Report on Worldwide Land Grabbing Zeroes In on Cambodia

7 December 2012
The Cambodia Daily
Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Government / International relations / Land / Public land lease
Africa / bio-fuel / Cambodian Sugar Plantaions / civil society / Economic Land Concessions (ELCs) / Europe duty-free / European Union aid / Export / Farmland / Food prices / Human Rights / human rights violations / industrial scale operations / Investment / Land-grabbing / local NGOs / Mozambique / NGO Forum Syd / Social and Environment Impacts / Stockholm / Swedish NGOs / The Race for Land / U.N. / U.N.'s human rights envoy to Cambodia / World Bank

A new report on land grabbing around the world highlights Cambodia as a prime example of the ill effect of the growing global appetite for farmland by industrial scale operations. Released Wednesday in Stockholm by three Swedish NGOs, The Race for Land offers Cambodia as one of two case studies - the other is Mozambique - of how rising food prices and demand for bio-fuel is driving the trend. ...

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