Consultancy for Ground survey of land-use in Mondulkiri province and precise identification of potential coffee expansion areas

Company Description

About SNV Netherlands Development Organization

SNV is an international not-for-profit development organisation, working in more than 25 countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. SNV is a mission-driven global development partner, rooted in the contexts and societies where we work. And that mission is to strengthen capacities and catalyse partnerships that transform the agri-food, energy, and water systems to enable sustainable and more equitable lives for all. Our global team of advisors use their specialist expertise to facilitate sustainable change in the livelihoods of millions of people living in poverty.

About the Dutch Fund for Climate and Development (DFCD)

DFCD enables private sector investment in projects aimed at climate adaptation and mitigation in developing countries. Funded by The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, it is a €200 million investment and technical assistance fund to increase the resilience of communities and ecosystems most vulnerable to climate change. The DFCD is managed by a consortium of Climate Fund Managers (CFM), World Wide Fund for Nature Netherlands (WWF-NL) and SNV Netherlands Development Organisation, led by the Dutch Entrepreneurial Development Bank, FMO.

DFCD provides finance and Technical Assistance (TA) to mobilize and scale private sector funding for climate smart development. The DFCD’s Origination Facility (OF), managed by SNV and WWF, identifies investment opportunities that support climate change adaptation, biodiversity conservation as well as sustainable and inclusive development co-benefits such as, environmental protection, poverty reduction and gender equality. The OF supports the further development of these investment projects with private sector partners through the provision of TA for project design, feasibility assessments, piloting, and other activities which de-risk and enable the graduation of projects for commercial investment.

Kofi and the DFCD

Kofi Co., Ltd was founded in 2009. The company started as a coffee service provider to coffee chains, to meet the demand for professional services, such as supplying barista equipment, training, and overall support to this growing sector. Kofi is now one of the leading coffee roasting companies in Cambodia, importing most of its green coffee beans from other countries, notably Vietnam.

Kofi is now seeking to reduce their over reliance on Vietnamese green beans and to support the development of a Cambodian coffee value chain. It will do this by encouraging and supporting small holder farmers to begin to improve their coffee production practices through agroforestry, and an expansion of the coffee production areas, with a focus in Mondulkiri province. Kofi was selected by SNV origination facility in Cambodia to support this initiative, including building sustainable supply chain of coffee through contract farming in Mondulkiri province, sourcing coffee varieties that adapt to climate change to introduce to farmers, setting-up a nursery as demo farm, and constructing a wet-and-dry milling facility for processing local coffee to reduce the importation of coffee.

Job Description

The objective of the consultancy is to estimate, and precisely map, the potential areas within Mondulkiri province where coffee expansion is ecology and legally suitable, to help Kofi plan for and prioritise their efforts and investments in encouraging farmers to adopt coffee.

Kofi and DFCD have already collaborated on an assessment, based on secondary data, that:

1. Identified the areas of Mondulkiri which are bio-physically suitable for coffee growing;
2. Assessed deforestation risks based on forest cover and deforestation / degradation trends;
3. Identified additional risks linked to protected areas, land status and land concession; and
4. Recommended to Kofi suitable locations and strategies to mitigate the risk of forest loss and degradation.

While this assessment included local consultations, it primarily relied on secondary data. The condition on the ground of areas identified as suitable for coffee has not been determined, and in-depth local consultation about existing land-use patterns on this land, the bio-physical conditions, and the legal/ownership/rights issues related to this land has not been conducted.

The original assessment identified four high priority villages and 9 medium priority villages where the expansion of coffee could be promoted, with a rough estimate of 37,000 hectares being suitable for coffee expansion.

This assignment needs to conduct extensive ground-truthing of the findings of the original report and further local data collection, in combination with satellite analysis, in order to more precisely assess suitable expansion areas, and the existing land-use in those areas.

The expected tasks include:

• To review existing report of deforestation risk assessment and E&S Assessment reports to identified loopholes for further analysis.
• Propose and agree suitable methodology, sampling strategy, and field research plan.
• Conduct farm-level surveys in 13 villages (minimum 260 farmers).
• Collect-localised spatial, economic and agricultural data from other public agencies.
• Collate these data into a land-use assessment which clearly identifies the suitable areas for coffee expansion and calculate with more precision the suitable ha for coffee expansion without deforestation
• Produce a series of detailed maps with indication of these areas using field measurements and satellite data
• Conduct workshops with Provincial department of land and the District and Commune authorities, and other conservation NGOs, projects to validate and improve the maps/data.
• Develop a summary report.

Qualifications

• Legal registered firm in Cambodia
• Strong track record in conducting remote surveys. A minimum of 5 years’ experience in related area.
• Proven track record in similar assignments;
• Availability of a high quality team.
• Fluency in written and oral English.

Additional Information

Interested applicants are requested to submit their technical proposal, financial proposal, track record and CVs via the SmartRecruiter through provided link. The application should be submitted by Wednesday, 10th July 2024.

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