Social Policy Ecology Research Institute SPERI

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Platform »
- Cao Quang Agro-Forestry and Ecological Service Cooperative
Records »
- Theo bước chân Thầy
Video »
- (SPERI & scuba VISION) One way road to Nasai
Livelihood Sovereignty
Overview

Livelihood Sovereignty is ‘a holistic ethical alternative solution’ which consists of five inter-relative rights: 1) The right to land, forest and water, clean air and natural landscape (basic); 2) The right to maintain one’s own religion (unique); 3) The right to live according to one’s own way of life and values of happiness and wellbeing within one’s own natural environment (practice); 4) The right to operate according to one’s own knowledge and decide what to plant, initiate, create and invent on one’s own land; (holistic); and 5) The right to co-manage or co-govern natural resources with neighboring communities and local authorities (strategic).
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Co-governance »
- Photobook: Interdependence with Nature (2022)
Customary Law »
- Continued Strengthening Livelihood Sovereignty for Villagers Wellbeing through Approaching Holistic Landscape Ecosystem Components
Religion »
- The ‘Nao Long’ Ritual and Spiritual Forests
Worship Nature
Overview

Nature is the Mother of all creatures. Such a simple and long lasting philosophy should always remind us to promote ‘Friendliness in mind - Faith in our behaviour - and Beauty in our relationships’.
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Animism »
- Spirit Forestland, Customary Law and Indigenous Ethnic Minority Communities in Vietnam
Sacred forest & land »
- Ten years after resettlement, the Ma Lieng of Cao village are indebted, hungry and landless
Ceremony »
- New rice feast of the H're people in Po E Commune, Kon Plong district, Kon Tum province, Vietnam
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Vietnam »
Laos »
- Luang Prabang
- Nam Bak
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Governance
Organization
Human Resource

From community forest land rights to livelihood sovereignty and wellbeing

Book on Civil society action towards the Law of Association

Ecological Wellbeing Based Livelihood Identtiy and Livelihood Sovereignty of the Indigenous People: A Pilot Baseline Study in Mekong Region

Promoting agroecology farming for self-reliant livelihood of local upland farmers in Luang Prabang, Laos

Ecological vegetable cultivation of Hmong in Long Lan village, Luang Prabang province, Laos

Cultural based natural resources management: Ban Thapene, Luang Prabang Province, Laos

Community forest management in Son Linh commune, Huong Son district, Ha Tinh province

Status and changes of local rice varieties of the Hre in Po E commune, Kon Plong district, Kon Tum province

Spirit Forestland, Customary Law and Indigenous Ethnic Minority Communities in Vietnam

Community Forestland Management, Outside Interventions and Local Responses: The case of the Thai ethnic group in Nghe An province, Vietnam

Book on Nature spirit - An Approach to Biological Human Ecology Theory

Conservation and Ethnobotanical Knowledge of a Hmong Community in Long Lan, Luang Prabang, Lao People’s Democratic Republic

Outputs of Seminar on Inadequacies and shortcomings in policies and practice of forest and forestland allocation and post- allocation

Resettlement and conflict resolution in Luang Prang, Lao PDR

Radical Human Ecology

Inconsistencies in forestland mapping in upland indigenous ethnic minority communities in Vietnam

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Human Resource