ABSTRACT
The food crisis of 2008 has renewed the interest of countries in increasing rice production to meet domestic needs and to gain from the opportunities for expanded exports. In the Mekong delta, Thailand and Viet Nam are well-established rice-exporting countries and are the two top rice exporters in the world. Cambodia, which is situated in the Mekong basin between these two major exporters, also has the potential to participate in the export market in a significant way, although its export performance in the past four or five decades has been poor due to several constraints. Indeed, in the 1950s, Cambodia was one of the world's leading rice exporters. In the wake of the food crisis, the Royal Government of Cambodia is renewing its efforts to reestablish the country as an important exporter of rice.
