Presentation at the 5th Global Science Conference on Climate-Smart Agriculture. Title: Empowering Farmers to Meet the Growing Consumer Needs: A Study Case of Rikolto’s Programme in Indonesia Speaker: Nana Suhartana

1. The 5th Global Science Conference on Climate Smart Agriculture 2019
9th October 2019 Nana Suhartana
Empowering Farmers to Meet the Growing Consumer Needs:
A Study Case of Rikolto’s Programme in Indonesia

2. Rikolto Indonesia (previously VECO
Indonesia) is as a member of Rikolto
International (previously
Vredeseilanden), an international
NGO based in Leuven, Belgium that
was established 30 years ago.
Rikolto Indonesia enables and
supports smallholder farmers to take
up their role in rural poverty
alleviation and to contribute to
feeding a growing world population
in an sustainable way.
RIKOLTO : Who are we?

3. In Indonesia, we focus on 5 commodities
COCOA COFFEE CINNAMON RICE SEAWEED

4. In Indonesia, we focus on 2 programs
Food Smart Cities Payment for Ecosystem Services

6. Sustainable food systems
Sustainable Food Systems are those food systems with low
environmental impacts, that contribute to food and nutrition security
and to healthy diets for present and future generations and that
generate employment and income opportunities for the poor.
Sustainable food systems are protective and respectful of biodiversity
and ecosystems, as well as human well-being. They provide culturally
acceptable, economically fair, affordable, nutritionally adequate, safe
and healthy foods in a way that balances agro-ecosystem integrity and
social welfare
CIAT, 2017

7. How to encourage farmers to be more successful
Organic farmers
ICS farmers
Conventional farmers

8. Rikolto in Rice program
• Working with 3 farmer organizations (APPOLI, APOB and MSA)
• There are 1,023 farmers are certified domestic organic
• 1,203 farmers are within Internal control system to produce
healthy rice
• 560 farmers are piloting SRP coming from ICS and
conventional farmers
• Total of farmers are 3,213
• Total farm size: 642 Ha
• Total rice production: 3,855 tons / year

9. Women empowerment
• Administration
• Internal inspection
• Discussion

10. Consumer program in Rikolto
• Consumer awareness (2009 – 2013)
• Healthy Food Healthy Living (2011 – 2015)
• Food Smart City (2017 – 2021)

11. Why a Food Smart City?
• 40% of the world’s cropland is location within 20 km of cities
• Cities manage vast public resources, infrastructure, investments
and expertise. At the same time, they are at the heart of
economic, political and cultural innovations
• While rapidly-growing urban areas are an important part of the
food challenge, cities have the right scope of governance to bring
about change.
• The Milan Urban Food Policy Pact was launched in 2015 and has
been signed by over 180 cities worldwide, including Rikolto’s
partner cities (Arusha, Tegucigalpa, Ghent, and Quito)
• Strategic change within Rikolto from “A better deal for farmers” to
“What will we eat tomorrow”  New focus on food systems

12. A systemic perspective
• As part of the Arusha Food Safety Initiative, actors are looking at:
• Production: changing farmers’ behaviour towards safe production
• Consumption: individual and institutional: working on access,
affordability and acceptability – health is used as an entry point to change
consumption behaviour
• Infrastructure and markets: KIOSK selling outlets in traditional local
markets
• Enabling environment: national standard, extension services, local food
safety regulations
• Research and technology: evidence-based action, trust building (lab-
testing)
• Socio-economics: fair prices, creating incentives
• Socio-cultural norms: awareness-raising to increase acceptability of safe
vegetables
• Climate change: supporting renewable-powered drip irrigation to increase
availability of safe veggies

13. Supporting external factors
• Rise of the middle class has brought a
change to healthy lifestyle.
• Selling of regular rice increase 5% per year,
while organic rice increase 10-15% per year.
• There is a trend of healthy life in middle
class society.
• Promotions on mass media on healthy life.
• Health recipes on internet and other media

14. Target group
• Family Welfare Movement - PKK (sub-village
to municipal level)
• Woman Muslim recitation groups.
• Mothers waiting for their children to go to
school in kindergarten
• Youngsters (High school and universities)
• Schools (elementary – high school)

15. • The Food Smart Cities Cluster is an
international programme in
partnership with municipalities,
farmer organisations, private
companies, research institutions,
international organisations and civil
society organisations.
• Our goal: to support city-regions to
implement policies and practices
that contribute to sustainable, fair
and healthy food systems.
• Multi-stakeholder cooperation is
at the heart of our strategy
Rikolto’s FSC cluster

16. Four specific objectives

17. 3. Cluster strategies
In order to support city-regions to adopt policies and practices that
contribute to sustainable, fair and healthy food systems, Rikolto implements
a three-tier approach

18. Level 1 – piloting innovative and scalable practices
Together with our partners, we implement pilot projects
to:
1. Assist cities in developing and implementing local
food strategies and policies and setting up
innovative governance mechanisms towards
sustainable urban food systems
2. Facilitate inclusive business models between urban
retailers and peri-urban farmers, and foster closer
rural-urban links
3. Enable schools to adopt sustainable catering
practices and promote healthy and sustainable food
in schools
4. Support city-regions to improve food safety and
develop effective and engaging local food safety
mechanisms
5. Empower consumers to make healthy and
sustainable food choices

19. Level 2 – Learning cycle

20. School socialization

21. Healthy Food Healthy Living campaign

22. Field visit to farmers

23. Practical exercises
Processing healthy foods such as healthy rice trials, soybean processing, etc.
Harmful substances in food

24. Track record - Indonesia
• 500 persons benefitting from the food
sharing initiative in Solo (2018)
• 3 farmer organisations (3,213 farmers)
supported to obtain their first
domestic organic rice certificate
• 7 school canteens supported to
procure healthy food in Solo and 8
trained on healthy food
• Draft standard for healthy school
canteens ready for submission to the
municipality of Solo
• 4 research reports on food waste
management, food literacy and access
to healthy food

25. Track record - Tanzania
• Safe food for Arusha: an inclusive
business model for MUVIKIHO
• Promotion of Good Agricultural
Practices and Quality
Management Systems
• Arusha Food Safety initiative
• Baseline studies on local
economy, food safety and food
access
• Contribution to the multi-
stakeholder platform for a food
policy in Arusha

26. Track record - Ecuador
• Involvement in the development
of the Quito Food Charter
• Contribution to the creation of
the Quito Agrifood Pact
platform
• Support to the youth and
women to engage in
agroecological production
• Strengthening local agriculture’s
resilience to climate change
• Distribution of local produce
through agroecological markets

27. Track record - Honduras
• Facilitation of an inclusive
business model between El
Consorcio Agrocomercial and La
Colonia
• Diagnosis of Tegucigalpa’s food
system using the RUFSAT
methodology
• Facilitation of the
multistakeholder platform on
the urban food system
• Support for the development of
hydroponics

28. Track record - Vietnam
• Supporting over 10 Participatory
Guarantee Systems (PGS) for
safe vegetables
• Development of a PGS toolbox
for practitioners
• Partnership with Hanoi’s Plant
Protection Department for the
inclusion of PGS in local policy
• Food system mapping in Da Nang
• Co-development of Da Nang’s
Food Smart City strategy

29. Rikolto Regional Office in Indonesia
Jalan Tukad Unda VIII/10 B, Panjer, Denpasar,
Bali 80225, INDONESIA
Phone: +62 361 445 8345
www.rikolto.org/Indonesia
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Mobile: +62 (0) 811 385 99 44
Email: nana.suhartana@rikolto.org