Environmental policy and administrative management

There are 279 people; living in 48 families in the targeted village called Ban Tasoummai, who s of those are mountainous Akha (Ekor) ethnic group living along Laos-Myanmar border. The village has established more 40 years in the middle of natural resource rich mountains valley and locates 26 km from district administration center and 129 away from Louangnamtha provincial administration center. Upland cultivation and livestock are keys livelihood, the main agriculture is subsistence and natural dependency the NTPFs (cardamom; ginger seeds; and especially are wild palm seeds .) collection after harvesting is important as income alternated supplements. Promoting sustainable use of those economic potential products are key focus of the project through market linkage and sort out possibilities to value and finally project should facilitate the deduction of deforestation for upland rice cultivation and securing to food.

Lao Peoples Democratic Republic