Abstract
After privatization of the land ownership in 1989, the landholding in Cambodia has changed by the cleaning / exchange / buying and selling. In this survey, having considered of the progress on the historic landholding based on the precedent studies. And clarified the present conditions of the landholding and the change after land privatization in 1989 based on-the-spot survey was taken place in 2008 and 2009 at Kampot prefecture Samroanleux ward. In addition, after looking through the precedent studies, I examined the reason behind the existence of the landless families. As a result, 87 households (14.3%) among the 608 households investigated have not own any farmland. The reasons behind it are medical treatments, daily necessities, paying debts and so on. However, as I examine the requital of debts here among the 209 households, 185 households debts to the bank is at an interest rate of 3% to 5% monthly. Those households in debts with their relatives or acquaintances are 9.6% which consist of 20 households. Lastly, high interests paid to informal money lender is at the least of 1% which only consist of 2 households. The result was different from the precedent studies which insisted that the informal money lending is the cause behind loosing the landownership. In my opinion, even using the formal finance route, after all economic conditions plus the hierarchy differentiation played an important part to it.
