Cambodia

Koh Kong communities protest sugar land concessions
- Licadho
- 06 Mar 2018
More than 100 villagers from communities affected by land grabbing in Koh Kong’s Sre Ambel district demonstrated outside a factory owned by Koh Kong Sugar Industry Co. Ltd.
Les entreprises vietnamiennes appelées à investir au Cambodge
- Courrier du Vietnam
- 28 February 2018
Le Cambodge souhaite que les entreprises vietnamiennes spécialisées dans la production de noix de cajou viennent investir au Cambodge dans la culture d’anacardiers sur ses terres agricoles appropriées au développement de cet arbre.
Cambodia killings show rising risk to Southeast Asian land defenders
- Reuters
- 06 February 2018
Last week's killing of Cambodian forest defenders, and the recent shooting of Indonesian farmers, show the increasing involvement of state forces in quelling dissent against agribusiness, campaigners said.
APC condemns Heng Fu's land grabbing in Cambodia
- APC
- 05 February 2018
Asian Peasant Coalition strongly condemns the repression and land grabbing carried out by the Chinese company Hengfu Group Sugar Industry Co., Ltd. against the indigenous Kuy people of Preah Vihear, Cambodia.
Women land defenders in Asia need more protection as violence rises - rights groups
- Reuters
- 10 December 2017
From Cambodia to the Philippines, women land rights defenders face increasing levels of violence and intimidation
Cashew nut joint venture to invest USD100 million on processing plant
- Khmer Times
- 06 December 2017
Malaysia's Camcashew Company and South Korean Naroo Marine Company will invest $100 million in a cashew nut export project in Kampong Cham province, including a 4,000 ha plantation and a 40,000 ha contract farming scheme.
L’accaparement des terres : Complicité impunie des acteurs luxembourgeois et européens
- Cercle de Coopération
- 05 December 2017
« Plus de 800 000 hectares de terres ont été confisqués par des sociétés et des fonds domiciliés au Luxembourg, ce qui place notre petit Etat en tête des pays européens complices de l’accaparement des terres. »
Israelis to build dairy factory
- Khmer Times
- 27 November 2017
A group of Israeli investors plans to invest in Cambodia’s dairy industry. The group has chosen Takeo province to raise a herd of 500 cattle over 300 hectares of land as the first phase of their plans in Cambodia.
Women lead sugar fight as Cambodia sours on land deals
- Reuters
- 09 November 2017
About 40,000 hectares, home to 25 villages and nearly 25,000 people, were leased to Chinese sugar companies in 2011, in Preah Vihear province, Cambodia, leaving many with nothing.
Small-scale farmers will suffer under draft agricultural law: advocates
- Phnom Penh Post
- 08 November 2017
Farmers and agricultural NGOs in Cambodia slammed the seventh and final draft of a controversial agricultural law. A representative of farmer network said the law makes it easier for government to offer land to private companies.
Sugar firm denies role in suspending NGO
- Phnom Penh Post
- 02 October 2017
A sugar company involved in a land dispute in Kampong Speu province rebuffed suggestions that it is in part responsible for the temporary shuttering of land rights NGO Equitable Cambodia.
No sweet deal: Community resists Chinese sugarcane land grab
- PANAP
- 02 October 2017
“Before the company came to clear our lands, nobody in Prame ever experienced hunger,” villagers from Preah Vihear Province, Cambodia tell PANAP.