This project helps smallholder farmers, in their supply chain, recover from the economic challenges caused by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and improve their resilience to climate change impacts.

The project will pragmatically address the constraints faced by smallholder coffee farmers in Lampung, especially women farmers (women farmers are particularly vulnerable due to their limited access to land, credit and inputs) with the aim of increasing the capacity of women, empowering them and simultaneously incentivizing them to be more involved in the coffee sector in Indonesia.

The overall goal is to achieve a sustainable smallholder coffee farmer group formation that is economically rewarding, women friendly and climate resilient in the COVID-19 recovery era.

The technical assistance (TA) aims to:

• develop at least 50 coffee farmer groups (women farmers comprising an average of at least 25% of group members) and train at least 100 farmer group educators (FGEs), including at least one female and one male per farmer group, in Indonesia in climate-resilient coffee farming best practices adapted to the needs of women and the local context;
• pilot test biochar kilns with coffee farmers in Indonesia, with at least 25% women beneficiaries.