Detailed Gender Analysis

The analysis identifies women as central actors in Cambodian agricultural value chains, particularly in rice and cassava, though they face systemic barriers in literacy, technical training, and access to extension services. While women often control household finances and run a majority of micro-enterprises, they are more vulnerable to climate shocks and labor shortages caused by rural-urban migration. The report recommends a Gender Action Plan (GAP) to increase women's participation in agricultural machinery operation, infrastructure construction, and value chain management, leveraging the Women Farmers Network for outreach.

• Women play a dominant role in agricultural enterprises and cooperatives in Cambodia, owning 65% of all businesses and representing 60% of agricultural cooperative members, although most of their businesses are micro-enterprises with four or fewer workers.
• There is a significant gap between women's contribution to food production and their access to management and technical services; women produce 70% of the country's food but only 24% are household agricultural holding managers and 10% are beneficiaries of extension services.
• Rural-urban migration, driven by household debt and crop failures, has created labor shortages and left a high number of households headed by older women who must manage livestock and cultivation while caring for grandchildren.
• Climate change increases the vulnerability of poor women due to their limited access to resources, restricted mobility, and lack of knowledge regarding new production techniques, magnifying existing gender inequalities.
• Women are central to the 'value added' in rice and cassava chains, often acting as collectors and intermediaries who manage financial operations, while men typically handle the physical hauling and transport of crops.
• Agricultural mechanization is reducing the demand for unskilled manual labor traditionally performed by women, such as transplanting and harvesting, leading to a desire among women to be trained in operating machinery to secure paid work.
• Despite legal frameworks for equal land rights, social norms and a lack of literacy hinder women from registering land in their own names, though 70% of land titles are issued jointly between spouses.
• The project's Gender Action Plan (GAP) sets specific targets to ensure women's inclusion, including that women represent at least 40% of participants in consultations and 40% of the labor pool trained to operate agricultural machinery.

APA

Green Climate Fund (2017). Detailed Gender Analysis. https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/gender-assessment-fp076-adb-cambodia.pdf

Chicago

Green Climate Fund. Detailed Gender Analysis. 2017. https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/gender-assessment-fp076-adb-cambodia.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{greenclimatefund2017detailed, author = {{Green Climate Fund}}, title = {{Detailed Gender Analysis}}, institution = {Green Climate Fund}, year = {2017}, month = oct, url = {https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/gender-assessment-fp076-adb-cambodia.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }