Cambodia

The scarcity of high-quality and timely agricultural data is a key constraint for Cambodia to effectively plan, finance, and implement agricultural development strategies.

With the goal of closing the agricultural data gap, Cambodia has been the first country in the region to receive FAO technical support, starting with the Cambodia Inter-Censal Agriculture Survey (CIAS) in 2019 and continuing on an annual basis thereafter under the Cambodia Agriculture Survey programme.

A total of over 100,000 interviews have been completed since the programme started, and the anonymized data from three survey rounds publicly disseminated to date.

Under the scope of the 50x2030 Initiative, the National Institute of Statistics and the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries have progressively been able to scale up the production, dissemination and use of agricultural statistics as a solid foundation for improved policy and decision making in the agricultural sector. The programme has significantly contributed in strengthening the national agricultural statistical system. Noticeably, the knowledge, skills and know-how learned from FAO’s technical assistance have also successfully been applied to other national survey and censuses programmes.

News

A wide range of data and resources from the Cambodia Agricultural Survey available to users

12/04/2021

In July 2019, the National Institute of Statistics (NIS) of Cambodia – in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries (MAFF), undertook the first large scale survey on the agriculture sector since the Cambodia Agriculture Census in 2013. In this endeavor, the two institutions received the technical and financial support from FAO's AGRISurvey programme – now part of the 50x2030 Initiative.

Joint press release: Release of the Report of the Cambodia Inter-censal Agriculture Survey 2019

05/02/2021

Phnom Penh, 5 February 2021 – On the 9th of February 2021, the National Institute of Statistics (NIS) of the Ministry of Planning (MoP), in partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF), and with support from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), will organize the Cambodia Inter-censal Agriculture Survey 2019 (CIAS 2019) Report Release Workshop.

FAO and Cambodia organized Training of Trainers for national Agricultural Survey 2020

15/12/2020

FAO, through its AGRISurvey programme, joined forces with Cambodia’s National Institute of Statistics of the Ministry of Planning (NIS) and the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) to organize the Training of Trainers (ToT) for the Cambodia Agricultural Survey 2020.

Cambodia Inter-Censal Agricultural Survey (CIAS) Commence, Results due Early Next Year

29/07/2019

Following the launch of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)’s projects to support an annual survey of agriculture in late March 2019, they saw the data collection commenced since the start of July and set to be finished this week.

FAO Cambodia and MAFF sign of on Technical Cooperation Project to support an Annual Survey of Agriculture

04/04/2019

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) representative, Mr Alexandre Huynh, and HE Hean Vanhan, Secretary of State for the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF), signed an agreement for a Technical Cooperation project to support the application of agriculture survey data to policy, strategy, and program planning in Cambodia, in conjunction with the Cambodia Inter-Censal Agriculture Survey (CIAS) 2019.

Publications

Start date: 2018

Status: Ongoing

Objective: Improvement of the annual agricultural survey to produce more and better data for policy makers

Partners: National Institute of Statistics (NIS) of Cambodia; Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries (MAFF)

Agricultural integrated survey programme (AGRISurvey)