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usiness models and legislative and policy frameworks (Knowledge and Exchange Platform forResponsible Agro-Investment (RAI) website).In sum, the current global policy context, with its high level of interest in land-related agriculturalinvestments and appreciation of the role of private sector companies in supporting improvements inlivelihoods and sustainable natural resource management for long-term development, provides apotentially unique moment in which to push forward gender and equity concerns onto the mainstreampolicy-making agenda. Backed by the evidence-base presented in the most recent SOFA, there can beno doubt of the central importance of ensuring that gender and equity issues are properly andcoherently addressed in all agricultural development policies, programmes and strategies. This casestudy of selected agricultural investment in Lao PDR demonstrates the clear value of bringing groundlevelevidence of good practice from the field into these policy debates.53