March 2nd, 2012 | by Chris Hufstader
Farmers transplanting rice in Pursat province, Cambodia. Photo by Sokunthea Chor/Oxfam America.
A recent trip around the magnificent Tonle Sap lake reminded me how close to extreme poverty so many farming families can be, needing only a small nudge in the wrong direction to change their lives in ways that can take them decades to recover.
The reminder came while visiting Yem Dieb and Say Chhoun in Pursat, a province south of the lake. The wife and husband had learned how to grow rice using the System of Rice intensification thanks to the work of our partner Srer Khmer, which has trained nearly a thousand farmers in SRI over the last two years in Pursat. Read and see more pictures, visit oxfamamerica.org.
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