02087nam a0000157ua 124 2519_1131218 2011 Men, PrachvuthyLand Acquistion by Non-Local Actors and Consequences for Local DevelopmentImpacts of Economic Land Concessions on the Livelihoods of Indigenous Communities in Northeast Provinces of CambodiaRoyal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP)Netherlands Academy of Land Governance for Equitable and Sustainable DevelopmentPhnom PenhUtrechtMar 201140 p"In Cambodia, land issues have been on the increase since the country adopted a free market economy in the early 1990s. Privatisation, large-scale infrastructural development, tourism, foreign investment and agro-industry have led to heightened pressure on the availability of land for poor local people. The result has been an increasing trend of large-scale land acquisitions, inadequate protection of land rights and high incidence of disputes. While many other developing countries are facing similar issues, the situation in Cambodia is particularly problematic. In the 1990s, the country was emerging from several decades of communist rule and armed conflict. Its rapid integration in the global market economy turned land into an increasingly valuable commodity while it lacked the experience and regulatory framework necessary to handle conflicting claims effectively. Moreover, as a relatively underdeveloped and yet resource-rich country in the rapidly growing Asia Pacific region, Cambodia has become a resource frontier, in which extensive tracts of forest and lands used by local communities are being converted to commercial cropping systems."Land GovernanceIndigenous PeoplesLand ConflictLand OwnershipEconomic Land ConcessionsREDD001Social-Development.Indigenous-And-Ethnic-MinoritiesAgriculture-&-Fishing.Agricultural-Production.Economic-Land-ConcessionsCatalogueRecords/Cambodia_landacquisition_impacts_indigenouspeople.pdfDownload English PDF