[{"bbox": [97, 153, 1133, 233], "category": "Text", "text": "The **Specific objective (Outcome)** of the action is to improve the sustainability, competitiveness and inclusiveness of selected agriculture value chains with higher local value added for export to regional (ASEAN) and premium markets including EU"}, {"bbox": [97, 244, 1024, 272], "category": "Text", "text": "The **Outputs** to be delivered by this action contributing to the corresponding Specific Objectives are:"}, {"bbox": [137, 284, 1133, 311], "category": "List-item", "text": "1. **Strengthened national systems on agri-food safety and climate-resilient agriculture, including decent work**"}, {"bbox": [137, 323, 1133, 377], "category": "List-item", "text": "2. **Increased productivity of cashew nuts and pepper with climate-resilient and sustainable intensification practices including de-forestation free production**"}, {"bbox": [137, 389, 1133, 442], "category": "List-item", "text": "3. **Increased local value addition of cashew nut and pepper for export to ASEAN and premium markets including EU**"}, {"bbox": [86, 470, 374, 497], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 3.2 Indicative Activities"}, {"bbox": [97, 516, 1133, 569], "category": "Text", "text": "Activities relating to **Output 1**: Strengthened national systems on agri-food safety and climate-resilient agriculture, including decent work"}, {"bbox": [144, 581, 1133, 687], "category": "Text", "text": "1.1. **Agri-food safety regulatory framework**: Support MAFF to develop regulations on SPS Law implementation and a national traceability system for certification (GDA), including relevant capacity building. Support MISTI Institute of Standards (ISC) and Accreditation department to align Cambodian standards with EU and ASEAN ones, and improve certification and accreditation services on food safety."}, {"bbox": [144, 699, 1133, 911], "category": "Text", "text": "1.2. **Climate-Resilient Agriculture policy, planning and R&D**: TA to empower MAFF to manage climate risks: assess capacity gaps, develop a new Adaptation and Mitigation Response Strategy and Action Plan, draft a compendium of Climate-Resilient Agriculture (CRA) and integrate in the public extension services; and set-up a dedicated Climate Change Unit. Grant innovation funds to universities for R&D on agro-ecological, agro-engineering and agro-processing research. Grants to universities may cover costs of practical experiments and internships with the private sector for students to get their degree, and action research for innovation by professors and graduate students. This will be done in synergy with other EU-funded interventions such as CAPFISH, EU Technical education programme, E-READI, EU-Share and Erasmus+."}, {"bbox": [144, 912, 1133, 1018], "category": "Text", "text": "1.3. **Decent work in Agriculture**: TA to support MAFF in piloting gender-sensitive decent work programme for agricultural workers in AC and MSMEs. The recommendations on decent work conditions will be applied in activities 2.1, 2.2 and 3.2. The results of the piloting -which will involve ample consultation with workers and civil society- will inform a national policy on decent work in the sector."}, {"bbox": [97, 1030, 1133, 1084], "category": "Text", "text": "Activities relating to **Output 2** (Increased productivity of cashew nuts and pepper with climate-resilient and sustainable intensification practices including de-forestation free production)"}, {"bbox": [144, 1096, 1133, 1309], "category": "Text", "text": "2.1. **Smallholder farmers productivity**: Through public and private extension services, train at least 6,000 smallholder farmers (at least 40% women) on e.g.: agro-ecological practices, post-harvest techniques (including primary processing and food safety), basic digital literacy and book-keeping, contract-farming. Facilitate connections between smallholder farmers with quality services and input suppliers, and relevant social enterprises for climate-resilient and profitable agriculture (IT systems for traceability and cost-saving, water-saving and renewable energy technologies for production and primary processing). Set-up model demonstration farms on the technologies supported above. In linkage with activity 1.3, the support will allow SHFs to pilot decent work standards in production."}, {"bbox": [144, 1320, 1133, 1559], "category": "Text", "text": "2.2. **Self-sustained Agriculture Cooperatives (AC)/social enterprises**: Empower at least 30 AC, and where relevant social enterprises, through training and advisory services on digital literacy, financial, audit and administrative management to become professional AC. This will allow AC (and their members) to develop bankable business plans and to obtain funding (including via ASPIRE-AT) to invest in sustainable value chains including collection of raw cashew nuts and pepper from their members. In addition, ACs will be supported to negotiate more and better contract farming deals with buyers (MSMEs). This will increase the profit of ACs and their members (and therefore their livelihoods), and make the associations more sustainable in the long term. In linkage with activity 1.3, the support will allow SHFs to pilot decent work standards in production."}, {"bbox": [97, 1571, 1133, 1625], "category": "Text", "text": "Activities relating to **Output 3** (Increased local value addition of cashew nut and pepper for export to ASEAN and premium markets, i.e. the EU)"}, {"bbox": [1027, 1682, 1142, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 10 of 21"}]