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Partners workshop in Laos - towards a strategic partnership for sustainable development
Oxfam in Laos’s annual partners workshop is an opportunity for reflection, exchange and learning.Each year the agenda shifts according to emerging issues and themes and partners are encouraged to get…
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Vegetable Gardens: A More Sustainable Path to Gender Equality in Bokeo Province
Before, we used to grow rice in the mountains. Nowadays we also plant in the lowlands. We raise chickens and ducks as well, to use as food for our families. And we have a couple of buffaloes, which…
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Mitigating the Effects of Climate Change on Laos’ Rural Communities, One Rice Yield at a Time
“The weather is different now to when I was a girl. The rain comes at different times, it’s more irregular. Sometimes it’s so heavy that after two hours you can see how the river level has gone up.…
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Helping Plantation Workers Mitigate the Effects of Chemical Pollution
"We had to throw fertilizer on the plants with our bare hands. But it had no smell so I thought it was OK. But after only two hours we started noting the effects. The powder affected our arms and…
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