The Organization
The Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT delivers research-based solutions that harness agricultural biodiversity and sustainably transform food systems to improve people s lives. Alliance solutions address the global crises of malnutrition climate change biodiversity loss and environmental degradation.
The Alliance works with local national and multinational partners across Latin America and the Caribbean Asia and Africa and with the public and private sectors. The Alliance is part of CGIAR a global research partnership for a food-secure future dedicated to reducing poverty enhancing food and nutrition security and improving natural resources and ecosystem services.
Background information
The OneCGIAR Research Portfolio Program Scaling for Impact (S4I) will tackle global poverty food insecurity and climate risks by applying transdisciplinary science fostering partnerships generating evidence and delivering integrated solutions to maximize impact and minimize duplication.
As the pioneering program fully dedicated to scaling land food and water systems innovations we will ambitiously address critical challenges to meet pressing global needs. We will further establish CGIAR as a leader in agrifood systems innovation scaling effectively fostering partnership synergies to deliver scalable inclusive and responsible innovation benefits.
The Sub-Grant for Area of Work 5 Learning for Impact will generate actionable evidence through data analysis surveys and stakeholder collaboration to inform scalable policy frameworks training manuals and intervention packages aimed at enhancing food security nutrition-sensitive agri-food systems and value chain efficiency.
The CGIAR-ASEAN Innovate for Food regional program is built from eight Intervention Packages (IPs) each addressing different scales and components of the ASEAN agri-food system and collectively aiming to meet demands articulated by ASEAN senior ministers for safer healthier food from more climate-resilient and sustainable production systems.
IP8 support country-led transformation processes to strengthen the connections between production processing distribution and consumption to achieve food and nutrition security in the region. The IP will also enable ASEAN agri-food systems to deliver better livelihoods to stakeholders as well as sustainable and healthy food for all consumers. As a result of IP8 work millions of ASEAN stakeholders will enjoy consuming sustainable healthy diets with an adequate supply of sustainable safe and healthy foods and improved associated food-system livelihoods with enhanced gender equity and social inclusiveness across ASEAN food systems.
IP1 focuses on advancing regenerative agriculture and aquaculture practices while promoting the judicious use of agrochemicals. IP1 has been operational since July 2022. It is built on collaboration across IPs and on synergies with other programs including the now-completed CGIAR Initiatives on Asian Mega Deltas and Agroecology. IP1 the 2025-2026 work plan that outlines the activities needed to build on IP1 and its intersections with other IPs will leverage advances made across all ASEAN member states (AMS) in phase 1 of the CGIAR-ASEAN program. IP1 has defined two outcomes (1) Stronger scaling pathways for regenerative agri-food systems in Cambodia and Laos and (2) Enabling environment fostered for scaling regenerative agrifood systems across mixed farming systems in Cambodia and Laos. An integral part of creating an enabling environment for scaling regenerative agrifood systems is understanding the market systems that currently shape how products created in regenerative farming systems move from production to consumption.
About the position
The Alliance is looking for a Market Assessment consultant to support the Food Environment and Consumer Behaviour team (FECB) and utilize their expertise to fulfill two tasks:
(i) IP8: Review related national food system transformation dialogues reports food system country profile nutrition behaviour change strategy and food flows from regenerative agricultural products from Battambang Province to identify incentives for consumers and target actions to improve market incentives for products of regenerative agriculture;
(ii) S4I/IP1: Review the existing market intermediaries that can facilitate the movement of regenerative agricultural products from producers to markets in Cambodia.
Requirements
Key activities and deliverables timeline
Activity
| Deliverable
| Due date
| Working days
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(i) IP8: Review related national food system transformation dialogues reports food system country profile nutrition behaviour change strategy and food flows from regenerative agricultural products from Battambang Province to identify incentives for consumers and target actions to improve market incentives for products of regenerative agriculture
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Develop template for collecting related information on food flows from regenerative agricultural products from Battambang Province to identify incentives for consumers and target actions to improve market incentives for products of regenerative agriculture.
| Template for collecting information (applied in the consultation meeting event led by IIRR and the Alliance on 26 Sep 2025)
| 10 Sep 2025
| 2
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Review related national food system transformation dialogues reports food system country profile nutrition behaviour change strategy and food flows from regenerative agricultural products from Battambang Province to identify incentives for consumers and target actions to improve market incentives for products of regenerative agriculture.
| Full technical report on review results: providing results and discussing the results
| 29 Sep 2025
| 8
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(ii) S4I/IP1: Review the existing market intermediaries that can facilitate the movement of regenerative agricultural products from producers to markets in Cambodia
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- Apply the template developed by the Alliance team to collect the existing market intermediaries that can facilitate the movement of regenerative agricultural products from producers to markets in Cambodia
- Analyze the data collected
| - Data collected and analyzed (including those collected in the consultation meeting event led by IIRR and the Alliance on 26 Sep 2025)
- List of existing market intermediaries in Cambodia with their location contact persons and essential information;
| 28 Oct 2025
| 6
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Validate data through a multi-stakeholder meeting organized by the Alliance and prepare technical report on review results
| Full technical report on review results: providing results and recommendations
| 20 Dec 2025
| 4
|
Total days
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| 20
|
Required qualifications and experience
Cambodian nationality and/or strong proficiency in reading and writing Khmer;
Advanced level of English both written and oral;
Experience in conducting literature reviews across diverse sources;
Good understanding of different sectors including economics policy markets and food environments;
Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
Benefits
Terms of contract
A total of 20 working days over a period of four month from September to December 20 2025. No travel required.
The Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT offers a multicultural and academic research environment with competitive remuneration. We are an equal opportunity organization and strive for gender diversity and inclusion in our staff without regard to race color religion gender gender identity sexual orientation national origin ethnicity age disability marital status or any other characteristic.
Applications
The Alliance collects and processes personal data in accordance with applicable data protection laws.
Applications closing date: September 2nd 2025
Please note that email applications will not be considered.
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
We invite you to learn more about us at:
(RFP300801) - Market Assessment Consultant
