Land rights in focus: 2025 Cambodia Land and Resource Conflict Monitoring Report

The 2025 Land and Resource Conflict Monitoring (LRCM) Report shows that Cambodia’s land sector remains highly contested due to historical upheaval, weak governance, and rapid economic and urban development pressures disproportionately affecting smallholder farmers and indigenous communities. In 2025, 34 ongoing land conflict cases impacted 8,559 households across 10,852 hectares, highlighting long-standing disputes driven by private actors, State entities, and systemic institutional weaknesses. Urgent improvements in transparency,

FPIC compliance, dispute resolution, and coordinated land governance are needed to secure land rights and prevent human rights abuses.

 

Founded in 1979, ANGOC is a regional association of national and regional networks of civil society organizations (CSOs) in Asia, actively engaged in food security, agrarian reform, sustainable agriculture, participatory governance, and rural development.