ABSTRACT
Arsenic hazard in Cambodian groundwaters has been extensively documented over the last 10 years (e.g. Polya et al. 2005) with serious health impacts first documented by Sampson et al. (2008) and Mazumder et al. (2009). The urban population accounts for only 22% of the overall population (WHO 2009), which illustrates the predominance of rural life in the country. In addition the agricultural industry accounts for 35% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Cambodia (World Bank 2011) and, in 2007, accounted for 56% of employment (Guimbert 2010). Therefore any factors, such as poor health due to arsenic consumption, which may impair agricultural production, will have significant consequences for Cambodia as a whole and on the specific households which require agricultural output for subsistence and income.
