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Workshop on Rubber Develonment in Lao PDR: Exploring Improved Systems for Smallholder Production
Dates: 9-11 May 2006
Vientiane (International Training Center , Kilometer 5)
Organized by NAFRI in partnership with NAFES, LSUAFRP, GTZ and NUOL
Laos is currently in the midst of a rubber planting boom. Strong market demand from China for latex and investor interest from China, Vietnam, and Thailand have caused the rapid increase in rubber planting. However, there is little institutional support or understanding about how current investor interest can be best channelled to maximize potential returns to the national economy and as well as ensure socially and economically just smallholder rubber production.
In order to better understand the opportunities and challenges in rubber planting, NAFRI, NAFES, NUOL (with support from Sida, SDC and GTZ) organized a workshop on "Rubber Development in Lao PDR: Exploring Improved Systems for Smallholder Production" from 9 – 11 May 2006 in Vientiane. The workshop was organized with the overall goal of helping Lao policy makers and agricultural officials at the national and provincial levels learn lessons about rubber from experiences of other countries in Southeast Asia and South Asia.
The three-day workshop brought together more than 200 participants from within Laos and the region (with 37 participants attending from 13 different countries). By the end of the workshop participants were expected to have:
For more inforamtion, see the following documents
Workshop brings community benefit sharing message (KPL)
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For more information download:
> Workshop Information Note
> Workshop Agenda
> Workshop Information Booklet (with Abstracts) 
>Workshop Presentations & Papers
>Rubber Workshop Summary & Recommendations
>Rubber Workshop Summary & Recommendation(lao)
