Agriculture Development Strategy to 2025 and Vision to 2030.

Subject

Agricultural & rural development, Livestock, Environment gen., Food & nutrition, Fisheries, Forestry, Cultivated plants

Keyword

Agricultural commodities Agricultural development Agricultural land Agro-forestry Climate change Cooperative/producer organization Crops/grasses Food security Poverty Rural employment Smallholders/peasants Sustainable development Sustainable use Traditional knowledge/indigenous knowledge Zoning Biodiversity Nutrition Contract/agreement Animal production Cereals/grains/rice

Geographical area

Asia, ASIA AND THE PACIFIC, Landlocked Developing Countries, Least Developed Countries, South-Eastern Asia

Abstract

The Agriculture Development Strategy to 2025 and Vision to 2030 is a strategic instrument with a multi-sectoral approach which aims to ensure food security, produce comparative and competitive agricultural commodities, develop clean, safe and sustainable agriculture and shift gradually to the modernization of a resilient and productive agriculture economy linking with rural development contributing to the national economic basis. The Agriculture Development Strategy to the year 2025 and Vision to the year 2030 has been formulated in line with the direction, policy and guidelines of the Party and National Social-Economic Development Plan of the Government in each period and has been developed based on the actual situation, conditions, characteristics and potential of the Lao PDR and also in line with the regional and international growth, especially the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs). Its formulation is based on, among others, the National Food Security Strategy and Agriculture and Forestry Development Plan to the year 2010, the Forestry Strategy to the year 2020 and the National Growth and Poverty Eradication Strategy (NGPES).

Full text

English

References - Legislation

Implements

Forestry Strategy to the Year 2020.

Legislation | Lao, People's Dem. Rep. | 2005

Keyword: Agricultural development, Farming, Social protection, Financial agricultural measures, Less favoured areas, Rural employment, Smallholders/peasants, Property rights, Agro-forestry, Traditional rights/customary rights, Community management, Energy conservation/energy production, Renewable energy, Bioenergy, Pollution control, Soil pollution/quality, Climate change, Food security, Poverty, Nutrition, Sustainable use, Gender, Governance, Right of use, Capacity building, Extension, Public participation, Equity, Financing, Timber, Timber extraction/logging, Protection forest, Public forest, Private forest, Afforestation/reforestation, Forest management/forest conservation, Business/industry/corporations, Forest species, Ecosystem preservation, Human rights, Research, Enforcement/compliance, Monitoring, Sustainable development, Land tenure, Soil conservation/soil improvement, Ownership, Inheritance, Transfer, Land-use planning, Freshwater quality/freshwater pollution

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

National Growth and Poverty Eradication Strategy (NGPES).

Legislation | Lao, People's Dem. Rep. | 2004

Keyword: Public health, Access-to-information, Agricultural commodities, Agricultural development, Capacity building, Community management, Extension, Farming, Financial agricultural measures, Fiscal and market measures, Local government, Policy/planning, Poverty, Public participation, Research, Non-governmental entity, Sub-national agreement, Sustainable development, Cultural heritage, Food security

Source: FAO, FAOLEX