Dipantara is an organization engaged in organizing farmer groups.
Getting organized is vital for small-scale farmers in developing countries. On their own, individual farm families can do little to improve their livelihoods: farmers' limitation on the issue of capital, skills, experience and scale to solve problems, invest, market or innovate need to be facilitated.
Unfavorable factors for farmers (inadequate input), as follows: limited knowledge, education and skills, reduced intervention from formal institutions/Village Institutions, coupled with a lack of funds and technical capabilities, as well as individual farmers and no partner, causing the conditions and situations faced by farmers (output) to become increasingly unfavorable.
For smallholders, participation in the forest management covered by the commitment of Dipantara for ethical forest management and can give them a chance to increase the stability and sustainability of the livelihoods of avoiding deforestation and improving labor practices.
