Smallholder farmers to face land shortage, study finds
They will need land!, a report commissioned by the NGO Mekong Region Land Governance, predicts that by 2030, the amount of land required to sustain Cambodia’s smallholder farmer population will have increased by anywhere from 10 to 64 per cent of 2015 levels, or 320,600 to 1,962,400 hectares. The lead author of the report, Jean-Christophe Diepart, on August 14 stressed smallholders’ importance in Cambodia. Yang Saing Koma, founder of the Cambodian Centre for Study and Development in Agriculture, said smallholders have and will continue to play an important role, but noted that the government had enacted few policies to support them.
