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LAND USE AND LAND COVER CHANGES, A CASE STUDY FROM NORTHWESTERN UPLANDS OF CAMBODIA

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Study case description
Introduction
PART I : Changes of land use and land cover (LULC)
PART II : Process of land use and land cover changes
- Introduction
- Civil war and peace establishment (1976-2002)
- In-migration for land access (2002-2010)
  - 2002-2006 : Peak migration for land
  - 2006-2010: Peak clearance for maize boom
- Turmoil of smallholder farming and future perspectives (2010-Future)
- Conclusion
PART III : Proximate causes, underlying factors, and their linkages
Conclusion of the case study

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2002-2006 : Peak migration for land

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	After the war, there were so many in-migrants from many provinces from 1998-2000 to access the land in disorganized way Right answer ! Read more about the this massive in-migration on the feedback on the below page
	The increase of population in the region was natural without any in-migrants
	There were in-migrants only from Battambang province.
	There was a well organized in-migration with a quota from each province in Cambodia.

Following in-migration of closed military families, there was massive in-migration of the poorest farmers who could no longer sustain their living with rice based farming systems. There started selling and buying lands mostly still forested at as cheap as 100$/ha among wealthy and high ranking people that often occurred in the frontiers.

The poor sold out the appropriated lands and subsequently re-appropriate new forest lands which were relatively less fertile, farther from roads and more dangerous of landmines. In fact, it was a push-pull strategies keeping people in permanent move without clear development plan, “pushed” by the fast valuation of the reclaimed lands and “pulled” by the attraction of new and intact forested spaces.

Thanks to rapid roads infrastructure development in the rural areas and open access to Thai market, the clearance was faster and larger for the cultivation of major crops such as paddy, peanut, and soybean. The hybrid maize was introduced along the border areas with Thailand.

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