Cricket farming and Chaya planting for solution the specific challenge of Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience to reduce livelihood vulnerability of the rural poor.

1. Cricket and Chaya for solution the specific challenge of
Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience to reduce
livelihood vulnerability of the rural poor
CCar project
06/2022/NID054
6266-AF-EU-UNDP-ISGAP

2. Why Cricket farming?
• Emit low levels of greenhouse
gases.
• Resilience as cricket farming is not
directly affected by the poor
weather conditions
• Short life cycle, but high biomass
production, enhancing food
production and security
• Poses less risk of zoonotic diseases
• Feed conversion less that 2kg of
feed for 1 kg of cricket
• Quality for food and feed nutrition

3. Why Chaya gardening?
• Resilience as Chaya
gardening is not directly
affected by the poor weather
conditions
• Easy to replace and fast
growing
• Provide year-round fresh air
and green village
• Drought tolerant plants
• Nutritious plant for food
and feed

4. We have modified cricket pens that can be used on land and on water
Concrete block pen SMART board pen Floating pens during flooding 2022

5. Scaleup concept of CCar or Sustainability
1. Direct beneficiaries will share a partial of inputs to other farmers who actively
attending in training (cricket eggs for example, from 40 farms to 100 farms)
2. Original fresh cricket products produced by well-trained farmers following food safety
guidelines set by EU standard of food safety for insects-Special product-not enough
fresh cricket as demand
3. Partnership with Agro-Food enterprise from private sector-to respond for postharvest
of the cricket value chain
4. Cricket farming and Chaya gardening are the two commodities of friendly-
environment and can be adapted to current climate change
5. Cricket pen designed for floating when there is a flooding, thus farmers are still on-
going cricket farms
6. Chaya can be easy for re-planting if there is flooding
7. Both cricket farming and Chaya gardening require less water for long period of drought

6. Challenges-Lack of funding to support:
• 2 key experts in training on (i)-climate change concept, and (ii)-
household food nutrition
• Project final evaluation
•Agri-Food Enterprise’s involvement, some parts
of this (not all)
• University students’ involvement

7. Acknowledgement