Cambodia

PHNOM PENH - Agriculture ministers in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) endorsed a five-year strategy and action plan to build a regional food safety system on Friday during a meeting in northwest Cambodia's Siem Reap province. The system will be based on mutually recognized, science-based standards, product tracing and information sharing, especially on hazard lists for key commodities, said… Read more

Fort Kheun is one of a number of people who refused to leave his village and home as the new Lower Sesan dam was being constructed. But as he spoke to Khmer Times on Friday, he was preparing to take his family and property to a safer place as water rose around his village due to tests being run by the company behind the dam. His home is in Sre Ko village, which is along the southern banks of… Read more

Cambodia’s most important ecosystem is in crisis, experts say. Millions rely on the Tonle Sap lake for food and irrigation, and its destruction would have repercussions across the whole Kingdom. What can be done? The Tonle Sap is “doomed”. The ecosystem of the gigantic lake – whose annual flood cycle has been the pulse of Cambodia for millennia, and on which millions… Read more

Read the article here: https://www.thestar.com.my/news/regional/2017/08/02/cambodia-facing-economic-peril-countrys-most-important-ecosystem-is-at-the-point-of-no-return/ Read more

The importance of legal certainty concerning land rights cannot be overstated in the context of fighting poverty. This is evident in Cambodia, for example. In the world’s poorest countries, as well as in many low-income countries, agriculture is very important – and so is access to land. The share of agriculture in countries’ gross domestic product (GDP) may tend to… Read more

Phnom Penh, Cambodia – Sustainable rice straw management practices in Cambodia can enhance using the byproduct to significantly increase farmers’ income. On 5-6 July, this was examined during a roundtable meeting and workshop on building potential business models for the rice straw supply chain in the country. The event was held at the Royal University of Agriculture (RUA) under the… Read more

SIEM REAP, Cambodia (9–10 June 2017) - Two more countries have joined a regional seed policy agreement that speeds up the distribution of modern rice varieties across nations in South and Southeast Asia. This agreement was formalized during a meeting of agriculture ministers and representatives of nine countries, titled “Seeds without Borders: Regional cooperation for… Read more

SIEM REAP, Cambodia – A multi-country seed policy agreement that drastically speeds up the distribution of modern rice varieties across countries in South and Southeast Asia is being sought in a meeting of agriculture ministers and representatives of nine countries this weekend (9-10 June 2017) at Siem Reap. Organized by the International Rice Research Institute, the event brings together… Read more