CIRAD has developed in Central Java, in collaboration with the Center for Soil and Agroclimate Research and Development CSARD (Bogor), an innovative, multi-disciplinary and multi-scale participatory approach aiming at developing sustainable rainfed agriculture often synonymous with marginalized rural communities, food insecurity, povertyand inappropriate land and water management practices that have resulted in a continuous and insidious decline in productivity.
An integrated water and land management approach to develop small farmer oriented agriculture on upland areas while combating natural resource degradation and downstream impacts in upper catchments.
