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The Annual Country Reviews 2017-18
The Annual Country Reviews reflect upon current land issues in the Mekong Region, and has been produced for researchers, practitioners and policy advocates operating in the fiel...
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Community tenure rights and REDD+: a review of the Oddar Meanchey community forestry REDD+ project in Cambodia
Tenure rights over land, forest, and carbon have become a contentious issue within REDD+ implementation across the tropics because local communities could be excluded from REDD+...
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A new urban landscape in East-Southeast Asia, 2000-2010
East–Southeast Asia is currently one of the fastest urbanizing regions in the world, with countries such as China climbing from 20 to 50% urbanized in just a few decades. By 205...
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Sub-Decree No. 48 on Sporadic Land Registration
This Sub Decree determines the procedures related to the sporadic registration of all immovable properties in the Kingdom of Cambodia in areas that were not yet decl...
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Sub-Decree No. 46 on the Procedures to Establish Cadastral Index Map and Land Register
The Sub Decree No.11 ANK.BK of March 22, 2000 on Procedures of Establishing the Cadastral Index Map and Land Register shall be considered void and replaced by this Sub Decree t...
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Sub-Decree No. 47 on the Organization and Functioning of the Cadastral Commission
This sub decree has the objective to define the structure, missions and functions of the Cadastral Commission.
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Land-taking disputes in East Asia: A comparative analysis and implications for Vietnam
This report provides comparative insights into land-taking disputes in three East Asian countries—China, Indonesia, and Cambodia—that are relevant to Vietnamese conditions. It i...
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Compulsory land acquisition and voluntary land conversion in Vietnam
The report provides recommendations on improving land policies to ensure the efficiency of their practical implementation and to target them at both economic development and soc...
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Sub-Decree on the Establishment of A Permanent Working Group to Resolve, Urge and Monitor the Development of Koh Rong Island
The sub-decree was created to set up a permanent working group to address, promote and monitor the development of Koh Rong Island.
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Sub-Decree on the Classification of State Permanent Forest Reserve Land and the Granting of Economic Land Concessions to Private Companies for Agro-Industrial Investments in Battambang Province
This sub-decree categorized land for transfer for development purposes of the 5,200 hectares of the permanent forest reserve in Samlot district, Battambang province.
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Sub-Decree on the Management and Administration of Agricultural Land
The law manages land for agricultural purposes, such as farmlands, plains, peasants, highlands, terraced lands, licensed forest lands, riverside lands, islands, natural grasslan...
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Struggling against excuses: winning back land in Cambodia
This paper focuses on one community in Cambodia that won back land from a large land deal by grabbing onto the rupture in property relations initiated by a one-year land titling...
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From land grab to agrarian transition? Hybrid trajectories of accumulation and environmental change on the Cambodia–Vietnam border
This paper explores the divergent processes of agrarian transition in Cambodia and Vietnam and the ways in which they intersect through flows across the border, arguing that it ...
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Inside and outside the maps: mutual accommodation and forest destruction in Cambodia
The paper focuses on how climate change mitigation policies and economic land and mining concessions in Prey Lang, Cambodia, accommodate and facilitate each other physically, di...
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The Political Economy of Land Governance in Myanmar
This country report commences with a brief identification of the political-economic context that sets the parameters for existing land governance and for reform in Myanmar. It ...
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Mekong Region Customary Tenure Workshop
The Mekong Region Land Governance (MRLG) project and the Forestry Department of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation (MONREC) co-hosted the “Mekong R...
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Sub-decree No. 226 on downsizing of the 3,393 hectare of land in Chi Kreng district, Siem Reap province from land concession of TPP Company and economic land concession of Sophorn Theary Peanich Co. Ltd and reclassifying public state land as private state land for the granting of ownership to the people and keeping a part for public benefits and physical infrastructure
This Sub-decree is about the downsized land in total of 3393 hectares, including (1) 3310.17 hectares from land concession of TPP Company and (2) 82.83 hectares from economic la...
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Sub decree No. 248 on privatization of the 1154 hectare of state land in Taing Samrong commune, Phnom Srouch district, Kampong Speu province for social land concession to allocate to former armed forces and their families
The state land in amount of 1154 hectares from forest cover 2002 in Taing Samrong commune, Phnom Srouch district, Kampong Speu was privatized for social land concession to alloc...
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Sub decree No. 219 on privatization of the 1288 hectare of state land in Techo Aphivat commune, Chhuk district, Kampot province for social land concession to allocate to former armed forces and their families
The 1288 hectare of state land which was cut out from Bokor Monivong National Park from forest cover 2002 in Techo Aphivat commune, Chhuk district, Kampot province was privatize...
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Law on Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction
The objective of the Law on Land Management, Urban Planning and Constructions shall be to promote the organization and embellishment of the urban and the rural areas throughout ...