The essential role women contribute in small-scale is crucial but often overlooked.

Access to water has relieved the women of the burden of collecting water far from their homes, and has increased farms production.

The objective of the FMM sub-programme is to contribute to closing the gender gap in agriculture by enhancing rural women’s economic empowerment and strengthening their crucial role in rural development, decision-making and in resilience building.

Family farming has deep roots in rural Indonesian life, but Nissa’s struggles to maintain those traditions demonstrate the threats family farmers regularly face.

By coming together and forming cooperatives, smallholder farmers have found it easier to earn organic certifications, invest in new production techniques and sign contracts with companies and traders.