Village forestry: Being connected to many NTFPs, village forestry needs support for conservation, management, and marketing of products.
• Mushrooms: Wild mushrooms are lucrative but need support for habitat protection, farmer organization, and marketing.
• Crispy Riverweed: Already a well-known product, loss of habitat suggests efforts are needed on production in new areas or different ways.
• Seed storage and banks: Community efforts to conserve and promote local cultivars of rice needs technical support.
• Beekeeping: The huge potential for Lao honey exists if marketing, quality control and expansion of beekeeping can be achieved.
• Wild Tea: The ancient tea trees are now a source of tea expansion that needs protection, farmer organization, and equitable market support.