption of practices used in other countries in Asia and can be […]
Community-based management of natural bamboo forests
This practical guide has been developed for development practitioners and those wishing to develop such value chains. It provides “key methods” based on the analysis of the experiences derived from developing the bamboo sector in Houaphan Province, a mountainous province situated in the northeast of Laos. These lessons learned and experiences, cumulated since 2010, has […]
