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Do Carbon Credits Really Help Forest Communities?

Indigenous communities play a critical role in the 'REDD+' strategy that sells emission reductions for credits to raise money for forest protection.

The Mekong is slowly dying – ICSF

Indigenous land rights are key to conservation in Cambodia (commentary)

While Indigenous peoples comprise just 6% of the global population, they manage or have tenure rights over at least 38 million km2 in some 87 countries. In many places Indigenous peoples are effective custodians of biodiversity, lands, and seas while sustaining distinct cultural, social and economic values of their communities. Upholding the rights of these communities […]

Calls grow to repurpose land squandered in Cambodia's concession policy

PHNOM PENH “Make the bosses rich in Cambodia,” then-prime minister Hun Sen said at the 2012 inauguration of a sugar refinery in Kampong Speu province. “If a country has no millionaires, where can the poor get their money from?” This underscored the ideology at the heart of the policy of economic land concessions, or […]

farmlandgrab.org | Years-long mediation leaves Bunong farmers indebted to multinational rubber firm