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Fighting back against climate change.
May 28
Written by Paul Mauer（https://www.maddox.foundation/field-notes?author=59962cbed482e9b722d7ebac）
For the communities in Samlaut, climate change has arrived.
When your income comes directly from the land, a shifting climate — longer dry seasons, a less predictable harvest, and soil that gives less each year — is a direct threat to your livelihood. Restoring the landscape bolsters biodiversity, but it’s also a way to rebuild the natural systems that hold water, hold soil, and keep farming viable as conditions get harder.
That's the idea behind this project: restore the forest and the farmland at the same time, so the recovery of the land and the security of the people living on it advance together.
The approach blends forest restoration with agroforestry and agroecology — farming methods that work with the landscape rather than against it — to build climate resilience, strengthen biodiversity, and open up better, more durable ways for families to earn a living.
Much of the work is already underway with community forest members in the Sangker River Basin headwaters in Battambang Province, the same watershed where we've focused our restoration efforts — chosen because protecting a river's source protects everything downstream of it.