Cambodia

After Canada, Denmark, Finland and the World Bank, Germany is ending its work on land rights in Cambodia, a strong indictment of the government’s at­titude toward land grabbing.

Kurt Langbein, director of a documentary film, “Land Grabbing“ visits the scenes of land grabs and talks to farmers, local communities and to the investors behind the schemes. The injustice of this destructive “development” model could not be clearer.

Jef Boedt, general manager of Socfin Cambodia, explains the company’s investment in Cambodia and operating challenges linked to land rights.

South Korean-owned Welt Bio Co. Ltd. is investing $40 million in a black pepper plantation in Mondulkiri, Cambodia, which is being described as the largest in the world.

French owned plantation firm Socfin has restarted talks with indigenous villagers affected by its plantations in Mondulkiri province, Cambodia, with the UN saying the process could be replicated across a region dominated by agro-industrial firms.

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.