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Exemplary practices

In order to be able to describe the exemplary practices, a set of dimensions for assessing the practices needs to be developed and adopted. Success stories describe practices that are socially acceptable, economically profitable and environmentally sound, and adhere the technical principles of conservation agriculture (permanent soil cover, minimal soil disturbance and crop rotations). However, the database will not only consist of best practices that score high on specific criteria, but will also feature practices that might score high on one dimension and score low on another dimension. This is the reason why the database consists of exemplary practices and not of best practices. The practices are taken from the specific situation in Lao PDR. This does not mean that it could not have any relevance to other countries and regions in the world, but transferring it to another context needs to be done with care.