Fighting climate change
Climate change has a huge impact on agriculture. We support smallholder farmers in establishing and expanding climate-adapted agriculture and train young people in sustainable farming methods.
The effects of climate change are hitting people in the Global South particularly hard. Floods are destroying harvests, droughts are causing everything dry up, people and animals starve. Unsteady rainy seasons make it difficult for farmers to prepare and plant their fields in time. In Cambodia, 80 percent of people live in rural areas and are largely dependent on agriculture. Many farmers have switched to “modern agriculture” in recent years. This has increased the productivity of food production, but offers little in the way of adaptation to the changing climate, destroys biodiversity and contaminates soil and water through the use of chemical pesticides. In contrast, we are working with local partners and smallholder communities to create more sustainability in agriculture - for healthier food, future-proof cultivation methods and stable incomes despite climate change.
Pupils as pioneers in sustainable agriculture
Our focus is on raising young people's awareness of climate-adapted agriculture. In specially created school gardens, pupils learn how to grow vegetables and eat a healthy and balanced diet. They learn about the life cycle of plants, prepare beds, sow and care for the seedlings. The harvest is used in the school kitchen.
They learn how to combat weeds in an environmentally friendly way and how to produce fertilizer. They also develop innovative methods such as vertical gardens on fences or drip irrigation with plastic bottles. In this way, children and young people become pioneers in solving climate problems.