Agriculture Livelihoods project will train hundreds of farmers from Stung Treng and Prey Veng provinces in effective agricultural practices over the next few years. We focus on helping rural farmers attain a sustainable income and secure food sources. The typical farming family owns an adequate plot of land for producing crops and livestock sustainably. In spite of this, many rural farming families still live on or below the poverty line, struggling to provide enough income for food security, education and other necessities. This is largely due to the lack of knowledge about advanced farming techniques, combined with the underuse of resources. Many rural farmers also remain uneducated about
basic business practices and do not know how to improve their situation through shared skills and resources.
All of these factors mean rural farmers are often taken advantage of by middlemen, who pay next to nothing for produce, taking the greater percentage of the profits for themselves before selling on to the processing factories and retail companies. It is the belief of AOC that these small but numerous injustices can be addressed, by empowering local farmers with knowledge and better practices. This way, the agricultural sector does not have to lend itself to poor economic outcomes for its workers, and in fact, the potential for mutual prosperity is great.