Two Singaporean agriculture and property group, HLH and Select Group has acquired a 30 per cent interest in two plots of lands in Cambodia through its subsidiary.
Vietnamese company Hoang Anh Gia Lai Group has invested in Cambodia so that it could have large areas for mechanized and automatic dairy farming.
Global Witness says Cambodia’s ongoing land crisis is part of a larger global trend, one driven by economics and resource shortages.
Some six years after about 2,000 families were pushed off 19,000 hectares of land that was converted to plantation for sugarcane, which is processed into sugar used by Coca-Cola.
Rights groups say the government has failed to give compensation and prevent the victims of forced evictions from being dragged into poverty
This paper aims to study the situation of land grabbing and its impacts on small-scale farmers in 5 countries, namely Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.
La silence du groupe SOCFIN a mené à une nouvelle série de mobilisations dans les différents pays dès le mois d’Avril 2015, qui se sont achevées par des actions lors des assemblées générales du groupe Socfin puis Bolloré.
Cambodian land concessions granted to companies last year affected nearly 80,000 people, displacing many of them and increasing poverty according to a new report by NGO Forum on Cambodia.
Series of video clips by filmmaker Kalyanee Mam explore the social and environmental issues related to deforestation, land grabbing, industrial agriculture, and overfishing in Cambodia.
Issues of land and corruption are intricately linked. Over the last decade increasing commercial demand for land has made the sector more vulnerable to corrupt abuse by those in a position to own or control land.
Cambodia government has announced a new review of economic land concessions, shortening the period of some from 99 years to 50 years. Land concessions to private enterprises over the years has creating thousands of land disputes and causing many people to become displaced.
Twenty-three companies holding a total of 90,682 hectares in Cambodia economic land concessions (ELCs) have had their concessions rescinded, while another 20 are being monitored.
