Green economy for women farmers to combat climate change

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About Me

Wahana Lingkungan Hidup Indonesia (WALHI) (Regional Central Java) is an independent environmental organizations, non-profit and largest environmental movement in Indonesia. WALHI campaigning at the international level through a network of Friends Of The Earth International (FoE) is composed of 71 grassroots organizations in 70 countries, 15 affiliate organizations and more than 2 million individual members and supporters around the world. In Jawa Tengah region, we
advocates for a fair and democratic social economic and political system that guarantee basic rights to livelihoods and healthy environment for our people. WALHI Jateng integrates principles of public accountability into all systems and the process of project implementation, financial management and information disclosure including organizational policy making. All policy making and changes are responsible of organizational board including annual budget and conditions of services

Office Address:
Jl. Jambu Raya No.11,
Sumurboto, Banyumanik
Kota Semarang, Jawa Tengah 50269
Phone: (024) 7478955
Fax: (024) 7478955
Province: Central Java
INDONESIA
email:[email protected]
www.walhijateng.org

My Business

The project will benefit 2 households (Ibu Masronah and Ibu Darsini) in the remote sub-villages and will target the poorest segment of the population in the project area, including smallholders cultivating less than about one hectares, landless labourers, unemployed youth, and woman-headed households. Agriculture is the primary field of employment in the village of Tempuran and Nyemoh Jawa Tengah. However, the poverty and unemployment rates are high.
Most farmers live from small scale farms vulnerablewhich yield just enough to satisfy daily family needs. Marketing of agricultural products or professional agribusiness is hardly possible for individuals. Women are especially affected by unemployment due to still prevailing traditional role models. They are marginalised in policy making and are under-represented in income-generating activities. Joint activities to promote sustainable livelihood and participation of women are therefore of particular importance to enhance economic growth of the rural areas.
District of Semarang is one of the districts most vulnerable to climate change, with impacts ranging from extreme weather events and random floodings to droughts and food scarcity, climate change has been a constant reality that many of Semarang have to face. Bamboo, a social common capital contributes to the social, economic, and ecological development of a region. WALHI Jawa Tengah strongly believes that bamboo can provide a wide array of solutions to the farmers poor problems, bamboo can help save the environment, can contribute to building safe communities with people enjoying a sustainable community-based alternative livelihood in rural region of Semarang.

Loan Proposal

The use of this loan will assist Ibu Ngatinah and Ibu Mundarsih in managing bamboo cultivation in their yard. Mrs. Ngatinah and Mrs. Mundarsih will use this loan to purchase organic fertilizer for 1 (one) month and purchase equipment for bamboo cultivation. The profit earned in this loan is about 10-15 percent of net income in a period of 2 (two) months. We hope that Lenders incorporated in Zidisha can help and contribute to climate change issues and in particular the economic improvement of poor women farmers in Indonesia

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