Asia-Pacific Forestry Sector Outlook Study: Summary of the Country Outlook: LAO PDR













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WORKING PAPER SERIES

ASIA-PACIFIC FORESTRY TOWARDS 2010

FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Working Paper No: APFSOS/WP/38

by
Khampheuane Kingsada
Director-General
Department of Forestry

Forestry Policy and Planning Division, Rome
Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok
February 1998

The Asia-Pacific Forestry Sector Outlook Study is being undertaken under the auspices of the Asia-Pacific Forestry Commission.

This report comes under Workplan Number C16.

This electronic document has been scanned using optical character recognition (OCR) software and careful manual recorrection. Even if the quality of digitalisation is high, the FAO declines all responsibility for any discrepancies that may exist between the present document and its original printed version.


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INFORMATION NOTE ON ASIA-PACIFIC FORESTRY SECTOR OUTLOOK STUDY

1. BACKGROUND INFORMATION

2. CURRENT STATUS

2.1 Forest policy and legal framework
2.2 Forest resources in Lao PDR

Natural forest
Forest plantation sub-sector

2.3 Forest management in the 1990s
2.4 Biodiversity conservation, watershed management and other environmental initiatives
2.5 Wood-based industries
2.6 Human resources

3. FUTURE TRENDS

3.1 Sustainable forest management in the 21st century

Forest plantation development
Village forestry development to manage and conserve natural forests

3.2 Forest and biodiversity conservation
3.3 Wood-based industry development
3.4 Human resource development
3.5 Forestry research development

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