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The​ first​ Environmental​ Impact​ Assessment​ (EIA)​ portal​ in​ Cambodia

15 March 2019
Authors: 
Ms. Chanthearyradh Thao
Cambodia
Land, Climate Change & Environment
environment
extractive industries
land
sustainable development

Cambodia​ aims​ to​ fasten​ its​ economic​ growth​ while​ fully​ committing​ to​ sustainable​ development.​ To​ avoid​ adverse​ impacts​ from​ the​ development​ and​ promote​ long​ term​ benefits​ to​ economic,​ social​ and​ environmental​ change,​ the​ practice​ of​ Environmental​ Impact​ Assessment​ (EIA)​ shall​ be​ enforced.​ And​ since​ EIA​ has​ become​ an​ essential​ feature​ of​ sustainable​ development​ for​ improving​ well-being​ and​ equity​ from​ the​ development,​ the​ public​ must​ fully​ participate​ in​ policy​ debates​ and​ seek​ legal​ redress​ and​ claim​ what​ they​ dese

This map draws on Chinese infrastructure project location data from AidData and forest cover loss data from Hansen et al. (2013).

AIDDATA Published Geocoded Dataset on Chinese Financing in Ecological Hotspots

Cambodia
China
Tanzania
Land, Climate Change & Environment
environment
forestry
land investments

Conservationists and environmental advocacy groups have warned that the nature, pace and scale of Chinese-funded infrastructure projects in the developing world may lead to unintended environmental consequences, especially in so-called “ecological hotspots.” Until now, there has been no systematic, large-scale evidence that confronts the causal claim that Chinese-funded development projects have

Land grabs and the International Criminal Court: will Cambodia’s kleptocrats finally face justice?

Cambodia
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
land law
legal empowerment
property law
property rights

On 15th September the International Criminal Court broadened its process for selecting and prioritising cases to include land grabbing and environmental destruction. The decision presents an opportunity to curb the deforestation and rights abuses driven by illegally-issued agricultural concessions in Cambodia, likely to be the court’s first credible case. It also has important implications for other countries suffering from the worst excesses of illegal deforestation. Neil Loughlin and Tom Johnson report.

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Is land governance a regional issue?

South-Eastern Asia
Cambodia
Laos
Myanmar
Thailand
Vietnam
concession (land)
land governance
natural resources management

This blog was written as a contribution to the Mekong Regional Land Forum taking place from June 21-23 in Hanoi, Vietnam. Philip Hirsch is a keynote speaker at this event.

By Philip Hirsch, Professor of Human Geography in the School of Geosciences at the University of Sydney

7 Unexpected Places for Forest Landscape Restoration

26 May 2019
Authors: 
Katie Reytar
Angola
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Uruguay
United States of America
Cambodia
India
Ireland
Forest Landscape Restoration
deforestation
environment
forest conservation
forest land
forest management plans
land governance

By Katie Reytar 

This is the second installment of WRI’s blog series, New Perspectives on Restoration. The series aims to share WRI’s views on restoration, dispel myths, and explore restoration opportunities throughout the world.

Women leaders protecting their land for the next generation

3 May 2019
South-Eastern Asia
Cambodia
Land & Gender
agriculture
food security
gender equity in access to land
land governance
land rights
land tenure
natural resources management
tenure security
sustainable development
women

By Chris Hufstader

 

After an audacious land grab by a foreign company, indigenous women in a remote Cambodian village struggle to regain their farms and sacred sites.

Sol Preng remembers vividly the day in 2012 when bulldozers unexpectedly arrived on her family farm.

“The company came and cleared away our cashew trees right before the harvest,” she says. “I lost four hectares of land and all my cashew trees.”

PUSHING LAND GRABS UP THE ANTI-CORRUPTION AGENDA

Authors: 
Megan MacInnes
Cambodia
Land & Corruption
VGGT
corruption
land acquisitions
land grabbing

At last month’s International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC) in Malaysia, I co-hosted a panel on land grabbing and corruption with Transparency International. This global annual event gathers together governments, civil society, enforcement agencies, journalists and others to discuss ways of tackling corruption. This year’s IACC focused on ending impunity – a problem which has helped make land grabbing prolific and very hard to tackle.

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