Along the west coast of Aceh Darussalam, in Indonesia, where the 2004 tsunami wiped out entire communities, the lush landscape has been revived. New villages have been built and farmers are back on the land, planting crops in rehabilitated fields. This film tells the story of Aceh's farmers who are leading the rehabilitation of irrigation systems covering over 50,000 hectares of rice fields in the first large-scale community-centered irrigation project in Aceh. This groundbreaking project has strengthened over 450 water users associations, built 120 kilometers of new canals through community contracts and is expected to raise rice production in Aceh by an estimated 50,000 metric tons a year.
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