Macroeconomic Study of Implications of Small Scale Farmers’ Investment in the four Lower Mekong River Basin countries (CAMBODIA, LAOS, VIETNAM, THAILAND)
Sustaining and Enhancing the Momentum for Innovation and Learning around the System of Rice Intensification in the Lower Mekong river Basin countries (SEMIL-SRI-LMB) is a sixty-month European Union funded project led by the Asian Institute of Technology along with its partners including Oxfam and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The project associates are the SRI-Rice Centre of the Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture and Development (CIIFAD) in the US, and the University of Queensland in Australia. The project is implemented in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam. It seeks to contribute to maintaining food security, generating income and enhancing resilience of rain-fed smallholder farmers of the Lower Mekong Region (LMB) confronting climate change.
As part of this, SEMIL-SRI-LMB project seeks to commission regional research on how the macroeconomic growth has significant implication to smallholder farmers, women farmers and landless producer (and women in particular) in Lower Mekong Basin countries and looking at what key macroeconomic policy development with has impact and support them to have equal benefit from country growth as well as regional growth. The research will look at the current situation of each LMB countries different macro-economic strategy development and implementation which smallholder economy is not well understood. At the same time this research will look at the opportunity cost associated with investing in smallholder agriculture of otherwise, is not well understood in the region.
We are seeking a consulting agency or consultant with at least 15 years or more demonstrable research experience in the areas of sustainable development, agricultural and rural development, land management, land use planning. Comprehensive understanding of economic, political, institutional and technical issues related to sustainable development and its association to food security, sustainable livelihood of smallholder farmers, agriculture laborers and landless people in LMB countries.
The consultancy will be hosted at the Oxfam Office in Phnom Penh. Institutions and Individuals are invited to submit competitive tenders not exceeding USD 19,600. To request the Terms of Reference for this consultancy, please write to [email protected] [1], quoting “Macroeconomic Study of Implications of Small Scale Farmers’ Investment”. Deadline for submission of tender is November 16, 2015.