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Water Hyacinth Floating Garden : A floating garden solution that provides economic self-sufficiency to floating villages

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Nationality
Cambodia, France
Group
AC/AL studio
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AC/AL studio

About Project

Prek Toal floating village is at about one hour by boat from the land, obliging its inhabitants, mainly fishermen, to buy fruits and vegetables that are transported by boat to the village, and thus are sold at a higher price to the families living there (who are poorer than those living on the lands).

Our project aims at creating a vegetable floating garden, and offering to these villagers the possibility to cultivate fruits and vegetables locally, to foster their autonomy and food security, through the implementation of a hydroponic technique which consists of using invasive water-hyacinth plants as a fertile substrate to produce diversified vegetables and fruits.

Answering several aims: sanitary (by filling nutrient deficiencies), environmental (by using a nocive and invasive plant that is superabundant on the Tonle Sap lake, as the main material for the floating garden), socio-cultural (through trainings and the transmission of skills and know-how) and economical (by developing new sources of incomes for the families), this community floating garden would allow to implement and experiment an innovative low-technology in Prek Toal floating village, and offer trainings to the inhabitants, so as to enable them to create their own family floating garden and be more self-sufficient.

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