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

Related resources

Presentation 2017 English

Helping smallholder producers reach better markets

CIRD’s Intervention for a Better Access to Market by Smallholder Producer

Prak Sereyvath

CIRD / ALiSEA

Explains CIRD’s work on producer organisations, quality standards, certification, branding and market connections across rice, pepper, palm sugar, vegetables and other rural products. Prepared for the third Mekong Extension Learning Alliance meeting.

Read at the source Product origin and producer associations Farming, nutrition and local markets Pepper farms and markets

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Prak Sereyvath. (2017). CIRD’s Intervention for a Better Access to Market by Smallholder Producer. CIRD / ALiSEA.

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).

Connected programmes

Work with CIRD

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

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