Cambodia: Cheated out of Their Own Land: Land Grabbing in Cambodia

Apr 19, 2016 | Welthungerhilfe
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In Cambodia, approximately 70 per cent of the population live from traditional agriculture, that is, predominantly from their harvest. For some, there is a little left over that they can sell at the local market. But cultivable land is scarce. The award of land rights to foreign investors is to blame - and the civil war.