Community Based Eco-Enterprise: June 2009

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Eco-vegetable production chain of Long Lan community enterprise, Luang Prabang prrovince, Laos

Long Lan locates in tropical forest area, on the total area of 8,439 ha, 40 km northeast of Luang Prabang, a city of world cultural heritage of Laos. Long Lan is on 1,200 m meters above sea level. The village is home to 61 households belong to 7 clans of H'mong including Zang, Ly, Ho, Mua, Tho, Song and Vang.

H'mong people in Long Lan maintain traditional cultural values and indigenous knowledge of agricultural cultivation, especially growing vegetables on valley and surrounding Rocky Mountains and forest.

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Kiểm tra hàm lượng độc tố trong rau của bản Lóng Lăn, huyện Luang Prabang, tỉnh Luang Prabang, Lào

Lóng Lăn - bản của người H'mông nằm trên đỉnh núi 'Phu Sủng' với độ cao trên 1.200 m, đầu nguồn của T.P di sản Luang Prabang, Lào đang trồng 5 loại rau bản địa khác nhau tại những thung lũng ven rừng. Đây là nguồn cung cấp rau sạch và an toàn chủ yếu cho người tiêu thụ tại T.P Luang Prabang.

Ngày 22 tháng 6 năm 2009, Bộ Nông Lâm nghiệp Lào phối kết hợp với các cơ quan liên quan tại tỉnh Luang Prabang tổ chức kiểm tra hàm lượng độc tố trong sản phẩm rau sản xuất và bán tại T.P Luang Prabang. Qua kiểm tra, các cán bộ chuyên môn kết luận rằng 5 loại rau của bản Lóng Lăn không có độc tố.

Sự khẳng định của khoa học và chính quyền củng cố thêm sự nhận dạng của người tiêu thụ đối với các sản phẩm sinh thái. Đó là chiến lược cũng như mục tiêu hoạt động của các doanh nghiệp sinh thái cộng đồng.

Long Lan - the village of H'mong people living on top of the 'Phu Sung' mountain with 1,200 m as sea level, the watershed area of Luang Prabang heritage City, Laos are growing 5 different types of local vegies in small valies scattered in the untouched tropical forest. This is the main source of fresh and safety vegies for consumption in Luang Prabang City.

On 22 June 2009, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of Laos (MAF) in collaboration with functioning agencies of Luang Prababang province checked toxins in products of vegetable sole in Luang Prabang markets.

Through inspection, specialized staffs concluded that the five types of vegetables of Long Lan containt no toxins.

Scientific and legal confirmation encourage social recognition to ecological products. This is a 'mean' and ' goal' of community based ecological enterprises (COBEEs).
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Organizational and Institutional Development (OD/ID) for community based organizations

Organizational development for community based organizations as a process of self-improved capacity to (1) maintain the organizational value, direction and structure, and also (2) capacity in dealing with internal and external forces / changes. Whilst Insitututional Development as the advanced capacity to (resilience / resistance in a sustainable way) and/or to make influences (positive improvement and/or changes to neighborhood communities (or at large scale). This expansion in change-making could result in positive structural change at the larger system i.e. a) govemental policy, and b) market at all levels (inc. local, regional, national, and international).

Community based ecological enterprise (COBEE)

Community Based Ecological Enterprise (COBEE) is the ethnically local production chain based on values of cultural, social and ecological capitals. COBEE is a strategy to promote the spirit of voluntary, participation and transparency. This contributes to the nurture of eco-eco values towards fair share, fair distribution and security of local livelihoods and ecological return.

Political Capital (PC)

Political Capital (PC) is norms of participation and transparent democracy which create and nurture equity, equality, trust, creativeness and sustainability. It also refers to right and liability of the civics to self-determine, access, hegemonize the cultural, social, ecological and economic capitals for the common development.

Ecological Capital (EC)

Ecological Capital (EC) is understoods a values of the natural justice which nurture existence of the Cultural Capital (CC) and security of livelihoods (eco-goods, eco-services and wealth). The EC refers to: i) the privilege of nature, ii) the dignity of ownership to different forms of the natural resources.

Cultural Capital (CC)

Cultural Capital (CC) is understood as spiritual values of community which incorporates three sub-values such as: i) normative values i.e. ethics, belief or religion, ii) institutional values i.e. customary law, educational system agricultural governance, etc and, iii) norms of the daily behavior. CC is a basic for forming and nurturing social capital via pioneered voluntarily social relations.

Social Capital (SC)

Social Capital (SC) is understood as common values of the social spirit. It is building up and nurturing based on the pioneerd voluntarily social relations or social networks rooted and glued by the three sub-values of cultural capital. The social relations incorporate the essence of voluntary, mutuality, transparency and social equality. All create trust, trustworthy among soical relations. The SC results in collective action, collective will and equity of distribution from collective benefits.