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IFAD in Indonesia: voices from the field

© IFAD 		Rewarding poor rural people for nurturing the land

Poor rural people manage vast areas of land and forest. They have the potential to be important players in protecting natural resources and providing important environmental services. An IFAD-supported project has helped build momentum and public interest in rewards for environmental services and has developed ways to offer incentives to poor farmers who protect ecosystems at the national level in China, Indonesia, Laos, Nepal, the Philippines and Viet Nam.

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© IFAD 		Income-Generating Project for Marginal Farmers and Landless in Indonesia (P4K II)

In Indonesia of the mid-1980s, nearly 37 million people lived in absolute poverty with incomes below the equivalent of 320 kg of rice per year. Millions of smallholders, farmers, farm workers and fishermen were materially and financially unable to tap into the opportunities offered by 20 years of economic growth in the country and, with no collateral, there was no hope of obtaining a bank loan

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Statistics
Projects: 14

Total cost:
US$776.3 million

Approved IFAD loan:
US$383.7 million

Directly benefiting:
2,104,900 households
Contact Information

Ronald Hartman
Operations Adviser and country programme manager
Via Paolo di Dono, 44
Rome, Italy
Work: +39 0654592184
Fax: +39 0654593184
r.hartman@ifad.org

Anissa Lucky Pratiwi
Country Presence Facilitator
Jalan SADAR IV/8 RT 05/02 Cinganjur
Jakarta, Indonesia
Mobile: +62 8180 6852825
a.pratiwi@ifad.org
anissalucky@yahoo.com