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The growing economy in Lao PDR has resulted in an increasing demand for rice, vegetables and other products produced in the rural areas. This increasing demand spurred a new type of growth in which new market opportunities influence the orientation of farming systems and where new economic roles, outside the traditional crop production, are emerging in rural villages.
Farmer access to seeds and local seed systems is an essential precondition to improve income, maintain domestic food production and decrease risks and vulnerabilities of farmer livelihoods to external shocks and crises. This paper examines how to strengthen farmer access to seeds in the Vientiane province
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