After her mother passed, Seuy Phok tended her fields with little help while raising her child alone. “Mixing the fertilizer, ploughing, and sowing—I do it all by myself,” she says.

For over four decades, Seuy harvested rice on land passed down from her grandmother and late father, using their same methods to work the land in the Tean Kam commune of northwestern Cambodia.

In June, the country’s wet season, rains sweep across rice fields and the broader Cambodian landscape, soaking rice paddies and the ground that generations of farmers have cultivated for their daily meal and family income.