Partnership for Agroecology Transition, Networking, and Efficient Resilience (PArTNER)
The PArTNER project aims to support family farming in Cambodia to make it more resilient.
Background
Despite socio-economic development over the past decade, poverty and inequality remain major challenges in Cambodia: 80% of the population lives in rural areas and more than 55% work in agriculture. Cambodian agriculture is characterized by small-scale family farming (less than 0.5 hectares per family). Farming families live mainly from a single crop of rain-fed rice. Given the country’s geography and the population’s dependence on subsistence agriculture and natural resources for their income, Cambodians are highly vulnerable to climate change.
Financial partner

Location
Provinces of Takeo, Battambang, and Kampong Thom

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)


Our action
PArTNER aims to support family farming to make it more resilient. The objective is:
- Increase agricultural productivity through agroecological practices: by strengthening farmers' capacities and technical and managerial innovations, and by paying greater attention to women in order to advance their economic autonomy, while promoting poverty reduction.
- To increase incomes by improving the value chains of agroecological products, promoting access to remunerative markets, and supporting farming families in their processing and marketing activities.
- Support farmers' representatives in their advocacy efforts with the private sector and government, promote women's participation in decision-making spaces, and foster coherent policies that favor smallholder farmers.
- To raise consumer awareness about healthy and safe food consumption, contributing to improved sustainable consumption. These social actions will also promote the role of women in a healthy nutrition strategy.
- To improve knowledge management in order to influence policy and decision-making in the field of food and in favor of agroecological transition.
The program targets 26,225 smallholder farmers (including 15,395 women) and their family members, as well as members of 23 agricultural cooperatives in the provinces targeted by the project. The final beneficiaries are the 322,000 families living around the target groups, as well as the 2 million consumers in urban areas served by the target groups.
Operational partners
- Louvain Cooperation
- Battambang Union of Agricultural Cooperatives (BUAC)
- Tramkak Union of Agricultural Cooperatives (TrUAC)
- Balang Sethapi Agricultural Cooperative (BSAC)
- Prasat Samaki Agricultural Cooperative (PSAC)
- Samaki Prasat Tangkrasang Agricultural Cooperative (SPTAC)
- Development and Partnership in Action (formerly CIDSE Cambodia)
- National University of Battambang
- Ecosystem Services and Land Use Research Center (EcoLand)
- Faculty of Agricultural Science of the Royal University of Agriculture (FoAS-RUA)
- Saint Paul Institute
- Cambodian Institute for Research and Rural Development (CIRD)
- Support Her Enterprise (SHE)
- WWF-Belgium
- Anti-Personnel Landmine Detection Product Development (APOPO)
Duration
5 years: January 2022–December 2026
Contact persons: Veata Mey



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