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Library Managing public lands for equitable and sustainable development in Cambodia

Managing public lands for equitable and sustainable development in Cambodia

Managing public lands for equitable and sustainable development in Cambodia

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Date of publication
April 2015
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ISBN / Resource ID
IDRC:10625/54714

Public lands accounted for 80% of the country area until a decade ago. As Cambodia emerged from three decades of civil war and internal strife, the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) has granted more than 10% of the country area or 50% of the cultivatable land as large scale “Economic Land Concessions” (ELCs) to private companies, mostly foreign owned, in a mostly rigged process. Land disputes have become a permanent fixture in the press and a hot issue on human rights reports. There is a need for detailed public review of ELCs and to re-approach land management processes both before and after the concessions.

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