This paper looks at the (re)shaping of local institutional arrangements within the context of land use planning processes in Laos, bringing to light their dynamic and co-constitutive relationship. Taking Pa Khom village in Houaphan province as a case study, it examines how local tenure institutions are (re)produced, (re)assembled and adapted to mirror farmer’s livelihood strategies to meet households’ food security, while also conforming to the defined land use plan. Drawing on examples of changes in swidden agriculture and village grazing land arrangements introduced as part of land use planning, the paper highlights the important role played by local communities – acting autonomously, collectively and in relation to external agents – in reconfiguring the relationship between natural resources and institutional orders. It illustrates how farmers employ institutional bricolage to creatively assemble and reshape their land use arrangements to comply with the defined land use plan, thus ensuring it meets their locally embedded livelihood priorities, albeit with different distributional outcomes for various farm households. Linking farm households’ strategies with inter-household and village level institutional arrangements, the paper shows how institutional bricolage contributes to synergizing the different rationales behind land use planning processes.

本文着眼于老挝土地利用规划过程中地方制度安排的（重新）塑造，并揭示了它们之间动态的，协同的关系。以胡阿潘省的帕孔村为例，研究了如何（重新）生产，（重新）组装和改编当地的土地保有权机构，以反映农民的生计策略，以满足家庭的粮食安全，同时还符合定义的土地用途计划。借鉴土地利用规划中引入的水耕农业和乡村牧场布局变化的例子，该论文强调了地方社区在重新配置自然资源之间的关系方面的重要作用-自主，集体和与外部行为有关和机构命令。它说明了农民如何运用机构权限来创造性地整理和重塑他们的土地使用安排，以符合既定的土地使用计划，从而确保其满足当地的生计重点，尽管对各个农户的分配结果不同。通过将农户的策略与家庭间和村级机构安排联系起来，本文显示了机构贿赂如何促进土地使用规划过程背后的不同原理的协同作用。