Overview
CAPRED works to build a more sustainable and productive agricultural sector in Cambodia by empowering small-scale producers, enhancing market competitiveness, and improving the livelihoods of farming households. This contributes to Australia’s broader goals to foster a more resilient, inclusive and sustainable economy in Cambodia, and support more diversified, higher-value trade links within the region and beyond.
The program partners with the Royal Government of Cambodia and local agribusinesses to accelerate agricultural innovation and strengthen climate resilience. We help make climate-smart technologies and inputs more accessible, and support value-addition through production and processing that meets evolving domestic and international market demand.
Our work builds on Australia’s longstanding support to Cambodia’s agricultural sector. This began in the 1960s in partnership with the International Rice Research Institute and continued through the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, the Cambodia Agricultural Value Chain Program, and collaboration to establish the Cambodian Agricultural Research and Development Institute
Focus areas
We focus on four priority value chains, selected for their strong potential to drive inclusive and resilient economic growth.
RICE: As Cambodia’s cornerstone crop, rice has a growing export market and presents the strongest opportunity to deliver outcomes at scale.
CASHEW: Cashew offers a major growth opportunity; Cambodia has a competitive advantage in cashew production and quality and aims to increase domestic processing capacity from 5% to 50% by 2032.
FRUIT: Cambodia’s wide variety of tropical fruits has strong potential for value addition through enhanced in-country processing and improved cold chain facilities.
NICHE CROPS: Stronger value chains in coffee, pepper and other smallholder crops improve resilience and create market opportunities, particularly in remote areas and among marginalised communities.
Our Approach
CAPRED trials and scales new climate-smart technologies – including solar-powered irrigation, straw choppers and all-in-one seeders – along with
sustainable inputs such as biofertiliser. These help agri-businesses and farmers increase yields, improve soil health and enhance resilience to external shocks, while drawing on
Australian innovation and expertise.
We help businesses expand and improve in-country processing to produce a range of high-value, export-ready
agri-food products and to turn
bio-waste into value. We also pilot financing models that reduce risk and enable investment in better practices and equipment.
CAPRED works to ensure that women and indigenous farmers are prioritised in outreach, helping close input and knowledge gaps while supporting climate-smart cultivation.
The program works in partnership with the Royal Government of Cambodia and national industry bodies to help meet
export compliance standards and strengthen Cambodia’s position in global markets.
Agriculture
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