Agriculture

On 10 October 2017, a meeting discussion on “Solutions to the Disputed Economic Land Concession for Sugar Cane Plantation for Exportation” in 4 provinces: Koh Kong, Kompong Speu, Preah Vihear, and Oddar Meanchey, was held at the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction, ...

The Government of Japan has agreed to provide US$242,367 to Mondulkiri Provincial Department of Rural Development for “The Project for Constructing Bridges in two Communes in Kaoh Nheaek District, Mondulkiri Province” under the framework of the Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects (“KUSANONE” Grant), ...

On 06 April 2017, Save Cambodia’s Wildlife (SCW) has released a press release on its website about “Study: Impacts of ELCs on the forest and livelihoods & SCW’s action”. In the end of 2016, SCW in cooperation with lecturers from the Royal University of Phnom ...

On 25 July 2016, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries  announced that by the end of the first half of this year, Ministry of Agriculture had collected about $600,000 in taxes from economic land concessions (ELCs) from 21 of the 233 private companies that received ...

According to a notification letter No. 956 dated 21 August 2015, the Royal Government of Cambodia agreed with 12 ELC companies, which have investment rights over land plots of 41,244 hectares in Kratie, Oddar Meanchecy and Preah Vihear provinces, to continue their activities while other ...

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) signed a host country agreement earlier this month with the Kingdom of Cambodia, the culmination of almost 20 years of support and investment in rural areas. Since 1996, over 1.2 million poor and disadvantaged rural households have benefitted ...

The Cambodian League for the Protection and Defense of Human Rights (LICADHO) is today releasing to the public its land concession dataset and urges the government to follow suit by publicly disclosing details of all land concessions granted in Cambodia. The information released is the ...

The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries will hold a press conference on Wednesday 21 January 2015 at 10:00 a.m at the Office of the Ministry to inform the public of the current management of economic land concession investment projects. ...

CSOs/NGOs and community representatives from Mondulkiri, Ratanakiri, Preah Vihear, Kampong Thom, Kampong Speu, Stung Treng and Kratie Provinces will assemble for a press conference organized by The NGO Forum on Cambodia to express their concerns about an increase in illegal logging and natural resource destruction ...

We, the undersigned civil society groups, condemn the actions of the Oddar Meanchey authorities who have, since September 2014, been engaged in the obstruction, harassment, intimidation, and assault of rights workers (see Annex 1: Timeline of Events). Most recently, a four-person team from Equitable Cambodia (“EC”) was in ...

Improvements in agriculture practices in the Mekong region and lessons for policy will be discussed at a conference in Phnom Penh this week. The conference, ‘A Policy Dialogue on Rice Futures: Rice-based Farming Systems Research in the Mekong Region’ was opened today by Australia’s Ambassador ...