Property rights threatened, NGOs claim

24 July 2012
The Phnom Penh Post
Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Civil society / Economic land concessions and plantations / Human rights / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Law and judiciary / Laws and regulations / Public land lease / Social development
agricultural land law / agricultural land leases / coalition / criminal sanctions / draft / FAO / jail / Land Law / law / property rights / society groups / The Law on the Management and Use of Agricultural Land / UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization

A draft agricultural land law threatens to eliminate property rights and effectively remove all limitations on the size of economic land concessions, a coalition of civil society groups said in a statement released.

The draft of The Law on the Management and Use of Agricultural Land, which was formulated with the help of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization, also contains criminal sanctions that impose jail terms of up to one year.

The FAO has said that controversial agricultural land leases that had no apparent limitations in size had been removed from a new draft formulated in April, but yesterday declined to provide an updated copy of the law, which the government has also so far declined to circulate. …

 David Boyle and May Titthara, P. 1
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