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CIFOR–ICRAF addresses local challenges and opportunities while providing solutions to global problems for forests, landscapes, people and the planet.

We deliver actionable evidence and solutions to transform how land is used and how food is produced: conserving and restoring ecosystems, responding to the global climate, malnutrition, biodiversity and desertification crises. In short, improving people’s lives.

Making Bemban mat

Kia from Pengerak village makes a bemban mat. Bemban is a non-timber forest product (NTFP), West Kalimantan, Indonesia, May, 2010.

Photo by Ramadian Bachtiar/CIFOR

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poverty alleviation, women, woman's status, bemban mat, ecosystem services, economics, livelihoods, West Kalimantan, income, social welfare, basic needs, CIFOR, household income, nontimber forest products, canes and rattans, forest product, household expenditure, females, social impact, sentarum, socioeconomics, community forestry, woman, NTFP, handicrafts, living conditions, Indonesia, horizontal, Pengerak, rainforests, Kabupaten Kapuas Hulu, Kalimantan Barat, ID.

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