Catchment Governance and Cooperation Dilemmas: A Case Study from Cambodia
Integrated Catchment Management (ICM) is a recent ideal approach to be introduced into the Cambodian national strategy on water management to ensure better planning and management of water and other related resources in a catchment. A new multi-level catchment body or a committee is soon to be established as a result. Integral to ICM is cooper...
Hydrological Analysis in Support of Irrigation Management: A Case Study of Stung Chrey Bak Catchment, Cambodia
This study applies the Water Evaluation and Planning (WEAP) model to assess irrigation management in the Stung Chrey Bak catchment, Cambodia. It evaluates three scenarios—reference, 5 percent annual increase in irrigation demand, and additional reservoir storage—to explore sustainable water allocation strategies. The catchment supports 10,367 h...
Irregular Migration from Cambodia: Characteristic, Challenges and Regulary Approach
This study investigates the dynamics of irregular migration from Cambodia, focusing on its characteristics, root causes, challenges, and regulatory responses. Drawing on household surveys, focus group discussions, and interviews with stakeholders, the research reveals that irregular migration—defined as unauthorised or undocumented movement for wor...
The Impact of Irrigation on Household Assets
This paper is based on data from 220 selected households surveyed during 2008-2010 and is intended to shed some light on the relationship between irrigation and household assets such as durable assets, livestock, farm equipment, cows and buffalo, and pull/plough animals. Since irrigation is widely seen as being an endogenous variable, the Inst...
An Investigation of Land Cover and Land Use Change in Stung Chrey Bak Catchment, Cambodia
This study investigates land use and land cover (LULC) change in the Stung Chrey Bak catchment, Kompong Chhnang province, Cambodia, over the period 1989–2008. Using a mixed-methods approach that combines satellite remote sensing (Landsat and ASTER imagery) with field interviews and participatory mapping, the research identifies significant tran...
What Limits Agricultural Intensification in Cambodia? The Role of Emigration, Agricultural Extension Services and Credit Constraints
This paper attempts to define the factors which determine emigration and rice double cropping, i.e. rice cultivation on the same plot twice per year, by rural households in Cambodia, and investigates whether these decisions influence each other using data from a two-period panel survey of 231 households in three provinces in rural Cambodia. In...
Policy Coherence in Agricultural and Rural Development: Cambodia
This paper presents the main findings of the Policy Coherence for Agriculture and Rural Development study. Policy Coherence for Development (PCD) is about making sure that policies for sector development do not contradict or undermine one another and that as far as possible, policies are complementary and create synergy. In practice, it is abo...
Improving the Governance of Water Resources in Cambodia: A Stakeholder Analysis
Irrigation development and management of water resources present serious governance challenges for many stakeholders in Cambodia. Farmers, government agencies, development organisations and the private sector all have a role to play, yet their roles and responsibilities are not always well defined. Contemporary ideas on water governance indica...
Assessing China’s Impact on Poverty Reduction in the Greater Mekong Subregion: The Case of Cambodia
This study investigates the multifaceted impact of China’s economic engagement on poverty reduction in Cambodia, focusing on trade, investment, and official development assistance (ODA). Using a framework developed by Jenkins and Edwards (2004), the paper analyses bilateral trade patterns, the role of Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI), an...
Irrigation Water Productivity in Cambodian Rice Systems
Cambodia’s economy is based largely on the agricultural sector which contributes 33 percent of the national GDP and employs more than 67 percent of the national labour force. Rice production is central to this sector: not only do the majority of Cambodia’s farmers depend directly and indirectly on the success of the rice crop each year, but bei...