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By: Catherine Harry
Date: January 28th 2016
Source: Phnom Penh Post
As Cambodia slowly shifts away from labour-intensive agriculture, mechanised farming needs to take hold to sustain productivity.
Despite an overall increase of 39 per cent in rice exports in 2015 compared to 2014, unstable…
By: Hour Hum
Date: February 2nd 2016
Source: Radio Free Asia
Villagers in Cambodia’s Pailin province are accusing authorities of allowing a powerful local police officer to grab nearly two hectares of mountainous public land for his own use.
A villager from Pailin's Steung Kach commune who…
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With limited land, access to it has been a prevailing issue which leads to human rights violations to farmers, and to the disadvantaged women and indigenous peoples.
These Land Watch Asia (LWA)’s Lok Niti journals compile scoping studies from seven…
By: Zsombor Peter
Date: February 4th 2016
Source: Cambodia Daily
After more than 20 years, Germany is ending its work with the Land Management Ministry on land rights projects in frustration over the government’s slow reforms—another black eye for a sector at the center of some of the country’s…
By: Niem Chheng
Date: February 8th 2016
Source: Phnom Penh Post
The Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction issued a statement on Saturday defending its track record and denying that Germany ended its support for the ministry’s land rights program due to a lack of…
Date: February 7th 2016
Source: Rainforest Rescue
Cambodia exports sugar worth millions to Europe under an EU trade deal. The initiative, which was intended to fight poverty in developing countries, has led the sugar industry to grab the land of 12,000 Cambodian small farmers and their families,…
By: Chea Vannak
Date: February 12th 2016
Source: Khmer Times
The collective land of indigenous communities in Cambodia will continue to face encroachment from economic land concessions and the actions of private companies in the future despite the Cambodian Government’s moratorium on granting ELC…
By: Zsombor Peter and Aun Pheap
Date: February 12th 2016
Source: The Cambodia Daily
A Thai environmental auditing firm has confirmed that it is assessing the fallout from a trio of plantations in Oddar Meanchey province that Thai sugar giant Mitr Phol abandoned in late 2014 amid mounting…
By: Lay Samean and Jack Davies
Date: March 1st 2016
Source: Phnom Penh Post
While vast tracts of Cambodia remain concentrated in the hands of a few and accusations of land grabbing remain rife, the broader distribution of land is more than equitable and could never lead to an uprising, the…
By: Lauren Crothers
Date: March 15th 2016
Source: News Fulton County
Since 2013, exports of sugar to European Union plummeted by nearly 95 percent on back of litany of rights abuses
PHNOM PENH — Cambodian exports of sugar to the European Union have plummeted by nearly 95 percent since 2013, as…
By: Niem Chheng and Mech Dara
Date: March 17th 2016
Source: Phnom Penh Post
Judicial officials from across the country will converge on Phnom Penh on Friday to report on the use of pre-trial detention for land dispute victims, it was announced yesterday.
The meeting, publicised by a Justice…
By: Sek Odom and George Wright
Date: March 23rd 2016
Source: The Cambodia Daily
With the threat of eviction hanging over businesses on Sihanoukville’s O’Chheuteal and O’Tres beaches, land rights advocates congregated in Phnom Penh this week to give voice to thousands of families locked in land…