In rural Cambodia, options to maintain sustainable livelihoods have been limited to subsistence agriculture for reasons that are largely historical. Efforts to modernise the economy during the 1950s and 1960s bore some fruit, but the real impact was restricted to a few urban areas. During the 1980s and 1990s, some activities fanned out into the...

Since the inception of the Research Programme at the Cambodian Development Resource Institute (CDRI), considerable effort has been devoted to undertake diagnostic and policy studies on rural livelihoods, land, poverty, and natural resources. In 2001, CDRI launched a field survey of nine Cambodian villages to study the current state of rural liv...

This research follows from concerns raised by the large-scale land transfers, and the consequent landlessness that emerged, in the later part of the 1990s in Cambodia. It aims to reclassify land transaction data as available with the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction (MLMUPC) to analyse possible trends and patterns in...

The Cambodia Development Resource Institute (CDRI) has been undertaking a systematic study of the different facets of rural livelihoods, land and environment in Cambodia, since the late 1990s. The first studies were conducted between 1997 and 1998, with further studies being undertaken between 2000 and 2001. This research paper, which forms pa...