Cambodian Farmer Federation Association of Agricultural Producers (CFAP Cambodia)

The Cambodian Farmer Association Federation of Agricultural Producers (CFAP) was founded in January 2002, followed by the reformulation and development of her working policy and governance structure accordingly for a first period of five years (2002-2006) and led by nine Commune Farmers’ Associations+ in Svay Rieng province (South East Cambodia). The organization has three tiers of levels: national, provincial, and commune/sangkat.

There are 26 farmers’ organizations (03 associations and 23 cooperatives) now registered as members of CFAP Cambodia from 11 provinces in Cambodia (Banteay Meanchey^*, Kandal, Kampong Thom, Kampong Cham, Kampot, Kep, Odar Meanchey^*, Siem Reap, Prey Veng, Svay Rieng, and Tboung Khmum). CFAP has a total of 21138 households, of which 9769 households are led by women (46%) from 173 villages, 50 communes/Sangkat, and 26 districts. CFAP also has about 105,690 individual farmer members, including 54,959 female (52%) as affiliated members.

The organization aims to build the capacity of farmers’ associations/cooperatives in Cambodia to become professional service providers, so they can extend services to their farmer members and clients directly by themselves now and in the future. The current programs of the organization are:

Agriculture

Capacity Building

Agribusiness/marketing/value chain

Extension

Use of a revolving fund and

Institutional Strengthening.

In order to bring strong voices of farmers heard to the public, therefore, CFAP as the NIA of MTCP2 has initiated the so-called “national farmers’ platform” in collaboration with four other farmers’ organizations that have similar vision, mission, and goal to support farmers in Cambodia. CFAP has facilitated the five farmers’ organizations to work together and finally signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in December 2016.