Fish farmers operating cage culture, Cambodia. Photo by O. Joffre/WorldFish, taken on 3 October 2009. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.Aquaculture production has grown significantly. In 2012 it stood at 74,000 tonnes, or almost 11 percent of total fishery production. By 2016 it had grown to href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/fish-farming-and-aquaculture/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

State public land has a public interest value or provides a public service. The land is inalienable, although it can be leased for limited uses that do not alter or damage its public value. State public land should only be reclassified if the land no href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/state-public-land/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Artisanal mining is small-scale mining that typically involves individuals, family groups or small communities, often working with limited technology. The mining may be seasonal, fitted around other work such as farming. There is a large overlap between this type of activity and gemstone mining. Artisanal href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/artisanal-mining/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A joint investigative committee will be established to re-examine the killing of activist Chut Wutty and military police officer In Rattana, the head of the armed forces told the Post yesterday, after providing his own version of the incident to radio. Pressure from the families of victims and href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chut-wutty-death-to-be-examined-by-committee/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Agriculture has been considered as the backbone of the national economy. Of the total population, 76% were living in rural areas and agriculture provided 31.2% of total employment and contributed 20.7% to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2019.16 However, the global pandemic caused by COVID-19 href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/cambodias-agriculture-sector-amid-covid-19/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian fish farmer checking on fish quality. Photo by U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), taken on 16 October 2012. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.Cambodia’s inland capture fisheries are among the largest in the world. The fishing industry encompasses subsistence, commercial and recreational fishing, as href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/fishing-fisheries-and-aquaculture/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The purpose of this contest is to encourage professionals, researchers, and students, especially those who identify as Indigenous Peoples, to demonstrate the value of data through effective visual data storytelling, and to contribute to the open data community by increasing the accessibility of information on href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/cambodia-data-driven-storytelling-contest/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Yesterday a Reuters news story, “Insight: China gambles on Cambodia’s shrinking forests,” which also ran in today’s Phnom Penh Post and Cambodia Daily, mentioned Open Development Cambodia, and suggested that we are partnering with a local advocacy group to track concessions. This is not accurate. Like href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/revision-for-reuters/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has published a new dataset on “official result of voter registration for preparing new voter lists 2016”.  This dataset shows the data of voter registration in 25 provinces and capital across the country including name of provinces/capital, total number of commune/sangkat and href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/open-development-cambodia-publishes-a-new-dataset%e2%80%8b-on%e2%80%8b-official-result-of-voter-registration-for-preparing-new-voter-lists-2016/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has published a new dataset on “temporary number of voter turnout in the commune election (2017)”. This dataset shows temporary number of voter turnout during the 4th mandate of commune/sangkat council election which is contained the data of voter turnout in 25 href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/open-development-cambodia-publishes-a-new-dataset%e2%80%8b-on-temporary-number-of-voter-turnout-in-the-commune-election-2017/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has published a new online resource on “Zoning Guidelines on Protected Areas in Cambodia”, the draft final version released by Ministry of Environment.​ The guidelines are created for all stakeholders to use as a reference in defining and allocating the four href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/open-development-cambodia-publishes-a-new-online-resources-on-drafting-of-zoning-guidelines-on-protected-areas-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

On 7 September 2023, the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR), the Cambodian Human Rights and Development Association (ADHOC), and the Solidarity Center announced the release of the 2022 Annual Report of the Cambodia Fundamental Freedoms Monitor produced by the Fundamental Freedoms Monitoring Project (FFMP).The href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/joint-press-release-on-cambodia-fundamental-freedoms-monitor-2022-annual-report/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodia Red Cross (CRC) is the principal humanitarian society in Cambodia. The government has designated it as an auxiliary to public bodies offering humanitarian assistance. In addition to the national headquarters, the CRC has 25 branches.91 CRC was founded in 1955 and has worked href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/red-cross/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister of Cambodia, Hun Sen, and other Cambodian Ministers were at the Aid for Trade Global Review 2019. Photo by World Trade Organization (WTO), taken on 03 July 2019. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.After two decades of strong economic performance, Cambodia moved into the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/exports/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

There are four major international donors to land rights development and reform in Cambodia: the World Bank, Germany, Finland and Canada. Their support spans multiple programs and several years with the overall objective of improving land tenure security and promoting stable land markets. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/land-tenure-and-land-titling-ngos/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Firewood and charcoal are the main sources of energy for households and many small and medium enterprises, such as brick and tile industries. The cooking fuels used in Cambodia have changed greatly in the last decade. The National Census 2008 showed that 91 percent of href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/cooking-fuel/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has published a new profile page on “Environmental impact assessments”. This page shows completed environmental and social impact assessment reports (EIAs). The reports contain information such as company profile, address, registered investment capital, company registration date and code, contract duration, project size, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/open-development-cambodia-publishes-a-new-profile-page-on-environmental-impacts-assessments/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun Sen has called on unions, employers and the Ministry of Labour to take a collaborative approach to stamping out violent protests in the garment industry, a unionist said yesterday. During a Saturday conference involving 4,000 people from more than 60 union groups, Hun href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/garment-sector-peace-sought/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday blamed soaring food prices on fuel prices set by oil cartels like OPEC, appealing to oil-producing countries to pay attention to the connection between food security and energy. Cambodia imports 100 per cent of its oil, and the majority of agriculture href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pm-announces-oil-food-equation-hurting-poor/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian government has cancelled a 14,981-hectare concession in the Cardamom mountains granted to an Australian firm for a banana plantation, the conservation group Wildlife Alliance has reported. Wildlife Alliance has long lobbied against the concession in Koh Kong province’s southern cardamom forest on which Indochina href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/land-concession-cancelled-by-pm/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...