Yayasan Sekar Kawung

Leaveraging Biodiversity and Culture Heritage for Resilient Village Economies. Sekar Kawung supports local communities to protect their biodiversity and enrich their culture, and to use these as the basis to build multiple value chains, and contributing to resilient village economies. We are a multi disciplinary gender-inclusive Participatory Action Research (PAR) team of facilitators. We combine ethnobotany, agro-ecology, traditional agroforestry, economics, data science, food technology, are textile production skills, to help communities fully understand their local economic potential, develop business plans and access to finance and markets. Our aim is to help communities capture value in the village. Traditional Textiles and Sustainable Fashion We are proud of our proven track record in the traditional textile sector, where we have successfully built a connected ecosystems of small village businesses, whose goods and services flow to a value based fashion business with a nat...