A lo largo de las comunidades costeras de Indonesia, muchos pescadores en pequeña escala luchan por ganarse la vida. Indonesia es el tercer productor mundial de pescado, pero muchas de esas comunidades han carecido históricamente de acceso a la tecnología y los recursos que necesitaban para preservar su captura hasta que llega a los mercados, que suelen estar lejos de sus calas costeras rurales.

Un nuevo proyecto se centrará en dos materias primas fundamentales para los medios de vida de los pequeños productores: el cacao y el aceite de palma.

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) Asia and Pacific Regional Forum on Inclusive and Sustainable Rural Transformation

he International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and Indonesia signed a financing agreement earlier this month to sustainably improve incomes and livelihoods and improve nutrition for 67,400 rural smallholder farming households in 18 districts in Sulawesi Island, West Kalimantan and East Nusa Tenggara.

Agriculture ministers and high-level government representatives from Fiji, Indonesia, Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu are attending the Indonesia-Pacific Forum today at the Grand Hyatt, Jakarta, to discuss rural development gains and rural poverty challenges in the region. International development experts and partners will also participate. The event is hosted by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the Ministry for National Development Planning and the Ministry of Finance, Indonesia.