This research is motivated by efforts to increase the entrepreneurial skills of students through agribusiness activities in the framework of empowerment. Pondok pesantren is the oldest non-formal educational institution in Indonesia which is engaged in the religious sector. The learning model is packaged flexibly and is not diploma oriented. This boarding school is oriented towards developing the entrepreneurial spirit of the santri with the ultimate goal so that the students can open a business unit and be independent. This study describes the implementation of empowerment of students through agribusiness activities related to the input, process, and impact of empowerment. This research uses qualitative methods with interview, observation, and documentation techniques. The research findings show that: (1) input for empowerment, namely students, natural resources, curriculum, capital / funds, and partnerships; (2) the empowerment process is carried out through several stages, namely (1) business training; (2) capitalization; (3) assistance; and (4) marketing; (3) the impact of empowerment which is carried out, namely the number of santri alumni of Islamic boarding schools who are independent and able to explore through the management of idle land into agricultural, livestock and fishery areas in increasing the income assets of the formed business groups.
This research is motivated by the social problems faced by several developing countries. The contribution of women entrepreneurs is very important. Women's entrepreneurship can be said to be an agent of change because it plays an important role in socio-economic development and in poverty alleviation. The purpose of this study is to compare the role of women as social entrepreneurs in developing countries. The object of this research is women entrepreneurs from developing countries, namely Indonesia, Malaysia, Sub-Saharan Africa, India, and Cameroon. Content analysis is a method used to analyze data. The results show that women entrepreneurs in developing countries have made a significant contribution to their society by adopting business models to offer creative solutions to social problems at hand. In other words, women entrepreneurs have become agents of change in society. The new findings show that in the context of social entrepreneurship, women are more suitable to lead social enterprises.Keywords: women entrepreneurs; change agents; social entrepreneurs; social enterprises
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