Environmental policy and administrative management

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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