Women Farmers Focus Strategy to Achieve Poverty Alleviation and Sustainable Agriculture

Tarigan, Herlina and Wahyuni, Sri (2020) Women Farmers Focus Strategy to Achieve Poverty Alleviation and Sustainable Agriculture. In: Proceedings The 4th International Conference on Green Agro-Industry, 22-23 Oktober 2019, Grand Inna Malioboro.

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Abstract

Report on poverty alleviation program showed that women play significant role in the success of the program, therefore their potential should be empowered to get the maximum achievement. Since the majority (13.10 millions) of poor family are in villages with main occupation as farmers, meaning most poor family are farmers. Therefore a base information for policy on poverty alleviation program for farmers should be collected. Research on poverty alleviation program of farmers family have been conducted in Jember District – East Java in 2019. The data were collected through Rapid Rural Appraisal (RRA) method with respondent consist of farmers family who received poverty alleviation program “Bedah Kemiskinan Rakyat Sejahtera (Bekerja)” or Tackle Poverty for People Welfare in 2018 and related institution from all level who participated in the program. Qualitative data analysis were implemented and the results were presented descriptively. The results show that: 1) A lesson learned that the majority of the women (85%) were participated in carrying the implementation of the program instead the -beneficeries target is man.; 2) Women faced on a basic constraint such institutionally that influence their access to participate optimally in the technical assistant. 3) The women participation significantly influence in the success of the poverty alleviation program. A lesson learned could be derived as conclusion is “women had not been taken in to consideration in the planning of the program”. The suggested strategy on every poverty alleviation program for farmers is through women empowerment focus strategy. Keywords: women, focus, poverty alleviation

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Uncontrolled Keywords: women, focus, poverty alleviation
Subjects: H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
S Agriculture > S Agriculture (General)
Depositing User: S.P., M.Sc Danar Wicaksono
Date Deposited: 24 Jun 2020 10:51
Last Modified: 24 Jun 2020 10:52
URI: http://eprints.upnyk.ac.id/id/eprint/22768

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