06 MAY Growth Opportunity for Beef Cattle Industry The domestic beef cattle industry has great growth potential and Indonesia has the opportunity to develop its own.
04 MAY Kirana Megatara Promotes Good Agriculture Practices through Competitions One of the long-standing sustainability issues for natural rubber in Indonesia is the suboptimal quality of rubber produced by smallholder communities.
20 APR Integrated Financial Service to Support Innovative Financing Nestlé collaborates with telecom provider Telkomsel and Bank BTPN on a joint service to allows smallholder farmers to access BTPN financial services through Telkomsel’s network.
14 ARP Innovative Financing In Agriculture for Better Yield FAO estimates that the world population will grow from 7 billion in 2012 to 9.1 billion in 2050, which is a 30 percent increase. Food demand will grow faster as a result of accelerated urbanization and richer populations.
05 APR Agri-Finance: The Role of Informal Lending In the previous issue, we looked at farmers’ “access to finance” and some of the assumptions often made. For this issue, I wanted to look at the role of informal lending.
30 MAR Welcoming Bambang Harymurthi as PISAgro Advisor The PISAgro secretariat is proud to acknowledge Bambang Harymurti as part of PISAgro’s board of advisors as of February 2016.
16 MAR Mangngoy: Increasing Income While Combating Climate Change After working as a teacher and cocoa farmer for twenty-two years, Mangngoy became a fulltime cocoa farmer after his tenure as a school principal ended in 2006.
04 MAR A World Where Sustainable Farming is the Norm UTZ Indonesia focuses its interventions to help farmers, workers and their families to fulfill their ambitions and contributes to safeguard the world’s resources, now and in the future.
