Off-farm and Non-farm Employment: A Perspective on Job Creation in Cambodia
In rural Cambodia, options to maintain sustainable livelihoods have been limited to subsistence agriculture for reasons that are largely historical. Efforts to modernise the economy during the 1950s and 1960s bore some fruit, but the real impact was restricted to a few urban areas. During the 1980s and 1990s, some activities fanned out into the...
Off-farm and Non-farm Employment in Southeast Asian Transitional Economies and Thailand
This study examines the status and growth of non-farm and off-farm activities in Southeast Asia and their potential to provide employment in rural areas. Based on countryspecific field studies, each country team looks at the scope and diversity of small and medium-scale off-farm and non-farm activities and their market linkages, and puts f...
Facing the Challenge of Rural Livelihoods: A Perspective from Nine Villages in Cambodia
Since the inception of the Research Programme at the Cambodian Development Resource Institute (CDRI), considerable effort has been devoted to undertake diagnostic and policy studies on rural livelihoods, land, poverty, and natural resources. In 2001, CDRI launched a field survey of nine Cambodian villages to study the current state of rural liv...
