• Pilleurs de Terre : à qui profite l’impunité ?
    • Pressenza
    • 14 October 2024

    Pilleurs de Terre est un long-métrage documentaire réalisé par Fanny Paloma Escobar, qui suit les luttes des communautés autochtones contre les accaparements de terres par des filiales du groupe Bolloré, au Cambodge et au Cameroun. À travers cette interview, elle partage son parcours, les défis de la réalisation, et ses espoirs pour l’avenir de son film.

  • Food security to be a core business for Mega First
    • The Edge
    • 03 July 2024

    Malaysia's MEGA First Corp Bhd has 1,830ha of coconut trees and 730ha of macadamia trees planted in Mondulkiri province, Cambodia, where it has slightly more than 6,000ha of concession land.

  • Koh Kong’s Chorng Indigenous People struggle with arrests and lawsuits in REDD+ zone
    • CamboJa News
    • 03 July 2024

    Chorng indigenous community, who live around Cardamom Mountain National Park in Koh Kong province, Cambodia, experienced difficulties obtaining forest products or practicing rotational farming near their village as they have been informed that those areas are in the REDD+ zone, although there was no clear boundary.

  • Investigation confirms more abuses on Cameroon, Sierra Leone Socfin plantations
    • Mongabay
    • 27 June 2024

    Earthworm investigators told Mongabay they were shocked by some of their findings of sexual harassment and gender-based violence on Socfin's plantations. "If they don’t make progress on these issues, we would stop working with them, as that’s our mission as a foundation.”

  • The Bunong people's land struggle with Socfin
    • GRAIN
    • 30 April 2024

    Local communities in Mondulkiri province have been struggling to get their land back since 2008, when the Luxembourg-based Socfin group secured 12,000 hectares of their lands.

  • Vietnamese firm mulls multimillion-dollar agri-investment in Cambodia
    • Khmer Times
    • 25 April 2024

    The Vietnamese conglomerate’s regional expansion will include 11,600 hectares dedicated to intensive banana production across the four new farms, two of which will be in Cambodia.

  • Activist charged with inciting unrest among villagers
    • Khmer Times
    • 08 April 2024

    Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday charged Keut Saray, the president of Khmer Students Intelligent League Association (KSILA), for inciting villagers embroiled in land disputes in Preah Vihear province to resist provincial authorities and the government.

  • Dozens of Cambodians charged in land dispute: activist
    • AFP
    • 13 Mar 2024

    A Cambodian court has charged 29 people with illegally occupying state land following an incident in which authorities fired live rounds in a crackdown on a longstanding land dispute.

  • Loggers have ‘grabbed’ around 1m hectares of Indigenous land in DRC
    • Carbon Brief
    • 12 Mar 2024

    A new study identifies around 18m hectares of land in Cambodia, Colombia and the DRC that have been acquired in large-scale deals for logging, intensive agriculture, fossil-fuel extraction and mining.

  • Provincial authorities use weapons in Preah Vihear land dispute, nearly 30 residents detained
    • CamboJa News
    • 12 Mar 2024

    At least 30 residents have been charged by provincial court in Cambodia for allegedly illegally occupying state land. The detention stems from an incident when authorities mounted a mass crackdown during a clash over a long-disputed land. The authorities said the land belonged to a rubber company called Seladamex, having received an economic land concession (ELC) from the state.

  • Cambodge : les communautés récupèrent leurs terres
    • CCFD-TS
    • 05 Mar 2024

    Dans la province de Koh Kong, au Cambodge, des communautés locales luttent depuis 2006 contre l’accaparement de leurs terres. Après un long combat, un accord historique avec l’entreprise Tate & Lyle a permis la restitution d’une partie des terres et l’obtention d’une compensation financière

  • Indigenous kuy people block outsiders from clearing farmland in Preah Vihear
    • Camboja News
    • 17 January 2024

    The site of the dispute is part of a 42,420 hectares economic land concession that was granted to the Chinese company Hengfu Group Sugar Industry in 2011.

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