Chapter 1: Policy Framework and Issues

1. Agriculture and Forestry in the National Growth and Poverty Eradication Strategy

2. Evolving Operational Upland Policies

3. Impacts of Policies on Upland Communities and their Livelihoods

4. The Role for Alternative Development Strategies in Opium Eradication

5. The Rights and Duties of Villages to Land and Forest Resources

6. Upland Poor in the Lao PDR: A Profile

7. Important Gender and Development Concepts

Chapter 2: Understanding Shifting Cultivation and Upland Livelihoods

8. Shifting Cultivation Systems and Practices in the Lao PDR

9. Shifting Cultivation Practices in the Nam Nan Watershed

10. Shifting Cultivation: The Phunoy Traditional Management System

11. Weed Control in Shifting Cultivation

12. Diversity in the Uplands of the Lao PDR

Chapter 3: Food Security

13. Key Concepts of Food Security

14. Community Perceptions of Forest Food Resource Management

15. Upland Food Security and Nutritional Diversity

16. A Participatory Methodology for Assessing the Role of Forest Food Resources

Chapter 4: Land Use and Management Strategies

17. Participatory Land-Use Planning and Land Allocation

18. Management of Village Forests

19. Issues from Village Relocation

20. Village Land-Use Planning and Land Allocation: An Alternative Approach

21. Land-Use Planning in Protected Areas

Chapter 5: Marketing

22. Linking Farmers to Markets: An Agro-Enterprise Approach

23. Stimulating, Improving and Sustaining Market Chains: The Role of Business Development Services

24. Market Opportunities for NTFPs: The Case of Bitter Bamboo

25. Community-Based Tourism in the Lao PDR: An Overview

26. Assessing Markets in the North

27. Market Chain Analysis

Chapter 6: Approaches

28. The Lao Extension System

29. Participation: A Key Element of Sustainable Development

30. Reaching Rural Women in the Uplands

31. Choosing the Local Capacity Building Pathway

32. Livelihood Analysis: A Checklist

33. Using Agrarian System Analysis to Understand Agriculture

34. Agro-Ecosystem Analysis

35. Village Banking in Upland Communities

36. Entrusting Animals: A Revolving Livestock Fund Concept from Phongsaly

37. Quick surveys: A Form for Village Profiles