Community-based Agricultural Development Planning (CADP):Engaging farming communities into participatory land use planning

The Eco-Friendly Intensification and Climate-resilient Agricultural Systems (EFICAS) project was an action-research project jointly implemented by CIRAD (Centre de cooperation Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Developpement) and DALaM (Department of Agricultural Land Management under Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of Lao PDR) and co-funded by The French Development Agency (AFD) and the European Union (EU) from 2014 to 2019.The EFICAS project aimed to engage farming communities into the participatory design of agro-ecological alternatives for sustainable agricultural intensification in the mountainous provinces of northern Laos. Over the past 5 years, the project has been working on how to translate the participatory land use planning (PLUP) into action plans and notably into Community-based Agricultural Development Plans (CADPs) which is an adaptive learning process.This manual - from the EFICAS Know-How Series - aims to provide to field practitioners basic information and tips on how successfully plan, implement, and monitor a CADP.