Countries who are unable to produce enough food for themselves are scouring the world for cheap farmland to grow food and export it home, reports Nick Paton Walsh. Never mind the food miles: when prices are soaring around the world some countries have found a way of keeping their own consumers happy – farming out [...]
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Oknha Mong Reththy: introducing Cambodian pork meat in Cambodia
January 27th, 2009 
Cambodian News The small scale of pig farms, high pig-food prices, the often steep fees charged by slaughterhouses, smuggling of pigs from Vietnam undermining competition or the prices of pork meat, volatile and unpredictable as a consequence. Reasons for the weakness in the Cambodian pig industry are aplenty, as the country currently has to import the majority [...]
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Tags: Agriculture, Cambodia, Cambodian farmer, Mong Reththy, Phnom Penh, Pige raising, Small business, SMEs 
No Comments »Cambodian premier to visit Middle East soon
January 12th, 2009 Cambodian News PHNOM PENH, Jan. 4 (Xinhua) – Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen will start his maiden visit to the Middle East region soon, Information Minister and government spokesman Khieu Kanharith said here on Sunday. The premier will visit Qatar, Kuwait and other countries in the region after Jan. 10 in order to strengthen the kingdom’s ties [...]
Global trends driving ‘land grab’ in poor nations: activists
January 5th, 2009 Cambodian News KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) — Resource-hungry nations are snapping up huge tracts of agricultural land in poor Asian nations, in what activists say is a “land grab” that will worsen poverty and malnutrition. Global trends including high prices for oil and commodities, the biofuels boom, and now the sweeping downturn, are spurring import-reliant countries to take [...]