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21 December 2021
Vientiane, 21 December 2021 – Insights into agriculture were shared as Lao PDR celebrated the launch of the nation's 3rd Agriculture Census on Tuesday, December 21, 2021. The census was launched by the Lao Statistics Bureau (LSB), Ministry of Planning and Investment in partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture and...
30 November 2021
        Laos is committed to ensuring food security, nutrition, sustainable agriculture, natural resource management, and agricultural adaptation to climate change to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals in the coming decade. To this end, the drafting of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) programme framework is a joint...
19 November 2021
      Vientiane, Lao PDR 2021-12-10 – Antimicrobials are crucial medicines used to fight many serious diseases and treat infections in humans, animals, and plants. In recent years, antimicrobials have been used unnecessarily, been overused, misused, underused by not completing the full course prescribed, and used as growth promoters in livestock production....
17 November 2021
  Future-Focused Agriculture Enabled as Digital Handover Empowers Authorities in Lao PDR's Oudomxay, Luangprabang provinces with FAO Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)'s project for Preventing Risks and Mitigating Impacts of COVID-19 on Vulnerable Smallholders in Northern Lao PDR has been active since meeting with the governors of Oudomxay...
24 March 2021
 LaCSA Lessons Propel Provincial, District Level Climate Agriculture Adaptations in Laos Farmers, agricultural researchers, experts and policymakers across Lao PDR have easier access to more and better info than ever before thanks to Laos Climate Service for Agriculture (CSA).When it comes to agro-metrological weather forecasts and related information on the...