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Sustainable Land & Biodiversity Conservation Project

The project proposes to take a group of 25 farmers from each of 10 villages and give them IFFS - Integrated Farmer Field School in NRM (Natural Resource Management) using the Farmer Field School approach of discovery and learning over 22 weeks. The FFS will be largely based on a Baseline Survey of village natural resources conducted at the start of the project, thus allowing the farmer participants to address some of the problems encountered every day in a practical manner for a more sustainable future on the land. Participants completing IFFS and an Individual Action Plan will be rewarded with a Rabbit Water Filter as practical application of how to save firewood by not having to boil water every day. The farmer groups will also be encourage to develop Individual Action Plans to tackle environmental problems such as pesticide use, health and safety. On the group action front farmer participants will be encouraged form and register Self-Help Groups/Farmer Associations to address larger matters and to maintain farmer interest in the farm ecosystems and farm development on a sustainable basis. The Farmer groups will be given additional training to support these endeavours.
A parallel REAL (Schools Pesticide/Environment program) will run in some of the schools in the project area, thus enforcing the message about pesticides and the environment with school children as well as adults in the project area

Objectives:
- o build and strengthen the capacity and competency of 20 -24 Farmer Trainers for TOT (training of trainers) training in NRM and sustainable agriculture.
- o improve agricultural productivity and diversification through IFFS on NRM and Sustainable Agriculture for 10 farmer groups of 25 farmers from 10 Villages in the Ou Reang Ov and Tboung Khmum districts in Kampong Cham for IFFS Training.
- o continue build the capacity of farmer trainers and farmer association members through organizing additional training (short course training), exchange visit and farmer forums.
- To capture all the lessons learnt and share with relevant stakeholders including community, other NGOs, and donors through conducting the participatory monitoring and evaluation.

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Project Snapshot

Grantee:

Srer Khmer

Country:

Cambodia

Area Of Work:

Land Degradation

Operational Phase:

Phase 3

Grant Amount:

US$ 50,000.00

Co-Financing Cash:

Co-Financing in-Kind:

US$ 14,950.00

Project Number:

KHM/OP3/2/07/17

Start Date:

7/2007

End Date:

6/2009

Status:

Satisfactorily Completed

Project Characteristics and Results

Emphasis on Sustainable Livelihoods

Establishment of 10 Self ? Help Groups/ Farmer Associations in order to facilitate discussion and the formal organisation of villagers to maintain their agricultural systems in a way that benefits both the long term sustainability of their agro-systems and the environment itself; and to identify the major environmental threats that exist at the farmscape level and develop community action plans to manage those threats.

Capacity - Building Component

Select 20 -24 Farmer Trainers for TOT (training of trainers) training in NRM and sustainable agriculture. The concept is to have 2-3 farmer trainers (FTs) deliver the IFFS training to the farmer groups monitored as well as providing technical backstop by Srer Khmer. Conduct Training of Farmer Trainers (TOT) in NRM and sustainable agriculture. This TOT is a 3 week residential course to prepare FTs to lead and manage the IFFS. The training will be conducted by using the resources from Srer Khmer.

Notable Community Participation

The proposed project will directly benefit some 250 participants with an estimated 1250 indirect family and other beneficiaries in a positive manner in that they better understand their environment, on the farm, forest, land and air and how to better maintain it, and how to avoid or at least reduce risks to health frOrganize farmer association meetings which are run principally by the newly trained Farmer Trainers. Activities will be undertaken with members from each Farmer Association to identify the specific environmental problems that exist at the village level. This is when the villagers themselves will be introduced to the different types of environmental problems that they may have and how to address them. Farmer Association members will be encouraged to put together plans based on S.W.O.T. analysis which identifies the major threats and opportunities for the environmental problems being planned for. Specific activities will be planned to take advantage of opportunities and minimise the threats to the environment and the farmer?s environmental income. om the careless use of pesticides.

Promoting Public Awareness of Global Environment

This activity will involve meeting with the Farmer Trainers to gain a common understanding of the concept of sustainable natural resource management and farmland biodiversity including the concepts of ?farmscape? and ?habitat?. This will form the basis of an understanding of the inter-relationship between the environment and the impacts that their farm livelihoods are having on it. This will form the foundation of what is used to take action on enhancing environmental protection on the farm. Important concepts will include: biodiversity protection, pollution control, soil conservation, organic farming techniques, rice intensification, pesticide and fertilizer use, water control including run-off prevention, and forestry harvesting techniques.

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