Lao PDR country consultations 2009

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A one-day high-level consultation with the Government of Lao PDR was held in Vientiane on 27 August 2009, followed by a two-day technical workshop. The Lao delegation was led by H.E. Sitaheng Rasphone, the Lao Minister for Agriculture and Forestry, the Australian delegation was led by Ms Michelle Forster, the Australian Ambassador to Lao PDR, and the ACIAR delegation was led by the ACIAR Deputy CEO, Dr John Skerritt. This is the first formal Lao consultation conducted in the history of ACIAR.

The focus of the consultations was on priorities for research to support improved productivity and income from rice-based systems (across agronomic, socio-economic/marketing, and livestock aspects of the systems), to explore priorities for research collaboration to link with planned research with other major donor and government programs, and to build upon the outcomes of ACIAR’s earlier investment on this subject in Laos and elsewhere in the region.

The outcomes from the consultations are attached below.