Coffee, Mines and Dams: Conflicts Over Land in the Bolaven Plateau, Southern Lao PDR

This paper describes the land use conflicts in the Bolaven Plateau, in southern Laos, where large-scale coffee plantation, bauxite mining and dam construction is displacing smallholding coffee farmers – the ‘traditional’ land users. The authors describe how smallholding coffee farmers are relocated to make way for the new economic activities.