Resolution on land tenure, June 1988.
In June 1988, a Resolution on land tenure was adopted at the sixth plenum of the Communist Party Central Committee of Laos, also attended by the Government's Council of Ministers.  The Resolution states that, although land still belongs to the Government, actions are to be taken to distribute lands and forests to each village and assign plots to individual families, rather than to cooperatives.  Farmers are to be allowed to sell or use what they produce as they choose and can pass land on to their children or transfer it to other farmers by charging for their investments for improving the soil.
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