Documentary Mekong Watch Background information
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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 • Communitybased 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 riverseaweed in Luang Prabang, local people’s forest management in Khammouane etc.)
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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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Mekong Watch’s Watershed Management Project
June 2005-‐March 2012
• 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.
Research Field: Pak Beng District, Oudomxay Province
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ObjecMves of the Project
• To find ways of forest conservaMon that are compaMble with villagers’ livelihood
• To create a forest management system, in which villagers can parMcipate
Resettlement, village consolidation, establishment of watershed forest and Land Forest Allocation have resulted in significant impacts on villagers’ land and forest use
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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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.
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