1. Documentary
Film
on
Kmhmu
People’s
Life
and
Shi:ing
Cul=va=on
Land Issues Working Group
Shifting Agriculture: Implications to land use
planning and communal land tenure
29
March
2012
Satomi
HIGASHI,Mekong
Watch
Mekong
Watch’s
Research
Work
in
Laos
• Community-­‐based
Watershed
Management
Project
in
Pak
Beng
District,
Oudomxay
Province
• Environmental
Documentary
Project
• Working
with
local
TV
staMons
(Khammouane,
Savanakhet,
Champasak,
AQapu,
Luang
Namtha,
and
Bokeo
provinces)
• More
than
50
films
(Ex.
riverbank
erosion
in
Bokeo,
impacts
of
upstream
development
on
river-­‐seaweed
in
Luang
Prabang,
local
people’s
forest
management
in
Khammouane
etc.)
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2. Mekong
Watch’s
Watershed
Management
Project
June
2005-­‐March
2012
Research Field:
Pak Beng District,
Oudomxay Province
• Pak
Beng
is
located
at
the
mouth
( pak )
of
the
Nam
Beng
River.
• Kmhmu’
ethnic
people
account
for
about
80
%
of
the
populaMon.
• Most
people
in
the
district
make
a
living
from
shi_ing
culMvaMon.
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3. ObjecMves
of
the
Project
Resettlement, village consolidation, establishment
of watershed forest and Land Forest Allocation have
resulted in significant impacts on villagers land and
forest use
• To
find
ways
of
forest
conservaMon
that
are
compaMble
with
villagers
livelihood
• To
create
a
forest
management
system,
in
which
villagers
can
parMcipate
Main
Ac=vi=es
• Watershed
Management
CommiQee
• Re-­‐zoning
of
Land
and
Forest
• Environmental
Survey
on
the
Watershed
Area
• Environmental
Trainign
• Film
on
swidden
farmers
lives
and
their
forest
use
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4. Documentary
Film
on
Kmhmu
People’s
Life
and
Shi:ing
Cul=va=on
• Title:
“The
Value
of
Forests,
the
Value
of
People:
The
Kmhmu
of
Laos
and
Shi_ing
CulMvaMon”
• Produced
by
Mekong
Watch,
in
cooperaMon
with
a
Lao
film
maker.
• Purpose:
To
introduce
the
actual
situaMon
surrounding
the
pracMce
of
shi_ing
culMvaMon
to
the
government
officials,
development
workers
and
researchers
who
are
involved
in
land
and
forest
issues
in
Laos.
Video
Thank you!
Contact: satomi@mekongwatch.org
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