Ecosystem-based Adaptation in Cambodia

Project Title 

Enhancing climate change resilience of rural communities living in protected areas of Cambodia.

Project factsheet

Key Figures:

  • Budget: USD 4.95 million
  • Executing Entity: Ministry of Environment, Government of the Kingdom of Cambodia
  • Area rehabilitated: 4,798 hectares of land, including mangroves, diversified home gardens, and drought-tolerant rice paddies
  • Beneficiaries: 5,138 people
  • Fund: Adaptation Fund
  • Timeframe: 2013-2019

Description

In Cambodia, UNEP and partners are helping people adapt to climate change by improving agricultural resilience, reforesting vast swathes of natural land, and establishing ‘home-gardens.’ Unabated deforestation and climate change have dried out soils and caused a fall in rainfall for some parts of the country. In response, this project trained people to grow trees in specially constructed nurseries and carry out patrols to halt illegal logging. The project is restoring at least 1,875ha of land, and forests, wildlife and water are already returning.

From mountains to the coast, the project is helping rural Cambodians to set up small farms and irrigation systems to improve both diets and incomes. The project has repaired falling yields and failed harvests of staple crops - such as rice - by training farmers on climate forecasting and how to plant paddies with more resilient varieties. The agricultural productivity will be increased for at least 1,900 family agriculture areas.

 

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