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Strengthening institutional and technical capacity for monitoring and analysis of Agriculture production systems and development of Land Resources Information Management Systems (LRIMS) and Agro-Ecological Zoning (AEZ)

SAMIS PROJECT / Component 2

Year of publication 2019

Place of publication Vientiane, Lao People's Democratic Republic ;

Pages 6

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Brochure, flyer, fact-sheet

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The leaflet describe the project’s components include: strengthening institutional and technical capacity for monitoring and analysis of agricultural production systems and development of Land Resources Information Management System (LRIMS) and agro-ecological zoning (AEZ); Strengthening agro-climatic monitoring and information systems to improve adaptation to climate change and food security in Lao PDR This leaflet explain how the FAO GEF project " will address monitoring, observation, analysis, data storage, and development of value-added information products, promote sharing, and better inform agricultural decision-making. Also, it will produce an information systems and develop the Agro-Ecological Zone (AEZ) assessment will benefit multiple sectors and decision makers and will be developed in close collaboration with other development partners working on similar areas.

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