InfoSAWIT, BOGOR – Global Environment Facility - Food Systems, Land Use, and Restoration (GEF-FOLUR) supports food system transformation in the globe by promoting sustainable and integrated landscape and efficient commodity supply chain.
In FOLUR, Ministry of Agriculture through General Directorate of Plantation takes parts to create sustainable supply chain model in plantation commodities, such as palm oil, coffee, and cocoa through comprehensive landscape by noticing natural conservation, climate change, restoration, and area degradation.
Secretary of General Directorate of Plantation Ministry of Agriculture, Heru Tri Widarto said that following up the socialization about GEF-FOLUR in 2022, the officials of General Directorate of Plantation would coordinate, consult, and synchronize the plans of action, mechanism projects in Ministry of Agriculture in the signing of Implementation Arrangement (IA) and the socialization of GEF-FOLUR.
“And there is agreement with Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) about grant detail of the project,” Heru said in Bogor as in the official statement to InfoSAWIT, Monday (10/04/2023).
He also mentioned, for information, the project would be directly funded by delivering grant from Global Environment Facility (GEF) through United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and FAO for 72 months since 21 February 2022 and the first Project Document was signed by deputy, while this day, Derivative Project Document between Ministry of Agriculture and FAO would be signed as one major condition to get registration direct grant project to Ministry of Finance.
“We welcome FOLUR. We hope that this project would encourage every policy and program in Ministry of Agriculture in ever operational substance. What we need to focus is that how the project could manage areas in landscape – base,” he said.
The project would limit in five provinces and four commodities only. It could be the pilot projects to integrated landscape development in agricultural commodities and could be replicated in the future.
Heru also told the mission of FOLUR project for Ministry of Agriculture itself could encourage and escalate commodity production and productivity, encourage capacity enhancement, smallholders (farmers) capability through technical development, and capacity building in the regions to implement good agricultural practices and good hygiene practice for the commodities.
“This project is hoped to encourage and escalate smallholders/farmers’ capacity, develop sustainable plantation system in spatial – base which in the end, there would be quality and sustainable certification in smallholders/farmers’ level and we would get support for international recognition and wider trade market access in the globe,” Heru said. (T2)
