Some have already moved on and started their own small rural business, but in many cases they need technical assistance or access to credit to strengthen their enterprises or to create new ones that could lift them out of poverty.
The project will work to strengthen organizations of rural entrepreneurs and help them to identify and promote new business opportunities.
There are already some 600,000 rural small enterprises and micro-enterprises, both formal and informal, in the North-East, most of them the result of women's initiatives, including food products and textile handicrafts.
With this loan, IFAD will have provided funds for six projects in Brazil since 1980, totalling about $141 million.
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