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Property Relations of the Hmong in Laos

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Type: Conference Paper
Author: Bouapao, Lilao
Conference: Politics of the Commons: Articulating Development and Strengthening Local Practices
Location: Chiang Mai, Thailand
Conf. Date: July 11-14, 2003
Date: 2003
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10535/719
Sector: Forestry
Land Tenure & Use
Social Organization
Region: East Asia
Subject(s): IASC
common pool resources
property rights
land tenure and use
forest policy
land tenure and use
Hmong (Asian people)
village organization
social networks
Abstract: "State intervention in rural areas such as the implementation of the policy of shifting cultivation stabilization and land and forest allocation programme, many upland and highlands people have been shifted from living in the high mountains to the foothills or plain valleys with a different system of agricultural practices-from upland to lowland mode of production, which also represents the transformation from subsistence agriculture to cash crops. This paper will attempt to descript the change in property relations of the Hmong in Namon Neua, Laos, and to show how land sharing, a form of redistribution and coping strategies, can help with environmental protection as well as building and maintenance of social relationships. Properties discussed in this paper include lands and forest."

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