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Welcome to the Lao Rattan Handicraft Website!

Welcome to the Lao Rattan Handicraft Website! You will find here beautiful handicraft products with unique Lao designs ranging from small office items to furniture. The products are made by the small producer groups and well-established companies. Importantly, the products are partially made of rattan that is bought from the sustainable community-managed forests.
Established under the [...]

August 27, 2009 Posted in: Uncategorized No Comments

Working Together in the Forest Connect Project

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 [...]

July 2, 2009 Posted in: Uncategorized No Comments

First Web 2.0 Course for SMFEs

EDC has recently completed the first Web 2.0 course for the SMFEs in Vientiane. The course aimed to demonstrate the basics of the internet technology to the participants and to introduce the use of websites in marketing their products.
In the course, the participants learned how to develop the bamboo and rattan SMFEs in other countries [...]

May 2, 2009 Tags: training, website Posted in: Uncategorized No Comments

SMFEs Diagnostic in Laos

Small and Medium Forest Enterprises Diagnostic has been completed because of the actively collaboration among the Steering Committee (FAO, IIED, WWF, SNV, NAFRI and EDC).
The objectives of the diagnostics are:

To draw a comprehensive picture of the current status of SMFEs in Laos, particularly Bamboo, Rattan and Paper Mulberrry or Posa, regarding governance, access to market [...]

March 4, 2009 Tags: bamboo, laos, posa, rattan Posted in: Uncategorized No Comments