Operational Themes -
Clean Energy Production
Technical card
Location: Cambodia
Dates: 2008-2012
Financial partner: Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation of Facilities (CARF)
Description of action
Agriculture has long been the most important sector of the Cambodian economy, with around 67.9% of the population relying on it for their livelihood. Few Cambodian farmers grow crops other than rice, leaving them vulnerable to crop failure and market fluctuations.
In this context, GERES works through agro-forestry projects to improve:
- food security: by increasing crop productivity and diversity
- energy used for cooking: by producing sustainable fuelwood, integrated with improved stoves
- resilience capacity: by creating pilot farming projects designed to adapt to climate variability.
GERES intends to disseminate agro-forestry models among palm sugar producers and private woodlot owners (42 households planted about 14,811 seedlings of gliricidia, cassia, pethecellobium, bamboo, pineapple, etc.) in order to diversify crops.
GERES Cambodia Website
