Funded by China Foundation for Peace and Development (CFPD) and implemented by Cambodia’s Civil Society Alliance Forum (CSAF), the three-year project is aimed at transforming this poor village into a model village for poverty alleviation in the Southeast Asian country.
Category: Cambodia
Gov’t cancels public claims of ownership in sanctuary
The government has repealed all previously issued letters certifying sales, purchases, transfers, occupation or ownership of any land within the Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary.
China can help solve the debt and environmental crises
They report that several countries under greatest China debt stress show great promise for both debt-for-nature and debt-for-climate swaps, including Angola, Cambodia, Myanmar, and the Solomon Islands, which score highest across simultaneous climate and biodiversity threats and opportunities.
The impact of local climate adaptation – and why it is important for all of us
Rice-producing and storm-vulnerable Southeast Asian countries such as Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia and Indonesia, for instance, are potential “risk exporters” to countries like Singapore that depend heavily on their harvests,
Cambodia’s population increased by 2.2 million, up 16 percent, in a decade
Between the two censuses, the young population (0-14 years) declined from 33.0 to 29.4 percent, the middle age population (15-59 years) from 60.0 to 61.7 percent, and the elderly (60 years and plus) increased from 6.3 to 8.9 percent.
Time is up for illegal loggers in protected park
The Royal Academy of Cambodia (RAC) will start enforcing the law to arrest perpetrators and seize timber and bulldozers as there is still illegal logging at Preah Vihear province’s Techo Sen Russey Trep Park.
Coastal communities to adapt for climate change
Funded by the Global Environmental Facility’s Least-Developed Country Fund (LDCF), the project will help coastal fishing communities and protected areas in Cambodia’s main four coastal provinces.
26 families along Sangke River given land concessions with mixed response
“We have prepared 8.5-by-8 metre plots of land for the families. The concrete foundations of the houses have been designed for two floors, meaning if they have more family members, they can build a second floor.”
Horticulture project gets Phase III
By 2022, the Swiss-funded project aims to provide sustainable income growth to 15,000 homestead farmers, 3,000 commercial farmers and 1,200 processors, as well as improve food security and nutrition for 72,000 farmer households, he said.
Hun Sen: Lakes filled in for national developments
Prime Minister Hun Sen has announced continued operations to fill some lakes in Phnom Penh to create land for developments, though he is against the unrelated practice of damming rivers or blocking waterways.