They said... The land-locked Southeast Asian nation of Laos is one of the poorest in the world and facing a food crisis.
Half of the children in the country's rural areas are suffering from malnutrition, and some people go to great lengths to put food on the table.
Is it true ?
yes, it's true, people who live in the city probably don't know, the government didnt tell the true for the report. lots people who live in the remote area can't get the food from forest anymore due to many reason such as the reducing of wild animal, some wild animal is protected by the LAW
That s true, redistribution does not happen while National Income is growing. Promoting Forign Direct Investment and other sectors is just supporting some particular group of people. Income redistribution mechanism does not work well, the gap between the rich and the poor is getting larger and larger.
I found the many NGOs work very hard in order to help the rural poor, but they seem to have not enough power comparing to harmful impact from so call industrialize projects for example: hydropower projects, thousand households have to migate from the place they use to live and resettlement need a lot of money. sometimes, governemt need to consider lost-benefit in term of social impact of society as a whole, not only the economic impact which will be mainly obtained by small group of people (sorry to say that).
so true. Food and wealth are amongst those that are not equally distributed among Lao. The number of animals in the forest has reduced, in the north rubbertree plantations that are even damaging to the environment are sprouting like mushrooms, replacing more edible produce, also the population is increasing and that means more waste will go to the river and might kill marine life. If these continue the number of undernourished will increase. During one of my visits in Pakse I heard that the number of malnourished children is >20%. Im not sure how reliable the data is but thats serious. Pakse is relatively more accessible, so how about those in more difficul to reach areas like those in the north?
hmmm... i believe it is true as well, but all is not lost if you listen to the video closely you can see an opportunity.
she said that rice grows well in vientiane but the problem is transportation, infrastructure is much needed. with better roads i know that it will be jus one solution to this problem but one solution won solve everything
well my say is:
hopefully the gov. can build roads. that will reach the main cities and the cities should try to develop roads that expand outward to the rural people
i think what would best work is a railroad they can load heavy produce and at a larger quantites.
i know im jus talking but theses are my ideas. and what i have to say about this video.
Building railroad is good idea. May I add that it will also help to build wider and durable bridges and good roads/ high ways. Insome rural areas bridges are just too narrow and not strong enough to allow a truck to pass. IF you have good roads and good bridges it will ease transport of agricultural produce and other goods to the town and VNT. Also it would help it there is a more accessible and affordable public transport. This will enable the concerned institutions to reach previously unreached populations.
Well, this depends which ways of the country you are looking at, Laos has more than 6 million people, not all are rich and eat anything that you want. However, westerner should not look down their life style, catching fish in Siphan done has been carrying out for 100 years, it is a sustain life style. For instance catching fresh fish daily for their meals. I hope that you don't expect them to eat pizza, potato mash like you, that would kill them...!
the lao faces many problems, problems that are internal and those that are global.
bad development can sometimes affect the lives of rural ppl. so it is sad to say that for every square foot of development lay down, it is one less square foot of land taken away from those whose lives depend so much on the land and rivers yes?
