会议时间：2018年3月21-23日
会议地点：柬埔寨 · 暹粒
演讲嘉宾：Savanh CHANTHAKOUMMANE, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry/Department of Forestry, Laos

摘要：Forest and forest resources are valuable natural resources of Lao PDR, it also play a vital role on National Growth and Nation Socio - Economic Development Plan as well as to local communities livelihood development and poverty reduction, therefore the former president of Lao PDR H.E Kaysone Phomvihane stated that forest is "National Green Gold'.

However, in the last four decade, Lao PDR government had needed to utilize the forest resources as income generation for developing and building the country, after country become independence, especially in the state of recovering the country out of the destruction of war. On the other hand to bring the country out of the lead developing country, and bring the country to the prosperity. Due to the said necessary and in addition to unsustainable used of natural resources, that lead to forest and forest resources had been severe destroyed and the main driver of deforestation and forest degradation is conversion of forest areas into other purpose; shifting cultivation; infrastructure development and illegal logging. Which was consistence to the former president H.E Kaysone Phomvihane stated forest destruction in the country has reached an alarming rates, it is the time to change from uncontrolled logging and destruction of forests to focus mainly on tree planting and forest protection" (proceeding of the National Forest Conference, 1989).

To overcome such challenges mention above Lao PDR government has paid more attention to the sustainable management and used of the country's forest resources, at the same time the government has also proposed and approved a four key policy on forestry for instance: (1) strengthening comprehensive and strictly logging and utilization of natural resources; (2) stop shifting cultivation and promote stabilization of local communities livelihood to avoid deforestation; (3) promote and enhance sustainable forest management, protection and utilization by local communities and (4) persuade individual, organization and private sector to participate the commercial tree plantation.

In order to fulfill the above mention policy and directive of government, the ministry of agriculture and forestry in collaboration with line agencies at local level have formulated a forest strategy 2020 and propose to government for approve, since 2005 the forestry strategy has commence to implemented, which setting 4 target for forestry sector as follows:
1) Increasing the forest cover up to 70 percent of total land area, based on the three measures implementation as follows: (1) Restoration the fallow forest by 6 million ha; (2) tree planting up to 5 million ha and (3) protect the existing forest from any destruction; 
2) Produce and provide forest products in sustainable way in order promote internal utilization and export to over sea; 3) Conserve the national unique and endangered species of wild flora and fauna which risk to extinction, and protect their habitat for sustainable way; and
4) Protect a watershed, land and temperature from degradation and bad quality.

Beside that the three forest categories, i.e., conservation forest, protection forest and production forest were established and managed, to fulfill such obligation the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry has formulated the model and mechanism, and applied in implementing at site level, the outstanding model on sustainable forest management is Integrated Conservation and livelihood local communities development as it consistence to the government policy.