Poverty Orientation
Salient Features of Poverty in Agricultural Sector of Cambodia
- Agriculture in Cambodia is predominantly lowland rain-fed rice farming with needs for productivity increase
- Staple diet of Cambodia is rice and fish
- 20% of irrigation schemes in full operation
- Limited all-weather roads
- Lack of clean water, especially during dry season
- Low percentage of households with latrines
- Unemployed rural workforce
- Micro credit through informal lenders with high interest rates
- Landmines
- Insecure land tenure
- Weak institutions
Project Target Groups and Poverty
- 55.000 Agricultural Households (280.000 people)
- 50% of these have an annual food deficit of 4 months
- 33% of these have insufficient income to purchase minimum food
- Women between 18 and 64 years of age
- Youths between 15 and 17 years of age
- Victims of Landmines
Project Interventions Targeting Poverty
- Intensification and diversification of cropping
- Increased home food security
- Specifically trained agricultural extension workers
- Nutrition for livestock productivity
- Small scale aquaculture
- Rehabilitation of small-scale irrigation systems
- Vocational training
- Silk production
- Vegetable marketing
- Fish processing
- Market information
- Literacy programmes
- Gender awareness programmes
- Health programmes
- Sanitation
- Institutional strengthening
- Rehabilitation of sub-tertiary rural roads
- Rural water supply, wells, ponds, etc
- Support provision of financial services
- De-mining
- Land-titling
- Awareness creation “safeguarding land”
