Advancing the Integrated Approach for Inclusive Rural Community Development
Study Report No. 21 (2025)
The primary purpose of the case studies is to assess how specific rural villages have transformed themselves. Each case study seeks to reveal: i) How each village currently looks; ii) How each village has transformed itself and the driving forces behind the transformation; and iii) How each village can strengthen its future development...
Rethinking Rural Development Models in Cambodia in Light of Regional Experiences and Village Development in Rural Cambodia
Study Report No. 20 (2024)
With significant investments over the past three decades, rural Cambodia has benefited from an expanded infrastructure network, including roads, bridges, irrigation, the electricity grid, and telecommunications. Across rural villages, sizeable houses have been built but without significant...
Assessing Policy Options for Agricultural Value Chain Financing
Study Report No. 19 (2024)
Under Cambodia's current legal framework, there are no specific provisions addressing unsecured loans, nor are there any legal texts prohibiting non-collateral lending practices. While there are no explicit measures to encourage non-collateral lending, the Government of the Kingdom of ...
Re-examining Labour Markets in Rural Cambodia with Emphasis on the Economic Poles of SAAMBAT Project
Study Report No. 18 (2023)
This study examines the rural labour market focusing on agricultural sector growth and modernization. It intends to assess the Cambodia’s rural labour demand and supply. The study conducts two parallel surveys: a household survey and another separate survey for rural enterprises...
Assessment of the Agricultural Cooperatives for Developing Policy on Public, Private and Producer Partnership (PPPP) in Cambodia
Study Report No.17 (2023)
The development of agricultural cooperatives (ACs) started in the 1990s. It was then supported by the promulgation of the Law on Agricultural Cooperatives in 2013, and the number of ACs increased the most during the last decade. As of 2022, the total ...
Study of Emerging Area and Potential Crops for Diversification in Cambodia
Study Report No.16 (2022)
Agricultural diversification has never been more important than it is now. While COVID-19 has been severely affecting other sectors, agriculture keeps growing. The sector grew by 0.5 percent in 2020 ...
Agricultural Investment at the Crossroads in Cambodia: Towards inclusion of smallholder farmers?
Study Report No.15 (2022)
The agricultural investments landscape of Cambodia is changing rapidly. The large-scale development model, driven by agro-industrial concessions, is out of steam, and other forms of investments linking farmers with ...
An Overview of Business Models for Agricultural Investments and A Mapping of Policy and Regulatory Framework and Institutional Arrangement for Agricultural Development in Cambodia
Study Report No.14 (2021)
Until 2012, agricultural investments in Cambodia have mainly occurred through large-scale land acquisition (LSLA) and agricultural operations. The results of LSLA have been ...
The COVID-19 Pandemic and Workers in Cambodia
Study Report No.13 (2021)
The survey was conducted in August 2020 through phone interviews with 1,525 of the approximately 130,000 workers in the garment, footwear, travel goods, hotel/guesthouse, and other tourism service industries ...
COVID-19 and the Tourism Sector in Cambodia
Study Report No.12 (2021)
Tourism was one of the key drivers of the Cambodian economy before the COVID-19 pandemic. However, since early 2020 when the pandemic hit the country, the absence of foreign visitors and restricted domestic travel caused ...
Digital Challenges and Opportunities for Agricultural
Study Report No.11 (2021)
Digital technology plays an important role in enabling economic growth, and has the potential to have a significant impact on job creation and labor market structure in Cambodia. This results in a pressing need for ...
Land conflicts between Economic Land Concessions
Study Report No.10 (2020)
In Cambodia, the mechanisms of Economic Land Concessions (ELC) have allowed the government to lease State land to domestic and foreign companies for agro-industrial development. ELCs often overlap with land ...
Feasibility Study on Agricultural Business Models
Study Report No.09 (2019)
This study assesses current agricultural business models under contract-farming schemes for three industrial crops, namely sugarcane, rubber, and cassava, to identify opportunities or challenges as well as successes or failures in contract ...