Dr. Vong Nanhthavong

Senior Research Scientist

Phone
+85620 22225730
E-Mail
vong.nanhthavong@unibe.ch
Postal Address
Dr. Vong Nanhthavong
Centre for Development and Environment (CDE) Lao Country Office
PO. box: 1438
Unit 11, #136, Simeuang Road, Hom 1, Ban Phapo, Sisattanak District
Vientiane
Laos

Areas of professional focus at CDE

  • Research on sustainable governance of land-based investments
  • Research on agrarian transitions, rural livelihoods, and human wellbeing
  • Coordination of inter-ministerial approach on national land concession inventory and assessment of quality of investment
  • Sustainable finance and responsible agricultural investment
  • Leading policy engagement on the governance of land-based investment in Laos

Projects

Field experience in Laos

18 Provinces with intensive experience in Luang Namtha, Oudomxai, Attapeu, Luang Prabang, Savannakhet

 

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2024

Ehrensperger, Albrecht; Nanhthavong, Vong; Beban, Alice; Gironde, Christophe; Diepart, Jean-Christophe; Scurrah, Natalia; Nguyen, Anh-Thu; Cole, Robert; Hett, Cornelia; Ingalls, Micah (2024). The agrarian transition in the Mekong Region: pathways towards sustainable land systems. Journal of land use science, 19(1), pp. 1-23. Taylor & Francis 10.1080/1747423X.2024.2288728

2023

Kenney-Lazar, Miles; Schönweger, Oliver; Messerli, Peter; Nanhthavong, Vong (2023). Governing Land Concessions in Laos. In: Neef, Andreas; Ngin, Chanrith; Moreda, Tsegaye; Mollett, Sharlene (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Global Land and Resource Grabbing (pp. 96-109). Routledge 10.4324/9781003080916-9

Dwyer, Michael B.; Nanhthavong, Vong (2023). Making concessions pay? Historical vs. potential tax revenues from Laos’s rubber sector. World development, 172, p. 106359. Elsevier 10.1016/j.worlddev.2023.106359

2022

Nanhthavong, Vong; Bieri, Sabin; Nguyen, Anh-Thu; Hett, Cornelia; Epprecht, Michael (2022). Proletarianization and gateways to precarization in the context of land-based investments for agricultural commercialization in Lao PDR. World development, 155, p. 105885. Elsevier 10.1016/j.worlddev.2022.105885

Ehrensperger, Albrecht; Thanasack, Phetsaphone; Nguyen, Anh-Thu; Nanhthavong, Vong; Epprecht, Michael (2022). Enhancing multi-dimensional quality of land based investments in Lao PDR (Lao K4D policy brief 5). Vientiane, Lao PDR: Centre for Development and Environment (CDE)

Ehrensperger, Albrecht; Nguyen, Anh-Thu; Nanhthavong, Vong; Epprecht, Michael (2022). Are commercial investments in land improving wage-labour opportunities and helping to diversify household economies in rural areas? (Lao K4D policy brief 6). Vientiane, Lao PDR: Centre for Development and Environment (CDE)

Bauernschuster, Sonja; Pichler, Melanie; Nanhthavong, Vong; Bernhard, Rasso; Epprecht, Michael; Gingrich, Simone (2022). Carbon emissions from land acquisitions in Laos. Ecology and Society, 27(3) Resilience Alliance Publications 10.5751/ES-13395-270345

Magliocca, Nicholas R.; Ellicott, Evan A.; Ingalls, Micah L.; Epprecht, Michael; Hett, Cornelia; Nanhthavong, Vong; de Bremond, Ariane C. (2022). Spatio-temporal unevenness in local land system regime shifts caused by land deals in Lao PDR. Ecology and Society, 27(4) Resilience Alliance Publications 10.5751/ES-13405-270407

2021

Nanhthavong, Vong; Ehrensperger, Albrecht; Epprecht, Michael (2021). Commercial investments in land in the Lao PDR: Enhancing wellbeing or entrenching poverty? (Lao K4D policy brief 4). Vientiane, Lao PDR: Centre for Development and Environment (CDE)

Nanhthavong, Vong; Oberlack, Christoph; Hett, Cornelia; Messerli, Peter; Epprecht, Michael (2021). Pathways to human well-being in the context of land acquisitions in Lao PDR. Global environmental change, 68, p. 102252. Elsevier 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102252

Vongvisouk, Thoumthone; Nanhthavong, Vong; Latthachack, Phokham; Thongphanh, Daovorn; Zaehringer, Julie G.; Thongmanivong, Sithong (2021). Economic development and smallholder agency in Lao PDR (Policy Brief. Telecoupled Landscape Briefs). Bern, Switzerland: Centre for Development and Environment, University of Bern

Nanhthavong, Vong (2021). Pathways to sustainable agricultural investments in the Lao PDR: Transformations in natural resource and labour relations through land-based investments and their impacts on human well-being. (Dissertation, University of Bern, Faculty of Science)

2020

Hett, Cornelia; Nanhthavong, Vong; Hanephom, Savanh; Phommachanh, Anongsone; Sidavong, Boungnong; Phouangphet, Ketkeo; Lu, Juliet; Shattuck, Annie; Ingalls, Micah; Bernhard, Rasso; Phathitmixay, Souphaphone; Phomphakdy, Chanthavone; Heinimann, Andreas; Epprecht, Michael (2020). Land Leases and Concessions in the Lao PDR: A characterization of investments in land and their impacts (In Press). Bern: Bern Open Publishing

