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Buraphawood - Plantations

2020-07-01

including map showing approximate locations of land holdings Accessed by August 2021

Financial returns from collaborative investment models of Eucalyptus agroforestry plantations in Lao PDR

2019-09-01

Phimmavong, Somvang et al. 2019. Financial returns from collaborative investment models of Eucalyptus agroforestry plantations in Lao PDR, Land Use Policy, Volume 87 Accessed by August 2021

Finnfund driving the sustainability agenda: Case Study, Burapha Agroforestry, Laos

2021

This article provided information added on Local communities / indigenous peoples under Materialized benefits for local communities and Comment on materialized benefits for local communities.

Buraphawood - Industry

2020-07-01

including information on expantion plans Accessed by August 2021

Buraphawood - The Company

2020-07-01

including information on Investors and activities history Accessed by August 2021

Buraphawood - Sustainability

2020-07-01

including information on employment and promised benefits Accessed by August 2021

BURAPHA AGRO-FORESTRY CO. LTD

2018-12-10

This article provided information added on General info under Comment on land area, Investor info under Comment on investment chain, Local communities / indigenous peoples under Negative impacts for local communities and Comment on negative impacts for local communities

2021-10-08

This source from Early Warning System. It shows the data that the IFC is collaborating with Burapha Company to implement the Upstream Project on a third-party Environmental and Social (E&S) Upstream Level Study (the “E&S Study”)

Burapha Annual Sustainability Report

This is the company annual report of the year 2019

THE LAO GOVERNMENT GRANTS LAND CONCESSION OF 2,000 HECTARES TO BURAPHA

2020-07-31

The source states that in 2020, the Government of Lao PDR granted land concessions to Burapha for 2,000 hectares of “unused land” in the National Production Forest Areas in Vientiane province for a 50-year concessional period.

FEASIBILITY STUDY APPROVED FOR NEXT 60.000 HECTARES

2020-06-19

The news states that The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry have issued a Certificate of Approval of Feasibility Study for development of another 60 000 hectares.

This source is from the website of FMO, the Dutch entrepreneurial development bank. The company got the funding from FMO for building the plywood mill and expansion of plantations from 3,540 ha to 7,000 ha by the end of 2019.

The Burapha plywood mill will be ready to operate in this June (only available in Lao language)

2021-04-12

This source tells that The plywood mill had started to be built in 2019 and it’s now completed. The factory is located in Hinheap district, Vientiane province.

Authorities mull measures over occupied conservation forest

2014-11-21

The source mentions that In 2014, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) said that the way the company contracted local people to plant the trees on state land, notably on conservation forest, contravenes relevant laws (it expanded over the land use rights had been granted to the company). In the proposal company submitted to provincial authorities to plant eucalyptus on more than 4,000 hectares in partnership with local people, MAF said 2,157 hectares out of the proposed area were conservation forest that must not be given.