Project Description

The Project will be implemented in about 1,000 villages in five districts: Blora and Temanggung in Central Java; Donggala in Central Sulawesi; Ende in East Nusa Tenggara; and East Lombok in West Nusa Tenggara. The Project will enhance poor farmers’ capacity to adopt innovative agricultural production and marketing methods by better targeting village-level public investments to location-specific needs, providing farmers with access to information, and re-orienting the focus of agricultural research to the needs of marginal rain-fed areas. Non-government organizations working through elected village facilitators and supported by government and private agencies will help farmers to identify innovations, and undertake the necessary public investments to support adoption.