Corporate social responsibility
What is corporate social responsibility (CSR)? Although there are several ways of defining CSR, the European Union in 2011 define CSR as a concept whereby companies integrate social and environmental concerns in their business operations and in their interaction with their stakeholders on a voluntary basis. At Khmer Organic Cooperative, CSR is defining CSR as any business approach that contributes to sustainable development. And they did.
The business approach of Khmer Organic is vastly contributing not only to the sustainable development goal but also the strategic development plan of Cambodian Government by contributing to social economic development, where the company do play role is creating job, including part-time work, promoting women in agricultural value chain, encouraging and supporting smallholder farmers, protecting the environment by actively promoted green and clean agriculture such as organic farming, safe agriculture, ecological agriculture, quality of water, biodiversity and habitat protection and improve healthy food access for all people in the country.
Of all the 17 SDGs, Khmer Organic cooperative has contributed to 5 SDG such as no poverty, good health and well-being, clean water and sanitation, decent work and economic growth and responsible consumption and production. So archived these goal that Khmer organic determine to contributing to, Khmer organic has work in close cooperation with many smallholder farmers and agricultural cooperatives based on values of honesty, equity, positive encouragement and responsibility to promote income and livelihood of farmers in the rural area.
