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INDONESIA: South Kalimantan Agriculture Area Development Project

Socio-economic and Production Systems Study - 1997

Year of publication 1997

Pages 13

Author Investment Centre Division

Product type Document

Category Technical report

Series title FAO Investment Centre Studies and Reports

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) In preparing an investment project, development strategies and project components are defined and revisited during project formulation through a consultative process that often includes Socio-economic and Production Systems Studies. These studies are conducted to develop an appreciation of the situation in which the intended beneficiaries live, and their perceptions of their problems, needs and priorities. The present study was carried out on a project in Indonesia for which the overall objectiv es were to: alleviate poverty through rural development in upland agricultural areas in some of the province's poorest villages; generate economic growth in these areas; and improve the conservation of natural resources by assisting the intensification and diversification of agricultural systems.

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