Promoting deforestation free agricultural commodity trade and enhancing agricultural prices
The PMU implemented various activities during this reporting period to strengthen Agriculture Cooperative (AC) management and land tenure security in the project area. On AC management, three trainings were conducted to build the capacity of AC management committees focusing on leadership and management skills, roles and responsibilities, documentation, report [...]
Project management unit facilitated Community Forestry Management Committee elections
As required by the Community Forestry sub-decree (2013), the PMU facilitated 7 community forestry groups (CFs) to re-elect their CF management committees (CFMCs) in July 2019 because their five year mandates expired. Under the coordination of PMU, the structures for these newly elected CFMCs were endorsed by their respective [...]
PMU facilitates forest law enforcement in the project area
To enforce Forest Law and conserve the remaining forests, the PMU facilitated forest patrolling in the 14 community forestry (CF) groups in the project site from July to September this year. The CF members have been collaborating with the local FA officers to patrol forests in their respective territories. [...]
Tumring REDD+ prepares for verification
From July to September 2019, a number of activities were conducted to prepare for the Tumring REDD+ project verification. Firstly, the Forestry Administration (FA) collaborated with the Wildlife Works Carbon (WWC) and the Korea Forest Service (KFS) to review 6 proposals submitted from potential verifiers. Based on the reviews [...]
Understanding Perceptions of Local Traders on Agricultural Commodities Trade and its Link to Deforestation in Cambodia
The cassava farms and O Kranhak CF in Tumring REDD+ Project Area (taken on 3 September 2019 by Project Management Unit) Kampong Thom province has 195,058 hectares of agricultural land, from which farmers have produced a variety of crops such as rice, cassava, corn, bean and others. While the [...]
PMU staff participate in an international conference
The Tumring REDD+ PMU staff attended the 28th session of the Asia Pacific Forestry Commission which was co-hosted and convened by the Korea Forest Service and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). It coincided with the celebration of the Asia Pacific Forestry Week, a regional [...]