On 30 August 2017, 40 people brought a petition to the Chinese Embassy in Phnom Penh calling for the withdrawal of a group of Chinese agribusiness companies from Preah Vihear province in northern Cambodia. The companies, five subsidiaries of the Chinese company Hengfu, are accused of grabbing land in 2011 from tens of thousands of families and their communities, destroying local ecosystems and putting farmers’ livelihoods in jeopardy. Representing affected communities in Tbeng Meanchey, Chhep and Chey Sen districts, the petitioners travelled to the Cambodian capital by their own means. They were joined in solidarity by eight people whose communities have similarly been affected by Cambodia’s Economic Land Concessions (ELCs), large tracts of land that have been allocated by the government to domestic and foreign investors since 1995.