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View all search resultsWomen take lead in community climate action
While women-led initiatives help address challenges and needs to mitigate and adapt to climate crises, they often face tall barriers in participating in formal decision-making to push for greater impacts.
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A farmer harvests rice on Jan. 28, 2026, in in Tolang Jae village, Sayur Matinggi district, South Tapanuli, North Sumatra. As climate change disrupts their daily life, women are stepping forward and becoming key drivers in environmental conservation and energy transition in communities. (Antara/Indrianto Eko Suwarso)
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hile prolonged drought in recent years in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) and West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) has disrupted agriculture and other sectors, the water crisis has been disproportionately affecting women, who often bear the burden of domestic responsibilities such as cooking and cleaning.
The situation prompted several female farmers in both provinces, including Imakulata Jedia of a women-majority farmer group in West Manggarai, NTT, to work in restoring degraded land and water sources.
“We restored degraded areas, including by planting trees around springs where water flow had declined to increase the water supply,” she said in a discussion held by the Women Research Institute in Jakarta on Wednesday.
The efforts eventually bear fruit: Plants like bamboo as well as eucalyptus and banyan trees helped improve water absorption and make soil in Imakulata’s village become productive again, allowing farmers to grow vegetables and local food crops for sale.
In other villages in NTB, similar efforts also restored drying springs, helping women to save an hour usually spent walking to a nearby clean water source.
As climate change disrupts many aspects of daily life, women-led actions have become key drivers in environmental conservation and energy transition in local communities across the country.
Baiq Sri Anom Padma from Rarang village in East Lombok, NTB, took an initiative to process piling organic waste and livestock manure around her home into biogas. The waste was previously improperly disposed of and affected the environment, sanitation and local residents’ health.
