Cricket Farming & Chaya Gardening solution for Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience

At LDC, we aim to address the issue of climate change in Cambodia. The Cricket Farming & Chaya Gardening Project is our solution to the specific challenge of Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience (CCar) to reduce livelihood vulnerability of the rural poor.




The project is to provide stallholder farmers job opportunities and constantly cash their income by establishing cricket farming and chaya gardening. Cricket farming is a short production cycle within 40 days, while Chaya can be harvested after 3 months of planting, and can be continued to harvest within every 45 days cycle. Through a simple technology of cricket pen, cricket farming would help in mitigating the impacts of climate change in order to build farmers’ resilience. A cricket pen is designed for use on land and by floating on water in case the target area is flooding. This design allows farmers rear cricket without any damages during the flood. Farmers can grow Chaya along the fence of their house or on any piece of their fallow land. Chaya is tolerant to long periods of drought in dry season and requires less water for surviving.




For more information on our solution, do refer to our Slide Deck.