[{"bbox": [171, 152, 1134, 208], "category": "Text", "text": "this potential, and the existing industry associations and federations are newly established with inadequate capacity to support their members (producers, processors/exporters)."}, {"bbox": [97, 220, 1072, 273], "category": "Text", "text": "Identification of main stakeholders and corresponding institutional and/or organisational issues (mandates, potential roles, and capacities) to be covered by the action:"}, {"bbox": [97, 273, 1134, 459], "category": "Text", "text": "**Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (MAFF)** through its various departments (Planning and Statistic (DPS), General directorate of Agriculture (GDA), Extension (DEAFF), Industrial crops (DAI), Legislation (DAL), affiliated bodies (universities and research institutes), and provincial department of agriculture (PDAFF) deconcentrated offices at subnational level is the main public agency responsible for supporting sustainable and safe agriculture production, delivering extension services to producers, supporting agricultural cooperatives, ensuring quality of agricultural inputs, providing inspection and certification services as well as promoting post-harvest food safety standards."}, {"bbox": [97, 470, 1134, 576], "category": "Text", "text": "**Ministry of Industry, Science, Technology and Innovation (MISTI)** is an identified stakeholder of CAPSAFE through its Department of SME promotion. The Institute of Standards of Cambodia (ISC) is the national standards body responsible for the national framework of standards implementation at the SMEs processing level such as GMP, HACCP, ISO/IEC:22000."}, {"bbox": [97, 588, 1134, 723], "category": "Text", "text": "**Industry associations²⁶**: The mandate of Industry associations and federations is to represent the industry including producers, public, private stakeholders. As newly established entities, these industry association have limited resources and capacity and require systematic and long-term support to become full-fledged player in the value chain both at national level to promote the interests of their respective industry at policy level and at the international level to promote Cambodian agricultural products."}, {"bbox": [97, 734, 1134, 1027], "category": "Text", "text": "**Smallholder farmers, as represented in Agriculture Cooperatives: Smallholder farmers** are the backbone of Cambodia agricultural sector, 68% is smallholder farmer²⁷. In general, they own the land they labour and employ a small number of seasonal workers only. Due to their low capital base, they are risk-averse and prefer to use conventional practices of agriculture. Farmers usually group into Agriculture Cooperatives (ACs). Each AC consists of between 100 to 200 farmers and 63% of AC members are women. As per the Law on AC, their mandate is to improve technical agricultural production capacity, agroindustry, agri-business or services aimed at enhancing socio-economic and cultural status of their members. Most of the 1251 existing ACs focus on providing basic input supply service or social services such as saving and credit schemes for the members' benefit. Very few AC are operated as a business: They are generally managed by elder representatives with limited administrative capacity and low business and financial literacy. Bookkeeping systems are not harmonized and there is no unified accounting system for ACs. ACs face difficulties accessing financial services and are not audited."}, {"bbox": [97, 1038, 1134, 1146], "category": "Text", "text": "**Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises: MSMEs** are the driving force to lead the transition from subsistence agriculture to the envisioned export oriented commercial agriculture. MSMEs still face constraints in complying with import countries requirements for sustainability, transparency and sustainability of agricultural products supply chains."}, {"bbox": [97, 1157, 1134, 1264], "category": "Text", "text": "**Private sector service providers:** including Khmer Enterprise (KE), Eurocham, SME and Agriculture Rural Development Bank (ARDB) Banks, ICT and Solar service providers, are expected to be involved in the implementation of the action, given their role in providing necessary services (financial, inputs, know how, equipment) to farmers, ACs, MSMEs for cashew nuts and pepper value chains development."}, {"bbox": [86, 1328, 603, 1360], "category": "Section-header", "text": "# 3 DESCRIPTION OF THE ACTION"}, {"bbox": [86, 1393, 508, 1425], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 3.1 Objectives and Expected Outputs"}, {"bbox": [97, 1440, 1134, 1494], "category": "Text", "text": "The **Overall Objective (Impact)** of this action is to contribute to green growth and decent jobs by promoting climate-resilient, and sustainable agriculture value chain development in Cambodia."}, {"bbox": [86, 1603, 1143, 1627], "category": "Footnote", "text": "²⁶ Cashew nut Federation, the Cashew Nut association, Cambodia Pepper and Spices Federation (CPSF) and the Kampot Pepper Producers Association (KPPA)"}, {"bbox": [86, 1625, 340, 1645], "category": "Footnote", "text": "²⁷ Cambodia Agriculture Survey 2020"}, {"bbox": [1038, 1682, 1143, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 9 of 21"}]