Project and assignment

Connecting smallholder farmers with inclusive markets

Under Accelerating Inclusive Markets for Smallholders, CIRD's market-oriented social-mobilisation team helped farmers understand demand, form producer organisations and build business and recordkeeping skills in four western provinces.

Period: January 2019 – March 2023
Assignment: Past assignment
Locations: Pailin, Battambang, Banteay Meanchey, Siem Reap

CIRD’s contribution

Market-oriented social-mobilisation service provider for the Battambang regional hub.

Practical work

Screened demand and potential producers for vegetables, rice, cassava, chicken and silk.
Organised producer groups around market opportunities.
Trained farmer-nominated business-literacy facilitators.
Supported farmer diary records in the project's management information system.

Working with poultry producers and market institutions

Poultry producers and partner staff discuss production during an outdoor follow-up visit — Poultry-producer follow-up with commerce staff and a Rural Development Bank officer under the inclusive-market project, Pailin, 7 April 2020.

Activities and outputs

35 training-of-trainers courses for 519 farmer-nominated business-literacy facilitators.
Producer organisation and farmer-diary support through the Battambang regional hub.

Partners and their roles

International Fund for Agricultural Development

Funding partner

Ministry of Commerce

Public institution partner

Related resources

Training manual Date not stated Khmer

Financial management and cooperative spirit

Manual on AC financial management & cooperative spirit

International Finance Corporation (IFC)

A Khmer manual covering agricultural cooperative financial management and cooperative principles. Listed among CIRD’s management training tools; contact the team for the full document.

Request this resource Sustainable rice supply chains

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International Finance Corporation (IFC). Manual on AC financial management & cooperative spirit. International Finance Corporation (IFC).

Partner article 2017 English

Entrepreneurship skills for agricultural cooperatives

Enhancing entrepreneurship skills in Cambodian cooperatives

International Labour Organization (ILO)

An ILO article on CIRD’s use of Community-Based Enterprise Development training with pepper cooperatives in Tbaung Khmum. It describes peer learning, business planning and the next steps proposed by the participating cooperatives.

Read at the source Pepper farms and markets Farming, nutrition and local markets

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International Labour Organization (ILO). (2017). Enhancing entrepreneurship skills in Cambodian cooperatives. International Labour Organization (ILO).

Connected programmes

Work with CIRD

Discuss a research question, training need or rural development partnership.

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