Tumring REDD+ prepares for verification
From April to June, 2019, the Wildlife Work Carbon (a project carbon developer) and the Project Management Unit (PMU) of the Tumring REDD+ reviewed the reports from 2015 to 2018. These reports are being encoded at the moment and all information regarding social and biodiversity have been extracted for [...]
Promotion of Free Deforestation Agricultural Commodity Trade and Enhance Agriculture Price
PMU has been working with Actions for Development (AFD) to develop the AC by-laws, roles and responsibilities for 02 Agricultural Cooperatives (Tumring and Mean Rith Agricultural Cooperative). Tumring REDD+ Project allocated some investment fund for each AC to make sure that they are properly functioning. Additionally, the fund is [...]
Improvement of Degraded Agricultural Land and Productivity Toward Reducing Agricultural Land Expansion into Forested Area
In February 2019, two officers from KT-PDAFF delivered a technical training to 70 households, who are from three different community forestry, including O’s Krahak, Prey Tratey and Kbal Dauntey. The training focused on cassava productions and agricultural land improvement. Additionally, KT-PDAFF is supporting six households to establish six compost [...]
On-going Law Enforcement Activities Are Required to Reduce Forest Loss and Degradation
With strong support from Our Field Implementation Unit (FIU), local authority and community forest patrol team, only this quarter, as a result, have confiscated 5 chainsaws, 02 handed tractors, 9.5m3 sawn woods, and 3m3 of logged woods from illegal forest offenders across the 14 community forestry. Patrolling teams are [...]
Preparation for Tumring REDD+ Verification
Last year, the project has met a key milestone of achieving successful validation (https://mer.markit.com/br-reg/public/project.jsp?project_id=104000000012444) under Verra and CCB. The validation has set outstanding tasks and enforcing field activities for verification. A part of the project verification, the PMU and partners conducted the second Social and Biodiversity Impact (SBIA) [...]
Increase Stakeholder Participation in Reducing Deforestation and Forest Degradation
In January 2019, the Project Management Unit (PMU) had a meeting with the Action for Development and Kampong Thom-Provincial Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (KT-PDAFF) to discuss and develop action plans in order to improve the degraded agricultural land and promote agriculture productivity. The meeting also discussed on [...]