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Consolidating Capacities for Disaster Risk Reduction in Agriculture in Cambodia

Year of publication 2015

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 4p.

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Brochure, flyer, fact-sheet

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Almost every year, floods and droughts cause significant losses and damages to agriculture in Cambodia. This not only threatens the food and nutrition security of thousands of smallholder farmers, but also reduces livelihood security. The effects of climate change will put the food system under additional stress. The DIPECHO funded project will contribute to minimizing these effects though integrating Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) into the MAFF (Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries) C limate Change Priorities Action Plan for Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries 2014-2018, and developing a Plan of Action for DRR in agriculture for Oddar Meanchey province as well as testing and disseminating climate- and disaster-resilient farming practices in both target provinces, Kampong Speu and Oddar Meanchey. Besides, though the project small-scaled irrigation systems in Kampong Speu province shall be rehabilitated.

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