WOMEN FARMERS FOCUS STRATEGY TO ACHIEVE POVERTY ALLEVIATION AND SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
Herlina Tarigan and Sri Wahyuni
Indonesian Center for Socioeconomics and Policy Studies
Jln Tentara Pelajar 3B, Bogor 16111
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 ae 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. 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: 1) The majority of the women (85%) were participated in carrying the implementation of the program such as doing in all activities of raising the chiken and decided the use of the production for the household welfare; 2) Women faced on a basic constraint such as policy and 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 farmers, poverly alleviation, program, lesson learned
Topic: Economics, Social and Business