Tag: Indigenous issues

Can a carbon offset project really secure Indigenous rights in authoritarian Cambodia?

  • The Cambodian Ministry of Environment has blocked Indigenous communities from receiving ownership over thousands of hectares of customary farmlands and culturally significant forests in the Keo Seima REDD+ project zone.
  • The Wildlife Conservation Society, which works with the ministry to administer the project, did not disclose these land disputes caused by the project’s activities to standard setter Verra, and its auditors failed to identify these issues.
  • Indigenous peoples in the REDD+ project face arrests, imprisonment, crop destruction and property confiscation as a result of unclear boundaries and insufficient land allocated to their communities.
  • This reporting project received support from the Pulitzer Center’s Rainforest Journalism Fund.

Read the full article at: https://news.mongabay.com/2024/07/can-a-carbon-offset-project-really-secure-indigenous-rights-in-authoritarian-cambodia/

This is the first article in our two-part series on Indigenous land rights and the Keo Seima REDD+ project. This series was co-written by a Cambodian journalist whose name is being withheld due to security concerns. Read part two here.

 

Cambodia’s Indigenous communities renounce communal land titles for microloans

TA HEUY, Cambodia — Cambodian farmers Nuoy and Nangkek were both in their late 20s when they took out their first microloan in 2018 for around $600 to help grow their crops. Today, the couple owe more than $10,000 to two financial institutions charging 18% annual interest.

Read the full article at: Cambodia’s Indigenous communities renounce communal land titles for microloans (mongabay.com)

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