Fair Trade is a growing market and offers both opportunities and challenges for the Lao producers. This was the message conveyed during a seminar on Fair trade, organised by the Lao National Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LNCCI) in Lane Xang Hotel last September 9, 2009. The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SADC), the [...]
The Laos Extension for Agriculture Project (LEAP) (www.laoex.org) and the National Agriculture and Forestry Extension Services (NAFES) (www.laolink.org) have jointly produced and printed the working draft of the Economic Calculation Manual for Small Scale Agricultural Production and Agro Processing last May 2009. Both the Faculty of Agriculture (NUOL) (www.nuol.edu.la) and EDC collaborated with the publisher.
The [...]
For the past few weeks, two American Interns, Tyanne Benallie and Pema Domingo-Barker have been working with EDC. The interns accompanied Mr. Visay Sayyavongsa on a field assignment to the Nalongkhoun Village in the Phon Hong District in the Vientiane Province. The field assignment allowed the interns to see how EDC works in partnership with [...]
Jointly organized by the Enterprise & Development Consultants Co, Ltd and
Sunlabob Renewable Energy Ltd
The workshop will be the first of its kind in Laos that will demonstrate the “state-of-the-art”, best practices and applications of the emerging field of reporting development results (RDR). RDR argues that development projects, programmes and initiatives should [...]
More than 20 farmers from Houan and La districts of Oudomxay province recently convened for a second week-long training session, according to UNIDO.
The framers gathered at the Post Opium Surpass Poverty project office where the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) is holding a training course in collaboration with the Enterprise Development Consultants Co., Ltd.
Two [...]