Laos and its Poverty

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Laos is a poverty stricken area of Asia and in dire needs of intervention to help make it efficient in providing enough food for everyone while maintaining a healthy environment. Laos faces environmental disaster if no one intervenes. This paper looks at how there are cost efficient ways to produce more water for crops and how the use of organic pesticides will also help to protect the crop. It discusses how protecting Laos's biodiversity is important to the environment and species that are on the endangered list.

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"To lesson the environmental impact of slash-and-burn farming, Laos needs to choose a better and safer form of farming. "(...) Tiny dams high in the hills that catch rain or spring water, which then runs down flumes and ditches into rice paddies. The Australian project also helps to repair the village social groups that keep these irrigation systems in working order." (Bryant, 1991) This lessons the waist of water. Water quality is important to the people and the way it is used but do not know natural ways to control and treat run off from higher levels. The lower you live downhill, the less water you may receive during the dry season. "

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