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Vong Nanhthavong is a senior research scientist on the governance of land investments at the Centre for Development and Environment Lao Country Office, University of Bern. His research interests include agrarian transitions, quality of land investment, rural employment, human well-being, and sustainable finance. Recently, he has been active in science-policy engagement on land investments in…
New publication alert!In their recently published article, Sharachchandra Lele, Daniela Del Bene, Duygu Avcı (CASAS member), Tatiana Roa-Avendaño, Brototi Roy, Geetanjoy Sahu, Maureen Harris, and Deborah Moore. Abstract: Large infrastructure projects generate irreducible trade-offs between different societal values towards nature. We asked what kinds of values and knowledges are articulated in decision-making around these projects,…
New publication alert! Michael B. Dwyer and Vong Nanhthavong (CASAS member) have a new article in World Development titled ‘Making concessions pay? Historical vs. potential tax revenues from Laos’s rubber sector’. Abstract: Under-taxation has been a prominent feature of the global land rush, figuring centrally in early concerns that transnational land deals constitute a new…
What is LDPI? More than a decade ago, the Land Deals Politics Initiative (LDPI) was launched as a loose network of scholars and activists concerned about the rise of land, water and green grabs across the world and the consequences for rural livelihoods and agrarian relations. A massive wave of investment in land, resulting in expropriation and…
Multidisciplinary practitioner with more than 10 years of working experience in the rural development sector, including state interventions, global value chain studies, and farmer organizations analysis. I hold a PhD in Rural Sociology from Wageningen University, the Netherlands, and a Master’s in International Politics (Globalization, Poverty and Development) from Newcastle University, United Kingdom. I have…