January 8, 2013
Omliang, Kampong Speu, Cambodia
Trucks offload the sugar cane onto a belt that takes the cane into a crusher.
January 16, 2013
Srei Ambel, Koh Kong, Cambodia
Sugar cane collectors come back home after a day of work.
January 16, 2013
Srei Ambel, Koh Kong, Cambodia
B. S. (11) takes a break from working on the sugar cane plantation. Seth works normally 2 days a week trying to not miss too many days of school.
January 16, 2013
Srei Ambel, Koh Kong, Cambodia
B. S. (11) carries a bunch of sugar cane. To help his family (evicted from their land in 2006 to make way for the sugar plantation), S. works normally 2 days a week trying to not loose too many days of school.
January 16, 2013
Srei Ambel, Koh Kong, Cambodia
N. T. even if he's just 9 years old, helps his parents count and make bunches of sugar canes. He's from Bang Village, about 2 hours drive away from the plantations, where he lives with his other 2 brothers. His family decided to start working in the plantations as the area is suffering a very strong drought and they are not able to cultivate their lands.
January 16, 2013
Srei Ambel, Koh Kong, Cambodia
In order to facilitate the cutting, the sugar cane workers burn part of the fields.
January 16, 2013
Srei Ambel, Koh Kong, Cambodia
Sugar cane collectors wait to be payed after a hard days work. They earn around 2.5 USD per day, and their employment normally lasts only three months per year.
January 16, 2013
Srei Ambel, Koh Kong, Cambodia
A woman cuts sugar cane in the sugar plantation of Srei Ambel, Koh Kong, Cambodia.
January 16, 2013
Srei Ambel, Koh Kong - Cambodia
C.S (14yr. old) works a couple days a week in the plantion to help his family. In order to facilitate the cutting, sugar cane fields are burnt before harvesting.
January 15, 2013
Srei Ambel, Koh Kong, Cambodia
K. K. (13) hugs his little sister after a day working in the sugar cane plantations. This picture is part of a project called Blood Sugar, an in-depth piece on the boom of the sugar industry in Cambodia, and the effects this rapid development is having on small-scale farmers and rural communities.
January 9, 2013
Omliang, Kampong Speu, Cambodia
Machinery is used to load the trucks with sugar cane.
January 8, 2013
Omliang, Kampong Speu
Manual labourers camp at the Phnom Penh Sugar plantation.
January 8, 2013
Omliang, Kampong Speu, Cambodia
Laborers bathe near the manual laborers camp, Phnom Penh sugar plantation.
January 8, 2013
Omliang, Kampong Speu, Cambodia
Trucks wait to enter the factory to unload the sugar cane.
January 8, 2013
Omliang, Kampong Speu, Cambodia
The little primary school of Omlaing. According to the teachers, there's a very high rate of children who leave the school (mainly of students above 15/16 years old) to work in the plantations of sugar cane, as many families have lost their lands and they need more income.
January 8, 2013
Omliang, Kampong Speu, Cambodia
A family prepares breakfast before they start working in the sugar cane plantations.
January 8, 2013
Omliang, Kampong Speu, Cambodia
T. N. (61) walks home after a day working in the plantations. She was evicted from her 7 hectares of land in 2011, and was forced to accepted a compensation of 300USD (the estimate value of 1 hectare is around 5.000 USD). Now she and her family, don't own any land and they're not self-sufficient anymore (2.5 of the 7 hectares were rice fields) and they had to ask the bank for loans.