Khieu Borin News Today

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has approved a $43 million project in Cambodia to enhance the adaptive capacity of smallholder farmers, local communities and other value chain actors of the Northern Tonle Sap Basin to the increasing threats associated with climate change. The approval was made at the GCF’s 35th board meeting on March 15 in South Korea’s Songdo district.

Weaving is common throughout the Kingdom, especially in rural areas. Palm leaves are woven into everyday consumer products like baskets, boxes, trays or decorative products.

Unfavorable weather and the lack of a market are threatening the livelihoods of blue mussel-raising communities in the Peam Krasop Protected Area, in Koh Kong province.

Unfavorable weather and the lack of a market are threatening the livelihoods of blue mussel-raising communities in the Peam Krasop Protected Area, in Koh Kong province. Production of blue mussels (Mytilus edulis) this year could fall below 2020 levels, resulting in limited funds for next year’s cultivation, according to Vong Dara, the head of one such community.