Description
Cambodia is home to diverse food systems and is well endowed with nutritious food. However, poor households often cannot afford this safe and nutritious food, exacerbated by Covid-19 socioeconomic impacts. To break the intergenerational cycle of malnutrition, the food system can contribute to improving access to healthy diets by diversifying the availability of food and making these foods more physically accessible.
Diversification needs to be complemented by measures to improve food safety and quality and to promote the consumption of fresh, healthy and diverse foods. Actions are operationalised in the Agricultural Strategic Development Plan (2019–2023), the Agriculture Sector Master Plan (2021–2030) and the Joint Monitoring Indicator of the Technical Working Group Agriculture and Water (TWG-AW) (2019–2023) reporting to the Council for the Development of Cambodia.
Overarching commitment (for commitments submitted pre-2025)
Title
Agriculture diversification
Description
By 2030, the crop-diversity ratio will have increased to 75%.
GNR assessment
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Verified
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| SMARTness index |
High
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Details
| Global nutrition target(s) |
Childhood stunting
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| Nutrition Action Classification(s) |
Policy >
Food supply chain
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Measurement
| Key indicator | Increase in crop-diversity ratio |
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| Measurement plan | Collect own data |
| Value | Measurement date | |
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| Baseline | 63.44% | 2019 |
| Target | 75% | November 2030 |
Progress
| Value | Measurement date | Status | |
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| Progress report | The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) is responsible for monitoring the crop diversity index indicator. However, there is no reporting in the MAFF annual reports, and there is no confirmation that it will be monitored in the future. There might be a change in priorities. | May 2024 |
Progress not able to be assessed
Despite the commitment maker’s active participation in the process, they were unable to provide the required information about the baseline data or the progress indicator's updated (latest) level or status, or the data provided were not in a format allowing calculation of progress.
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