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| Comment on intention of investment | Rubber plantation | |
| Nature of the deal | Lease | Concession |
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| Comment on negotiation status | the source just states "Viet Nam and Laos on May 9 signed a contract to grow rubber, other industrial crops and build a rubber-processing factory..." (http://www.isgmard.org.vn/News.asp?Status=1&InfoID=490 ) | |
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| Comment on implementation status | (source: Vientiane Times). Looking at google earth imagery in 2019 it looks like this deal might be abandoned (plantations look fallow). | According to the company, they have invested approximately US$33 million in planting rubber trees on 6,672 hectares of land in Savannakhet province (in 2014)
Looking at google earth imagery in 2019 it looks like this deal might be abandoned (plantations look fallow). |
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| Comment on investment chain | Base on the Global Witness report in 2014, it mentioned that Vietnam Rubber Group (VRG) is a parent company of Quasa Geruco. | Base on the Global Witness report in 2014, it mentioned that Vietnam Rubber Group (VRG) is a parent company of Quasa Geruco.
In the Kenney Lazar study, he learnt that Quasa-Geruco had extensively corrupted the district government, establishing a rubber plantation for the former district governor and providing salaried positions in the company to government officials’ family members. Source: Resisting with the State: The Authoritarian Governance of Land in Laos (2016) |
Local communities / indigenous peoples | ||
| Negative impacts for local communities | Displacement | |
| Promised compensation (e.g. for damages or resettlements) | None | |
| Received compensation (e.g. for damages or resettlements) | None | |
| Promised benefits for local communities | Roads | Education, Productive infrastructure (e.g. irrigation, tractors, machinery...), Roads, Other |
| Comment on promised benefits for local communities | Company failed to do as they promised to pay for the installation of electricity to the village, to build a road, to build a school [Miles Kenney, 2015].
Based on Vietnam Plus [Vietnamese news, 2014], the company said that it poured 2.3 billion VND (over 108,000 USD) into the construction of roads, a power system, schools and pagoda. | Company failed to do as they promised to pay for the installation of electricity to the village, to build a road, to build a school [Miles Kenney, 2015].
Based on Vietnam Plus [Vietnamese news, 2014], the company said that it poured 2.3 billion VND (over 108,000 USD) into the construction of roads, a power system, schools and pagoda. |
| Comment on materialized benefits for local communities | Quasa-Geruco failed to deliver on these promises, even after land had been cleared and trees planted.
[Source: Resisting with the State: The Authoritarian Governance of Land in Laos (2016)] | |
| Presence of organizations and actions taken (e.g. farmer organizations, NGOs, etc.) | Three villages that lost paddy land by this project wrote a proposal to the government to claim their land back. Finally some of their lands were returned[Miles Kenney, 2015]. | The US-based Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) suspended all operations under the company in 2013-2014. |
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| Fully updated | Yes | No |
Locations | ||
Location #t-I1iQYu | ||
| areas | unknown field | unknown field |
Data sources | ||
Data source #CK_PeDlY | ||
| Type | Media report | |
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| Keep PDF not public | No | |
| Publication title | LAOS: Vietnamese firm begins rubber production in Laos | |
| Date | 2014-10-05 | |
| Comment on data source | Accessed: August 2021
The company plans to exploit 700 ha of rubber trees this year and it will also build a rubber processing plant with a capacity of 5,000 tonnes per year in the neighboring country in the time to come.
Apart from its business activities, Quasa-Geruco also pays attention to implementing welfare work in the country. It poured 2.3 billion VND (over USD 108,000) into the construction of roads, a power system, schools and pagoda. | |
Data source #RxBKUy7T | ||
| Publication title | uthoritarian resource governance and emerging peasant resistance in the context of Sino-Vietnamese Tree Plantations, Southeastern Laos | Authoritarian resource governance and emerging peasant resistance in the context of Sino-Vietnamese Tree Plantations, Southeastern Laos |
Data source #9ZApC35Q | ||
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| Type | Media report | |
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| Keep PDF not public | No | |
| Publication title | Environmental Group Urges Laos to Support Complaint Mechanism | |
| Date | 2014-12-31 | |
| Organisation | RFA | |
| Comment on data source | Source details of how an environmental advocacy group has urged the Laos Government to ensure that Vietnam Rubber Group is adhering to the law and upholding the rights of villagers affected by its plantations. | |
Data source #vX4ZXMNu | ||
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| Type | Media report | |
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| Keep PDF not public | No | |
| Publication title | Forest management group strips Vietnamese rubber company of certification | |
| Date | 2015-10-29 | |
| Comment on data source | The US-based Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) stripped a Vietnam Rubber Group (VRG) of its certification after finding that the state-owned entity committed human rights violations and illegally destroyed thousands of acres of forest for rubber plantations in Cambodia. The state-owned Vietnamese rubber company had illegally seized land from local villagers in Cambodia and decimated at least 50,000 hectares (123,600 acres) of the forest, including wildlife sanctuaries and protected areas, for its plantations. | |
Data source #qsuQR-ON | ||
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| Type | Research Paper / Policy Report | |
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| Keep PDF not public | No | |
| Publication title | Resisting with the State-The Authoritarian Governance of Land in Laos_KenneyLazar_Final 2016 | |
| Date | 2016-12 | |
Contracts | ||
Contract #DcJSgaV_ | ||
| Date | 2007-05-09 | |
| Expiration date | 2037-05-09 | |
| Duration of the agreement | 30 years | |