Cambodia

800 people in Kampong Thom province staged a protest against a Korean company that is trying to clear their trees and farmland, to produce rubber and cassava, without offering any compensation.

Bangladesh wants to invest in growing rice in Cambodia for future exports back to Bangladesh and has requested long-term land leases for up to 99 years, such as Cambodia has already granted to other countries.

Proceedings of the November 2010 workshop bringing together a wide range of NGO representatives from around Cambodia and overseas.

Wie sich DWS-Fonds der Deutschen Bank am "Land Crapping" beteiligen

Dans une résolution adoptée en session plénière à Strasbourg, les députés s'en prennent vivement à la "politique brutale d'accaparement des terres au détriment essentiellement des pauvres, l'étouffement de toute forme de critique et de protestation."

Indian rice exporter Amira Group plans to acquire 25,000 hectares of agricultural land in Cambodia, and is discussing further farnland acquisitions with the governments of Angola and Sierra Leone.

The key highlights of the forum will focus on the rising pros­pects in the global agricultural busi­ness, land utilisation and acquisition policies.

Some projects aimed at increasing food production in Asia have been dropped or delayed amid the financial crisis, notes a new report by IRRI and the Asia Society.

“The EU is effectively subsidizing land grabbing in Cambodia by giving preferential treatment to companies that have produced goods on stolen land,” says David Pred, BABC executive director

In Cambodia, an assessment of the impact of foreign farmland acquisitions has been hampered by a lack of data, including the total number of concessions awarded and an accurate set of GPS coordinates for each concession, the World Bank says.

HLH Agriculture is a Singaporean firm running 10,000 ha project in Cambodia to produce corn for export to Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan and Thailand.

New private equity fund targets Cambodia’s still-developing agriculture sector