Most ELC disputes still unresolved
More than two-thirds of the 158 land disputes triggered by large-scale plantations over the past two decades have yet to be fully resolved, according to a new report by the NGO Forum on Cambodia. Drawing largely on incomplete government records, the umbrella group’s Statistical Analysis of Economic Land Concessions in Cambodia, released on 28 June, states that the government has since 1995 approved 267 concessions covering 1.53 million hectares, well short of the roughly 2 million hectares claimed by officials.
