Cambodia Project
Timeframe
June 2020 to June 2025
Country Context
Cambodia is an agrarian economy and agriculture is a significant contributor to GDP (around 35%) and employs a large majority of the population. Crop production accounts for around half of the sector’s GDP, and livestock around 15%. Cambodia’s updated Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) establishes a conditional target of 41.7% reduction of emissions by 2030.
Following successive years of strong export-led economic growth, Cambodia achieved lower middle-income status in 2015 and plans to be an upper middle-income country by 2030. In 2022, agriculture accounted for 66% of total national GHG emissions, and livestock accounted for about 25% of agriculture GHG emissions. Demand for livestock products is expected to increase rapidly as populations, incomes and urbanisation rates increase. Livestock sector development plans project growing animal populations and promote improved productivity. Livestock GHG emissions are projected to increase by 50% in 2020-2035, with almost 60% of the increase due to growing cattle population.
Progress
The Improvements to the inventory are supporting the development of domestic agricultural policies by establishing robust production data, identifying mitigation opportunities for livestock and tracking reductions.
Reports
Project Information
Implementation Partners
General Directorate of Animal Health and Production (GDAHP), of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF)
Other In-country partners
MAFF Climate Change Technical Working Group
Ministry of Environment (Inventory office)
FAO Cambodia Country office
Technical training on equipment installation at Cambodia's Royal University of Agriculture. (21 Feb 2024).
Cambodia researchers on a funded trip to the headbox respiratory chambers at Can tho University, Vietnam (Jan 2024).