Sustainable and Responsible Investments
Investment in the agro-industry can support food and nutrition security, create jobs, tackle poverty, and achieve other important sustainable developments in Cambodia when implemented correctly. These are the reasons why CPSA began working in the field of responsible and sustainable investments in the agriculture sector.
Our Activities
Our team has been engaged in two important projects in this area, namely the World Economic Forum (WEF) Sustainable Investment Project, and the promotion of the ASEAN Guidelines for Responsible Investments in Food, Agriculture and Forestry (ASEAN RAI).
With the goal to support relevant MAFF Departments to promote improved compliance and accountability of agricultural investment, and raise stakeholder awareness of best RAI practices, in 2020 the RAI Alliance was created and is composed of Mekong Region Land Governance (MRLG), the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS), Oxfam Cambodia, Farmer and Nature Net (FNN) and the Cambodia Partnership for Sustainable Agriculture (CPSA). The Alliance has agreed on a two-year Strategic Work Program to support government in gathering evidence from the ground to provide inputs to the development of the contract farming law and explore other agri-business investment models; Document farmers experiences and build awareness and capacity of key stakeholders on RAI principles and good practices with a specific focus on private sector.
In 2021 the Alliance is launching the project “Generating evidence-based dialogues on agri-business models that ensure secure land rights, equitable benefit sharing and inclusiveness of SHF, in the framework of Contract Farming (CF) law and related policies”.
- Formulate recommendations for an improved regulatory framework of CF and other AI business models based on a review of experiences of SHF and Agro-investors.
- Support Policy-makers in promoting more inclusive AI models based on a good understanding of opportunities and risks for SHF and developing improved regulations for AI in policies and practice.
- Raising Government, Agro-investors and Farmer Organizations awareness of RAI principles and good practices