Habitat

Building secure, safe and healthy environments for children

One of the environmental problems facing Indonesians in rural areas is a shortage of fertile land. Sometimes, farmers cut down large sections of forests to cultivate more crops. As a result, deforestation has become a major problem.

Over the past two years, communities in Bima have planted trees and improved marginal land to reverse this trend. Now, much soil in this region is more fertile and rice and peanut yields have increased.