approaches used in CBA such as mental models, seasonal calendars, timelines, community mapping and modeling, transect walks, ranking, dream maps and drawings, theatre, poems, songs, participatory video, stakeholder analysis and key information discussion 13. Hence, for on the ground level, community-based adaptation (CBA) is one of the tools to address Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particulary target 2.4, to ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extream weather, draught, flodding and other disasters and that progressively improve land and soil quality 14. Cambodia is one of the most vulnerable countries in the regions among South-East Asia countries and climate change would be expected to affect this poor country significantly. Ministry of Environment, Cambodia 15 states that Cambodia faces many challenges in managing its resources sustainably while ensuring secure and productive livelihoods for its population. Cambodia Community Based Adaptation Programme (CCBAP) has been designed to implement the understanding of climate change for the present and future risks. As a result, the CCBAP takes into account flooding and droughts, which have been identified as the most serious risk to communities, and integrates adaptation strategies in the short term with vulnerability reduction and risk management in the future. It has been predicted that Cambodia will experience higher annual rainfall, with prolonging dry period in the rainy season and longer dry season and a more intensive wet season 16. Among several projects for mitigating climate change vulnerability or climate change adaptation in Cambodia, the project titled “Promoting Sustainable Agriculture in Samroung Commune, Prey Chhor District, Kampong Cham Province, Cambodia” was implemented by Institute of Environmental Rehabilitation and Conservation (ERECON) since April 2011- March 2016. The project has promoted organic agricultural practices for sustainable development and one of its objectives is to mitigate the vulnerability of climate change to small-scale farmers in Samroung Commune through community based adaptation (CBA) approach. The case study aims to share the lessons learnt from promoting sustainable agriculture practices through CBA, which could be able to enhance farmers or communities’ ability to climate change adaptation in the project area. II. METHODOLOGY The 5-year project, financially supported by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), was conducted in 11 villages of Samroung commune, Prey Chhor District, Kampong Cham Province in order to promote sustainable agricultural practice in this area. Samroung Commune is one of the third biggest producers of agricultural products among 10 districts of Kampong Cham to supply the local market in the district 17, most of farmers grow rice and vegetables and use a lot of chemical pesticide and fertilizer 18. The Community Based Adaptation (CBA) approach to promote organic farming by cyclic use of natural resources was conducted in the project area in order to enhance farmers or communities’ ability to climate change adaptation as well as to mitigate the vulnerability of climate change. The questionnaire survey was designed to conduct baseline survey with 450 farmers in July-August 2011 before starting the project and in February, 2016 terminating the project. The numbers of participatory learning workshops and technical trainings for producing and practicing Proceedings of the International Conference on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services for the 315 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Policy and Practice 27-29 June 2016, Cha-am, Phetchaburi, Thailand
Proceedings of International Conference on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services for the Sustainable Development Goals : Policy and Practice 27-29 June 2016 at the Sirindhorn International Environmental Park, Cha-am, Phetchaburi, Thailand
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