PCRL Project Objective: Rice based communities in the Tonle Sap region of Cambodia reduce their climate vulnerability and increase their resilience to climate change through an ecosystem-based, market driven approach.
Climate change poses significant current and expected risks to Cambodia, particularly for farmers. Forecast trends indicate a wetter wet season with more intense rainfall events (leading to increased flooding), a hotter and drier dry season (leading to increased droughts), a later onset and shorter duration of the wet season (leading to longer droughts and more crop failures), and increased variability in weather patterns. Agriculturally reliant communities, such as those in the Tonle Sap plain, are particularly vulnerable to these threats (high exposure, high sensitivity), especially those relying on rain-fed production of relatively lower-value commodity crops such as rice. Unfortunately, these communities and the institutions that support them also have low adaptive capacities, particularly at sub-national levels.
