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Growing Ibis Rice in Cambodia.
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Growing More Than Just Rice: Enabling a Local Civil Society Organization to Increase its Conservation Impact
Grantee Name: 
Sansom Mlup Prey
HOTSPOT
Indo-Burma
LOCATION
AMOUNT
US$19,990
DATES
Oct 2017
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Sep 2018
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Project Overview Overview
CEPF Strategic Direction Strategy
HOTSPOT
Indo-Burma
LOCATION
AMOUNT
US$19,990
DATES
Oct 2017
-
Sep 2018

Build the capacity of Sansom Mlup Prey to use ibis rice as a mechanism to reduce deforestation in Cambodia’s deciduous Dipterocarp forests by improving conservation incentives for farmers growing organic wildlife-friendly rice and increasing Sansom Mlup Prey’s ability to ensure compliance with conservation agreements by participating farmers.

Strategic Direction: 8 Strengthen the capacity of civil society to work on biodiversity, communities and livelihoods at regional, national, local and grassroots levels

Two smiling women stand in front of green rice paddies and forest.
Ibis Rice farmer Srey Bunang, left, and her neighbor, Nary, stand near their rice paddies in Kea Sway, Cambodia.
© Conservation International/photo by Julie Shaw