Rural Education and Training

Learning covers rice and seed production, vegetables, livestock, agroecological practice and farm planning. Demonstrations and field visits give participants opportunities to observe, discuss and compare approaches.

• Farming, nutrition and local markets
• Quality rice seed
• Rice communities and climate resilience

CIRD shares food-safety and consumer-rights information through public workshops, video, radio and social media. Consumer dialogue and networking give people ways to exchange experience and participate in collective action.

Facilitator training in May 2024 covered business tracking, understanding records, managing money and planning ahead. Digital farm-record training followed in August 2024, with cooperative business-planning training in October 2025.

Training and coaching support the practical responsibilities of group leaders: managing savings, organising member services, preparing business plans and applying agreed quality checks. CIRD has worked with women’s savings groups, rice cooperatives and associations for pepper, palm sugar, salt and wild honey.

• Women’s savings and recovery
• Women and wetland livelihoods
• Product origin, associations and markets

Training helps cooperative teams work with the Sustainable Rice Platform standard and internal management systems: the arrangements used to organise checks, records and responsibilities.

Browse practical guides, recording books, production manuals and organisational tools in English and Khmer. Each resource identifies its audience, language and source.