Deforestation impacts

B. Tangko (1408045)

Samuoi District, Saravane

CLIMATE CHANGE & DISASTERS

ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

PRIORITIES & NEEDS

  1. Training and awareness raising (Food source)

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Ecosystem & Services:

  • - Rice
  • - Maize
  • - Livestock
  • - Coffee
  • - Vegetables
  • - River

Sources of Income:

  • - Subsistence agriculture
  • - Livestock
  • - Casual labor

Education:

  • - Kindergarten
  • - Primary incomplete
  • - Primary
Basic Services

IMPACTS:

Health / Agriculture / Livestock

Changes over the past 30 years

DRY SEASON

Slight Decrease

Some increase

WET SEASON

Slight Decrease

Some increase

Water-bourne:

  • Allergies
  • Diarrhea
  • Eye
  • Skin

HEALTH

Vector-bourne:

  • Dengue
  • Encephalitis
  • Malaria

  • More than 1 per year
  • Homes
  • Infrastructure
  • Life
  • Income
  • More frequent
  • More than 1 per year
  • Food
  • Crops
  • More severe

No Landslides
  • 1 per year
  • livelihoods
  • More severe


   No deforestation activity

AGE: 0-17 18-56 >56

51%

29%

18%

4%

23%

22%

4%

49%

DEMOGRAPHICS

Population (2017):

703

Main ethnic group:

Kado

Other ethnic group:

Kanay

Religion:

Animism

Hazard Intensity: 2.33

Sensitivity: 3.33

Ranking: 7.78

VULNERABILITY INDEX

Hydropower impacts

   No hydropower dam

Mining impacts

   No mining activity