Cambodian researchers will begin assessing if children growing up with access to wild, diverse, unprocessed and nutritious foods from native forests show improved development outcomes.
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After years of environmental assault — from dam building, overfishing, and logging — stretches of the Mekong River, upon which millions of people depend, appear to be recovering. Heavy rains have helped, along with a crackdown on illegal fishing and other conservation efforts.
Since 2008, an internship programme created by Cambodia’s Royal University of Agriculture (RUA) and Israeli training centre Agrostudies has sent 1,729 Cambodian students to the Middle East nation, according to Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Veng Sakhon.