Cambodia

Cambodia: Rural poor lose out in land deals
- IRIN
- 04 October 2012
Since 2000, 27 million hectares of land were bought by foreign and domestic companies throughout Asia, making it the second most targeted region for land deals after Africa.
Cambodia: Three MoUs on investment in mineral and agricultural fields signed
- AKP
- 27 September 2012
Three MoUs on investment in mineral exploration and sugar cane plantation in Cambodia were signed last weekend in China’s Guangxi province at the Forum on Potential Investment and Business Opportunities in Cambodia.
Cambodia: Global advocates see land grab protester convictions as harassment
- WNN
- 25 September 2012
The land grab in Cambodia is creating an underclass of landless citizens who have no stake in society and nothing left to lose. Recourse to the law is not an option.
The great Cambodian giveaway
- Trust.org
- 21 September 2012
Cambodia is in the grips of a prolonged land grabbing crisis, a slow-motion calamity that has seen over 2.1 million hectares of land – roughly the total area of Wales – transferred mostly from subsistence farmers into the hands of industrial agriculture firms.
Sri Lanka’s Touchwood acquires land in Cambodia to set up an agricultural project
- News360.lk
- 10 September 2012
Sri Lanka’s Touchwood Investments PLC has acquired 11,138 hectares of land in Cambodia to set up an agricultural project to plant rubber and other crops.
APWLD Forum News on landgrabbing
- APWLD
- 31 August 2012
The Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development has published a special issue of its bulletin on landgrabbing, its impacts on women and their resistance, across the Asia Pacific region.
Hoe groot mag het offer zijn?
- Trouw
- 23 August 2012
Vruchtbaar en goedkoop land is gewild. In Afrika jagen zakenlui op dit 'groene goud'. Trouw schreef er een serie over. Ook in de Mekong-regio in Zuidoost-Aziëwordt land van bewoners afgepakt, vooral voor de rubberproductie. Foute zaak, zeggen mensenrechtenclubs. Maar de autoriteiten zijn blij met de investeerders.
Stolen land, stolen future
- Greens/EFA
- 22 August 2012
Film inspired by an APRODEV report on land grabbing in Cambodia
Der große Landraub
- Misereor
- 06 August 2012
Doch wie erleben Kleinbauern und Ureinwohner vor Ort die Landnahme der Investoren? Thomas Kruchem hat in Uganda, Kambodscha, Argentinien, den Philippinen und Äthiopien recherchiert.
Cambodia’s deadly land grab battle
- chinadialogue
- 24 July 2012
Cambodia is a microcosm of a violent struggle playing out across the globe for control of a shrinking – and therefore increasingly valuable – pool of natural resources.
Land concession cancelled by PM
- Phnom Penh Post
- 23 July 2012
The Cambodian government has cancelled a 14,981-hectare concession in the Cardamom mountains granted to an Australian firm for a banana plantation.
Is the European Commission sweet on land grabbing? Trade benefits, sugarcane concessions and dispossession in Cambodia
- Terra Nullius
- 23 July 2012
In the last five years, land concessions totaling tens of thousands of hectares have been granted to private companies for industrial sugarcane production in Cambodia.