Cambodia

Land lies at the center of debates about Cambodia’s socio-economic development. Despite urbanization tendencies, agriculture remains the main source of income for over three quarter of the population. For farmers in the fertile lowlands, private land ownership rights have enabled recovery of their livelihoods after decades of violent conflict. Meanwhile, the resource-rich uplands and border areas have been the site of large-scale land acquisitions for cash crop production and extractive industries.

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17,652,000 ha

3,869.5 USD

16,249,798

23.4 %

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31.5 %

52.1 %

322,000 ha

8.6 %

2,243,679 ha

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Major clothing brands contribute to deforestation in Cambodia, report finds

3 December 2021

A new report suggests that the garment industry is contributing to deforestation in Cambodia due to factories relying on illegal forest wood to generate electricity. Garment factories were found to use at least 562 tons of forest wood every day, the equivalent of up to 1,418 hectares (3,504 acres)…

Data Story on Deforestation in Cambodia: A story of land concessions, migration and resource exploitation

24 September 2021

Courting justice: when legal challenges to corporate land grabs go wrong

11 August 2021

In July 2021, a French court ruled against a group of Indigenous Bunong farmers from Mondulkiri in Northeastern Cambodia. Represented by French Laywer Fiodor Rilov, and with civil society support, the group accused the French Bolloré Group and their subsidiary company, Compagnie du Cambodge …

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projects

Supporting Implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests

Value: $15,281,096.00

Donors: Government of Belgium

Influencing for Sustainable Natural Resources Governance

Donors: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Land Allocation for Social and Economic Development

Donors: World Bank Group

Support to Community Forestry and Fishery

Value: $2,200,000.00

Donors: Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation

Contribution to the protection of land rights II

Value: $6,240,000.00

Donors: German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development

Improvement of livelihoods and food security of former landless households in Cambodia

Value: $1,100,000.00

Donors: German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development

Customary practices undermine principles of joint ownership in male-headed households and gender-biased norms often prevent women from exercising or claiming their rights to the land.

New book on Mekong examines key land issues featuring extensive research

8 December 2021

Curating land information is part of our daily work in the Land Portal. It includes selecting, categorizing, and enriching information with analysis and/or additional data, graphic visualizations, etc. In times with so much information available to choose from, people are increasingly seeking…

WEBINARS: Capturing Knowledge from the Implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Governance of Tenure (VGGT)

Over the past nine years, the project on Supporting Implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests (VGGT)has helped countries make political commitments towards the eradication of hunger, food insecurity, and malnutrition, with the…