With one more year before the 2015 deadline for achieving the Millennium Development Goals, the 2014 Global Hunger Index report offers a multifaceted overview of global hunger that brings new insights to the global debate on where to focus efforts in the fight against hunger and malnutrition. The state of hunger in developing countries as a group has improved since 1990, falling by 39 percent, according to the 2014 GHI.

The 193 individual country profiles capture the status and progress of all UN Member States, and the 80+ indicators include a wealth of information on child, adolescent and adult anthropometry and nutritional status, in addition to intervention coverage, food supply, economics, and demography. This tool is particularly useful for nutrition champions at the country-level, as it presents a wide range of evidence needed to assess country progress in improving nutrition and nutrition-related outcomes.

The key message of this report is as follows: Cambodia is highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change on fisheries, which supply livelihoods for millions and up to 80 per cent of all animal protein in the diet. Changes in fishery production are likely to have the greatest impact on the people most dependent on fisheries, whose poverty, marginalization and lack of livelihood alternatives leave them ill-equipped to cope.

According to this website, climate change is a fundamental challenge for developing countries. It has the potential to impede development and reverse progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals. Australia is providing support to developing countries to adapt to climate change, reduce their carbon emissions and pursue cleaner development. A recent example of a notable funding relates to promote climate-resilient water management and agricultural practices in rural Cambodia.

According to this study, tropical countries such as Cambodia require information about forest biomass to successfully implement climate change mitigation mechanism related to Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+). This study investigated the potential of Phased Array-type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar Fine Beam Dual (PALSAR FBD) 50-m mosaic data to estimate Above Ground Biomass (AGB) in Cambodia. AGB was estimated using a bottom-up approach based on field measured biomass and backscattering (sigma(o)) properties of PALSAR data.

This report provides a general overview of social forestry in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region and its potential to contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation. The report focuses on Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia (particularly the States of Sarawak and Sabah), Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand and Viet Nam.

This paper argues that climate change adaptation in the health sector requires decisions across sectors, levels of government, and organisations. The study uses social network research to identify key organisational players engaged in developing health-related adaptation activities in Cambodia. It finds that strong partnerships are reported as developing across sectors and different types of organisations in relation to the health risks from climate change.

This research represents an initial step towards understanding the major problems identified by communities as priorities to be addressed in order to become less vulnerable to climate related risks as well as other kinds of event. The research has two goals: to research and document the priorities expressed by the communities and identify better ways to support grassroots civil society building and networking.