Hett, Cornelia; Nanhthavong, Vong; Hanephom, Savanh; Phommachanh, Anongsone; Sidavong, Boungnong; Phouangphet, Ketkeo; Lu, Juliet; Shattuck, Annie; Ingalls, Micah; Bernhard, Rasso; Phathitmixay, Souphaphone; Phomphakdy, Chanthavone; Heinimann, Andreas; Epprecht, Michael (2020). ການເຊົ່າ ແລະ ສຳປະທານທີ່ດິນລັດຢູ່ ສປປ ລາວ: ການຈຳແນກຄຸນລັກສະນະ ແລະ ຜົນກະທົບຈາກ ການລົງທຶນໃນຂົງເຂດທີ່ດິນ ແລະ ຊັບພະຍາກອນທຳມະຊາດ. Bern: Bern Open Publishing

Nanhthavong, Vong; Epprecht, Michael; Hett, Cornelia; Zaehringer, Julie G.; Messerli, Peter (2020). Poverty trends in villages affected by land-based investments in rural Laos. Applied geography, 124(102298), p. 102298. Elsevier 10.1016/j.apgeog.2020.102298

2018

Epprecht, Michael; Weber, Anne-Kathrin; Bernhard, Rasso; Keoka, Khamlouang; Saphangthong, Thatheva; Manivong, Vongpaphane; Ingxay, Phanxay; Vongsamphanh, Phanthavong; Bosoni, Nicholas; Hanephom, Savanh; Vanmeexai, Phonesavan; Kaungbounhieng, Aengsone; Sisouvan, Hairkham; Khounthikoumman, Sengphachan; Xaichounorxoa, Porha; Ingalls, Micah; Nanhthavong, Vong; Lu, Juliet; Norasingh, Inthaneth; Wiesmann, Urs; ... (2018). Atlas of agriculture in the Lao PDR: Patterns and trends between 1999 & 2011. Bern: Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), University of Bern, Switzerland, and Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF), Lao PDR, with Bern Open Publishing (BOP)

Epprecht, Michael; Weber, Anne-Kathrin; Bernhard, Rasso; Keoka, Khamlouang; Saphangthong, Thatheva; Manivong, Vongpaphane; Ingxay, Phanxay; Vongsamphanh, Phanthavong; Bosoni, Nicholas; Hanephom, Savanh; Vanmeexai, Phonesavan; Kaungbounhieng, Aengsone; Sisouvan, Hairkham; Khounthikoumman, Sengphachan; Xaichounorxoa, Porha; Ingalls, Micah; Nanhthavong, Vong; Lu, Juliet; Norasingh, Inthaneth; Wiesmann, Urs Martin; ... (2018). Pan-thi kansamluad sa-thi-ti ka-si-kam yu sor-por-por lao: Sa-phab-luam lae kan-pian-paeng la-wang pi neung phan kao hoi kao sip kao lae pi song phan sip et (In Press). Centre for Development and Environment, University of Bern, lae kassuang kassikham pamai, sopopo lao, kap Bern Open Publishing

Ingalls, Micah; Diepart, Jean-Christophe; Truong, Nhu; Hayward, Daniel; Neil, Tony; Phomphakdy, Chanthavone; Bernhard, Rasso; Fogarizzu, Sinu; Epprecht, Michael; Nanhthavong, Vong; Vo, Dang Hung; Nguyen, Dzung; Nguyen, Phong Anh; Saphangthong, Thatheva; Inthavong, Chanthaviphone; Hett, Cornelia; Tagliarino, Nicholas (eds.) (2018). State of Land in the Mekong Region. Bern, Switzerland and Vientiane, Lao PDR: Centre for Development and Environment, University of Bern, and Mekong Region Land Governance, with Bern Open Publishing

Hett, Cornelia; Nanhthavong, Vong; Kenney-Lazar, Miles; Phouangphet, Ketkeo; Hanephom, Savanh (2018). Assessing land investment quality - A methodology to assess the quality of land concessions and leases in the Lao PDR. Bern, Switzerland: Centre for Development and Environment, University of Bern, with Bern Open Publishing

Hett, Cornelia; Nanhthavong, Vong; Kenney-Lazar, Miles; Phouangphet, Ketkeo; Hanephom, Savanh (2018). Summary Brief: Assessing Land Investment Quality - A Methodology to Assess the Quality of Land Concessions and Leases in the Lao PDR (Policy Brief). Bern, Switzerland: Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), University of Bern, with Bern Open Publishing

2015

Messerli, Peter; Peeters, Amaury; Schoenweger, Oliver; Nanhthavong, Vong; Heinimann, Andreas (2015). Marginal lands or marginal people? Analysing key processes determining the outcomes of large-scale land acquisitions in Lao PDR and Cambodia. In: Large-scale land acquisitions: Focus on South-East Asia. International development policy: Vol. 6 (pp. 136-171). Brill 10.4000/poldev.2037

2014

Heinimann, Andreas; Schoenweger, Oliver; Epprecht, Michael; Nanhthavong, Vong; Hett, Cornelia (2014). On the right path? Land concessions in Laos (CDE Policy Brief 3). Bern, Switzerland: Centre for Development and Environment (CDE)