Management of economic land concessions

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2015-07-01

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The Cambodian government redistributed 1.2 million hectares, some revoked from economic land concessions (ELC), to more than 710,000 smallholders as private ownerships (2013-2014). The paper outlines key steps for granting new land concessions and improving the efficiency of existing ELCs (or similar large-scale state land licences). Cambodia’s excessive large-scale state land concessions have adversely affected the livelihoods and land tenure rights of local people, threatening the country’s rich biodiversity and restricting access to land especially for new farmer households.

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BIODIVERSITY, LAND POLICY, LAND ADMINISTRATION, PLANTATIONS, LAND TENURE, SMALLHOLDERS, OWNERSHIP, CAMBODIA, FAR EAST ASIA

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