CLIMATE SERVICES NEEDS NI BATTAMBANG PROVINCE: RICE CULTIVATION AND CASH CROPS: CASSAVA AND MAIZE
This report presents a summary of findings from a series of climate risk workshops (CRW), including the cropping systems supporting rural livelihood in Battambang province in the north of Cambodia. It is one of the pilot provinces of the project 'Applying seasonal climate forecasting and innovative insurance solutions to climate risk management for the agriculture sector in Southeast Asia also known as 'DeRISK Southeast Asia'. The national assessment on the demand for climate services is a major activity under the project. The project cooperates with Regional Integrated Multi-hazard Early Warning System (RIMES), Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF), General Directorate of Agriculture (GDA), and Provincial Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (PDAFF) at the national and provincial level, as well as local farmer organizations and farmer cooperatives to provide the climate information to end-users. This technical step should support further actions towards a climate services strategy for MAFF and defining efficient mechanisms to reach Cambodian farmers with weather-based advisories and the stakeholders' network for sustained service delivery. DeRISK Southeast Asia, with support from RIMES, MAFF's GDA, and PDAFF, is implementing field-level pilots for climate services delivery. This initiative aims to build evidence and provide support to the scaling process through implementing a pilot Local Technical Agro Climate Committee (LTAC) in Battambang
