Author: Sisomphet Souvanthalisith
AIT Library Call Number: AIT RSPR no.GD-02-01
Year: 2002
Academic Program: Gender and Development Studies (GDS)
Type: Research Studies Project Report (M.Eng.) – Asian Institute of Technology, 2013
Examination Committee: Kyoko Kusakabe (Chairperson); Bernadette P. Resurreccion, B.W.E. (Examination Committee Members)
Abstract: Silalek village is one of the poorest and remote areas of Xieng Ngueng district, the focal zone of Luang Phabang Province and the country. Being a traditional society guided by patriarchal ideology, there is a prevalence of inequality in gender roles, relations, responsibilities and access to resources and decision-making among men and women in this village. The Fourth Party Congress in 1986 led to policies for restriction of slash-and- bum and clearing of forest for farming and to arrangements of ï¬xed agriculture plots for shifting cultivators. Many Decrees related to the issue of Land Allocation were put on the agenda more seriously after 1990. The strategy ofthe government is to provide individual rights to land ownership under the process of Land Allocation. This strategy is interested to motivate upland cultivators to invest in their allocated land and to conserve forest lands. A major purpose of this study is to examine household‘s access to resources before, during and after land allocation in LSFP. Did the land allocation measures increase women’s work burden and reduce their rights in land? Or did such policy measure beneï¬t women’s interests and increase their participation in decision making? The field worked was conducted in Silalek village of Xieng Ngeun of Luang Prabang Province, in the northern part of Laos. It was found land allocation brought a number of changes. Some of the changes were a direct result of land allocation other changes were indirect results because of the change in the system of cultivation. The unequal distribution of beneï¬ts between women and men under the process of Land Allocation is a major factor that may adversely affect the effectiveness of Land Allocation. This study focused on describing the changes in women’s access to and control over land according to the land allocation procedure, also how it affects gender division of labor. Besides caring for the family, weeding in Hai for rice and also in the cash cr0p ï¬eld is mostly the responsib
Scholarship Donor(s): Lao-Swedish Forestry Programme
Note: A research submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Engineering in Geotechnical and Earth Resources Engineering, School of Environment, Resources and Development
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