Project and assignment
Producer organisations and Cambodian rice commercialisation
CIRD helped producer organisations and farmer water-user communities develop their roles in paddy marketing. The assignment brought contract-farming studies, pilot activities, advisory skills and stakeholder dialogue together with the needs of rice mills and exporters.
- Period
- September 2013 – March 2017
- Assignment
- Past assignment
- Locations
- Battambang, Preah Vihear, Takeo, Svay Rieng, Prey Veng
CIRD’s contribution
Local team leadership and capacity-building support for the producer-organisation component of Support to the Commercialization of Cambodian Rice.
Practical work
- Studied contract farming and farmer-organisation roles in paddy marketing.
- Provided technical advice and coordinated pilot activities with the public project team.
- Facilitated stakeholder consultation and discussion of credit mechanisms for producer marketing.
- Monitored pilot results with public counterparts and developed advisory guidelines and training.
- Contributed field-based policy recommendations on producer marketing and contract-farming arrangements.
Activities and outputs
- Contract-farming study, pilot coordination, economic monitoring and advisory guidelines.
- Stakeholder consultation and recommendations on producer-organisation roles in rice markets.
Partners and their roles
French Development Agency
Funding partner
Supreme National Economic Council
Public commissioning and coordination institution
Agronomes et Vétérinaires Sans Frontières
Associated technical partner
Eclosio, formerly ADG
Development and implementation partner
Connected programmes
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