Land lies at the center of debates about Cambodia’s socio-economic development. Despite urbanization tendencies, agriculture remains the main source of income for over three quarter of the population. For farmers in the fertile lowlands, private land ownership rights have enabled recovery of their livelihoods after decades of violent conflict. Meanwhile, the resource-rich uplands and border areas have been the site of large-scale land acquisitions for cash crop production and extractive industries.
Socio-economic indicators
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Land Area
17,652,000 ha
GDP/Capita
4,354.6 USD
Total population
16,589,000
Urban population
23.4 %
Land-related indicators
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Women owning land
8.6 %
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02 May 2023
The Joint Credit Mechanism REDD+ (JCM REDD+) project will enable Cambodia to maintain the conservation of the Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary. The project is being extended to more than 50 villages around the sanctuary.
At a last week meeting held to review the sanctuary’s progress in 2022 and plan a…
18 April 2023
La Fondation Land Portal a lancé un nouveau portefeuille sur les terres et les investissements qui aborde les concepts clés, les termes, les cadres et politiques internationaux et de nombreux autres aspects essentiels pour comprendre comment les investissements fonciers affectent la société.
Le…
18 April 2023
La Fondation Land Portal a lancé un nouveau portefeuille sur les terres et les investissements qui aborde les concepts clés, les termes, les cadres et politiques internationaux et de nombreux autres aspects essentiels pour comprendre comment les investissements fonciers affectent la société.
Le…
Customary practices undermine principles of joint ownership in male-headed households and gender-biased norms often prevent women from exercising or claiming their rights to the land.
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06 August 2024
Photo: Kandukuru Nagarjun, via Flickr, CC BY 2.0
The recent series of ALIGN articles shed light on how civil society, impacted communities and rights defenders across the world have used strategies such as legal action, publishing of mining contracts and stakeholder dialogues to change approaches…
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Thursday, 15 February 2024
9:00-11:00 CET | 15:00-17:00 Bangkok
Join us in a webinar that will shine light on two groundbreaking reports concerning gender and land governance in the Mekong region. The reports, "Outlook on Gender and Land in the Mekong Region" and "Towards Gender-…