Banong Families Receive Communal Land Tiles
Seventy-two ethnic minorities Banong families received communal titles to a combined 1,008 hectares of ancestral land in Mondolkiri province yesterday morning in a ceremony attended by Land Management Minister Chhun Lim. Communal titles were designed to protect the ancestral lands of the country’s minorities from outside developers, and yesterday’s titles were only the fourth or fifth to be issued since they were established by the 2001 Land Law. … Besides the spirit forests, the titles will protect the communities’ traditional rotational farmland, residential land and land held in reserve for future generations for farming and living. …
