Cambodians try out smartphones to track – and ease – climate woes


  • TECH
  • Friday, 26 Apr 2019

Cambodian farmers harvest water mimosa, a popular vegetable dish, at a farm in Phnom Penh on February 13, 2019. (Photo by TANG CHHIN Sothy / AFP)

TMAT PAELLY, Cambodia: Yin Socheat, a 29-year-old Cambodian farmer, is immersed in her smartphone – but it isn’t the latest viral meme she’s looking at. 

Instead it’s the pilot for a new app that she hopes will help secure a better future for herself and her family, as climate change brings wilder weather to Cambodia. 

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