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NAFRI Research Reports

NAFRI produces a range of research repots through its different cetners and collaborating projects. Below you can find a number of these produced by projects under NAFRI. For reports produced by NAFRI centers please visit their seperate webpages.

Lao Swedish Upland Agriculture and Forestry Research Programme
FAO/SNV NTFP Project
CIAT - NAFRI reports
Lao-IRRI Reports
CIRAD Reports/PRONAE







Lao-Swedish Upland Agriculture and Forestry Research Programme

The Lao-Swedish Upland Agriculture and Forestry Research Program (LSUAFRP) is a partnership between the National Agriculture and Forestry Research Institute (NAFRI) and Sida to strengthen the research capacity within Lao PDR. The current phase (2002 - 2005) focuses on providing coherent research support for the implementation and refinement of national policy on upland development.

Multidisciplinary, field-based research is carried out in two target districts of Northern Laos. This includes four components:
1) Farming Systems Research & Extension
3) Land Management
2) Socio-Economics
4) Forestry

Farming Systems Research
Title
English
Lao
Upland farmers technology sheets, FSR component (January 2006)
Annual Progress Report of Farming Systems Research Extension (March 2005)
Research Updates - FSRE on Farm Trials 2004-2005 Cropping Season (June 2005)
Proceedings of FSR/E coordination and planning meeting (April 2005)
Progress Report on Farming Systems Research Planning in Phonxay & Namo Districts, 2003 Season, September 2003
Report in Village Research Planning in Phonxay & Nam Mo Districts and follow up, June 2002  
Field trip report on progress in on-farm research in Phonxay and Nam Mo Districts, October 22 - 29, December 2002  

Land Management Research
Title
English
Lao
Report on Feedback Workshop to Provincial and District Representatives on Phonxay District Agro-ecosystems Analysis, January 2005
Draft Report on Na Mo District Agro- ecosystems Analysis Oudomxay Province (January, 2005)
Draft Report on Feedback Workshop to District Representatives on Na Mo District Agro-ecosystems Analysis (April 2005)
Draft Report Na Mo Central Development Agro-ecological Zoning and Agro- ecosystems Analysis
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The Use of AEA Information in Rural Development Planning: An example from Agro-ecosystems Analysis Information for the Central Development Zone, Na Mo District (June 2005)
Report on Results and Feedback Workshop to District and Zone Representatives on Central Development Zone Agro-ecosystems Analysis, Na Mo District, Oudomsay Province  
Report on Rubber Suitability Zoning in the Central Development Zone, Na Mo District, Oudomsay Province
Long Nam Pa Development Area Agro-ecosystems Analysis, August 2004  
Draft report - Agro-ecosystems Analysis of Phonxay District, Luang Prabang Province, August 2004  
Draft Manual - Agro-ecosystems Analysis and Agro-ecological Zoning, January 2005  
Land Use Planning and Land Management Activities, Na Mo District, Peter Jones and Somsak Sysongvang, April 2003  
Land Use Planning and Land Management Activities, Phonesay District, Peter Jones and Somsak Sysongvang, May 2003  
First Socioeconomics and Land Management Joint Assessment of Land Use Planning Issues in Phonsay and Namo, June 6-13, 2002  

Socio-Economic Research
Title
English
Lao
The study trip report to learn more about Corn markets in China  
Case Study on Production and Market Conditions for
Corn in Namor District, Oudomxay Province (March 2006)
Final Report on Village Finance: Case Study in Xien Nguen District, Luang Prabang Province (May 2005)
Promoting Soybean as a Cash Crop: Determinants and Possible Impacts, September 2005
Report on Household Diagnostic Survey in Namo District, May 2004
Report on Household Diagnostic Survey in Phonsay District, May 2004
Report on the Diagnostic Survey in Nam Mo District, January 2003  
Report on the Diagnostic Survey in Phonxay District, January 2003  
Report on the first market fieldwork in Phonsay and Namo Districts,  March 2003
 
Social Perspectives on Food Security in the Uplands of Northern Laos, February 2003, John Raintree  
Field Report on Indigenous Soil Taxonomy, Household Level Diagnostic Survey and Market Research in Phonsay District, May - June 2003  
Indigenous Soil Classification by Different Ethnic Groups in Phonexay District, Luanprabang Province, August 2003  
Field Report on Rubber and Sugarcane Markets in Northern Laos, September 2003  

Forestry Research
Title
English
Lao
Tou tiang or Peuak mueak as a plantation crop in farmer's upland areas, Field trial report and some field notes,  February 2004
Indigenous agro-forestry practices in two districts in the northern part of Lao PDR

Lao-IRRI
Title
English
Lao
Nutrient Management in rainfed lowland rice in the Lao PDR
IUARP Annual Technical Review for 2002

PRONAE
Title
English
Lao
Development and Implementation of Direct Seeding Mulch-
Based Cropping Systems in South-East Asia
“Case studies from the Lao National Agro-Ecology Programme”
 
Cattle Fattening Opportunities on the Plain of Jars, Xieng Khouang Province, Laos  
Impact of Urban Development and Market Access on Farming Systems Evolution in Xieng Khouang Province, Lao PDR  
Issues Concerning the Adoption of Direct Seeding Mulch-Based Cropping Systems in Southern Xayabury, Lao PDR  


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