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Farmers Petition to Change Agricultural Draft Law

10 June 2013
The Cambodia Daily
Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economy and commerce / Land / Law and judiciary
agricultural development area / agricultural development areas / Agriculture & Agri-business / Coalition of Cambodian Farmers Community / Coalition of Cambodian Farmers Community secretariat coordinator Theng Savoeun / Department of Agriculrture / draft law / draft law on management of agricultural land / Farmers / farmers rights / farming / General department of agriculture / general department of agriculture director-general Hean Vanhorn / Hean Vanhorn / Khim Chenda / land / land demarcation / Land grabs / land management / land owners / land ownership / Land rights / LICADHO / management of agricultural land / Ministry of Agriculture / Ministry of Agriculture administration department / Ministry of Agriculture administration department director Khim Chenda / natural resources / petitions / protests / soil quality / Theng Savoeun

About 200 farmers protested in front of the Ministry of Agriculture on Friday and submitted a petition requesting changes to a draft law on the management of agricultural land, which rights groups have said could effectively legalize land grabs from poor farmers. The government says the ...

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New Draft Law Could Legalize Land Grabbing

24 July 2012
The Cambodia Daily
Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Economic land concessions and plantations / Human rights / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Law and judiciary / Laws and regulations / Social development
agricultural development area / criminal liability / Criminal penalties / demarcate land / draft law / Farmers / Farmland / Government / Human Rights group / jail / Land-grabbing / landowners / law / legalize land grabs / LICADHO / Ministry of Agriculture / private landowners / Report / resources / smallholders / threat

A law on the management of farmland currently being drafted by the Ministry of Agriculture is a threat to private landowners as it imposes criminal penalties for farmers who do not abide by new powers the government would have to demarcate land, a human rights ...

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