Living Land Community Enterprise (Luang Prabang, Laos)
Luang Prabang, Laos · Operator: Living Land Company（住民が2005年に設立した地域共同企業）
Overview
A community enterprise founded in 2005 by a group of local residents in Ban Phong Van, within Luang Prabang town. Pooling land that risked going unused, it grows organic rice and vegetables while doubling as a practical training site for agriculture students and an education hub for the village — food production and visitor-facing farming side by side on the edge of a tourist city.
Citizen participation
Run collectively by villagers, with agriculture students from the Northern College of Agriculture training on site. Free English classes for village children are held on the farm and at the village hall, and visitors join hands-on rice-growing sessions.
Operating model
Sales of organic vegetables and rice are combined with an on-farm restaurant, homestays, craft production and paid rice-farming experiences. Surplus funds go to schooling and medical support for village children and to village infrastructure, run as a non-profit community enterprise.
Impact
Provides villagers with paid work in farming, crafts and hospitality, and gives Northern College of Agriculture students a hands-on training site. Farm income funds free English classes for village children, schooling and medical support, and village infrastructure projects.
Land tenure
Crops
- 米（水稲）
- 有機野菜
Scale
ルアンパバーン市街地のバンポンバン村にある水田と有機野菜畑。面積は公表なし
Sources（1）
This entry is compiled from the public sources, official sites and research below.
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