The formalization fix? Land titling and land concessions in Cambodia

Dwyer, Michael B. (2015). The formalization fix? Land titling and land concessions in Cambodia (CDE Policy Brief 4). Bern, Switzerland: Centre for Development and Environment (CDE)

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Issuing land titles to smallholder farmers has long been embraced as a way to promote lending and land markets, but is increasingly being reframed as a way to protect smallholders from irresponsible agricultural investment. This brief examines the case of Cambodia, where over the last decade extensive land titling efforts have occurred alongside a wave of large-scale land concessions. The problem, however, is that titling has failed to live up to the rhetoric of systematic coverage, and has often focused on areas where tenure was already relatively secure. Areas outside the titling zone, in contrast, have become formalized de facto through the process of granting land concessions to investors. This undermines pro-poor development significantly.

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