Cambodia

Vietnam's HAGL Agrico, which has 18,000ha of agricultural land worth about US$400 million in Ratanakiri province northeast Cambodia, has shipped its first batch of fresh bananas from its Cambodia plant to China

Villagers believe that local authorities have illegally conspired to sell a large part of the forest to Hamenivent

Kratie provincial authorities have resolved a land dispute between more than 1,800 families and the Memot Rubber Plantation Company in Snuol district’s Pi Thnou commune.

Ninety-five out of the 317 families who were locked in a long-running land dispute with sugar company since 2006 in Cambodia accepted the solution to end the dispute under a compromise negotiated by the Koh Kong provincial authority.

Le tribunal français « invite » chaque paysan à communiquer avant le 20 janvier 2020 « tout document officiel établissant l’existence, la nature, la localisation, la surface exacte et le référencement de la ou des terres dont il est demandé la restitution », « tout document notarié, individualisé et officiel établissant la propriété de chacun sur la ou les terres revendiquées » et « tout document justifiant de l’état civil de chacun ».

Eighty Bunongs farmers from Mondol Kiri, a province in the east of Cambodia – who are accusing the French industrialist Vincent Bolloré of grabbing their lands in 2008 to make way for rubber plantations, will have to prove their identity and show land titles by 20 January 2020 according to an order issued on 8 November by French court.

This brings the total number of Cambodian banana plantations approved to export to China up to nine, representing a total planting area of around 10,000 hectares.

Recently some articles have been released in the French and Cambodian press regarding a procedure contesting our responsible management and Bolloré’s alleged liability in our activities in Cambodia (1-10-2019).

Representatives of 24 indigenous groups from 15 provinces of Cambodia urge the government to solve their outstanding land dispute and expedite the process of registering their collective farmland to prevent private companies grabbing it.

French lawyer Fiodor Rilov's account the lawsuit brought by Bunong communities from eastern Cambodia against Bolloré group.

Récit de l'avocat français Fiodor Rilov sur le procès intenté par les communautés Bunong, de l'est du Cambodge, contre le groupe Bolloré

Dez cambodjanos estiveram na terça-feira, 1, num tribunal de Paris para serem ouvidos na primeira audiência do julgamento do caso em que 80 camponeses reivindicam, desde 2010, a devolução das suas terras ocupadas pela Socfin do magnata francês Vincent Bolloré.