RBFJakarta Outcome Statements & Recommendations

1. RESPONSIBLE
BUSINESS FORUM
ON FOOD AND
AGRICULTURE
FOOD
FARM
FOREST
COMMUNITY
25—26 APRIL 2016
GRAND HYATT, JAKARTA
INDONESIA
OUTCOME STATEMENTS
AND RECOMMENDATIONS

2. “ It is important to scale
up these public–private
partnerships and the
Ministry of Agriculture
wants to be a partner to do
so in Indonesia.”
Minister of Agriculture,Amran Sulaiman,and Minister of Industry,Saleh Husin,marked
the opening of the Forum with Franky Widjaja,Chairman & CEO,Golden Agri-Resorces,
Shinta Kamdani,President,IBCSD and Tony Gourlay,CEO,Global Initiatives.
Amran Sulaiman,
Minister of Agriculture, Republic of Indonesia
Saleh Husin, Minister of Industry,
Republic of Indonesia

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AND RECOMMENDATIONS
E V E N T S U M M A RY
In the next 40 years, the world will need to produce as much food as it has in the past
8,000 years. This formidable task will require all regions of the world to achieve higher
production levels. ASEAN, with over 600 million people, is a top global food supplier
and consumer. The region holds significant potential to dramatically increase its food
production quantities to meet heightened demand, but this must be done sustainably to
protect the ever more fragile environment. In doing so, farmer livelihood has to improve
as only half of all farmers in the world today make enough money to feed their own
families. Moreover, improving farmer livelihood is necessary to attract a new generation
of producers. To tackle these challenges, smallholder farmers, especially women, need
more access to finance,technology,expertise,and other resources that can elevate them
out of the low input low output paradigm. The 3rd Responsible Business Forum on Food
and Agriculture convened more than 400 leaders from ASEAN governments, international
businesses,financial institutions,agricultural associations,and civil society organizations,
together with farmers, to confront the challenges of producing more food in a sustainable
manner to improve the environment and rural communities.
The Forum held expert-facilitated working groups and provided smallholder farmers an
opportunity to share the greatest challenges they face in the field with the members
of each group. This guided the drafting of actionable recommendations for increasing
the supply of sustainably produced coffee, corn, dairy, palm oil, rice and sugar. Eight
discussion panels containing renowned international authorities covered topics including
ASEAN food policy alignment, empowering women in agriculture, and how agriculture can
mitigate climate change. The diverse backgrounds of the panelists provided new insights
and perspectives for all attendees and were complemented by audience members asking
thought provoking questions.
Organised by Global Initiatives in collaboration with KADIN Indonesia and the Indonesia
Business Council for Sustainable Development (IBCSD), this two-day multi-stakeholder
forum took place at a crucial time as the world looks for ways to transform traditional
ideologies and embrace the recently completed UN Sustainable Development Goals.

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BUSINESS 167
NGO 114
GOVERNMENT 42
ACADEMIA 49
MEDIA 53
425A T T E N D E D
ATTENDEES REPRESENTED THE FOLLOWING SECTORS:
A U D I E N C E P R O F I L E

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S P E A K E R H I G H L I G H T S
In his welcome address speech,Amran Sulaiman,Indonesia’s Minister of Agriculture,called
for scaling up partnerships between government and the private sector to improve the
livelihoods of smallholder farmers and protect the environment. Saleh Husin, Indonesia’s
Minister of Industry, discussed the importance of green initiatives and how Indonesia has
gone so far to encourage it through recently adopted laws.
U Tin Htut, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation, Myanmar, AKP
Mochtan, Deputy Secretary General for Community and Corporate Affairs, ASEAN, Shinta
Widjaja Kamdani, President, IBCSD, Rashid Qureshi, President Director & CEO, Nestle
Indonesia,Melanie Rutten-Sülz,CEO,Global Coffee Platform, and many others were among
the international and national leaders and experts gathered to discuss the challenges
and opportunities of increasing the supply of sustainably grown agricultural commodities
while improving the livelihood of smallholder farmers.
Jason Clay, Senior Vice President Markets, WWF-US defined the challenges surrounding
food production at a macro level,“By 2050,70% of the world population will live in cities -
more than the current global population – every farmer will need to feed more people than
they do today, yet half of farmers right now don’t earn enough to feed their own families.
We must create better livelihoods for farmers balancing increased global food demand
with an ever more fragile environment.”
Shinta Kamdani’s welcome address underscored the utility of the forum stating, “We
encourage companies to be involved in this forum as it provides best practices of
sustainable business on technology improvement, community involvement, policy
framework, research contribution, and partnership engagement on food and agriculture
that we can learn together.”

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AND RECOMMENDATIONS
S P E A K E R H I G H L I G H T S
"What we need is a strong and cohesive
agriculture policy and active citizenship."
U Tin Htut, Permanent Secretary, Ministry
of Agriculture and Irrigation, Myanmar
"How many people want their kids to be
farmers today. And why is it not a viable
future option"
Eduardo Tugendhat, Director of Thought
Leadership Palladium
"Poverty is the source of unsustainability"
Bayu Krisnamurthi, Director, Palm Oil
Estate Fund, and Chairman of The
Indonesian Society of Agricultural
Economics
"Regulation has to be more predictable and
transparent.Then we can meet that bar."
Andrew McConville Head of Corporate
Affairs, Syngenta Asia Pacific
"Food security is key to nutrition but
it's not enough. We need to talk about
nutrition security."
Le Thi Hop, Chairwoman, Vietnam Nutrition
Association
"The farmers should always be involved in
policy discussions."
Rashid Qureshi, President Director & Chief
Executive Officer, Nestle Indonesia
"In ASEAN we have 100 million
smallholder farmers. Half of them are
women."
Alison Eskesen, Director, Knowledge and
Innovation, GrowAsia
"Philip Morris International is strongly
committed to improve labor practices on
approximately 450,000 farmers".
Miguel Coleta, Sustainability Officer, Philip
Morris International
“Feeding a growing world with fewer
resources calls for the best and most
innovative inputs modern agriculture can
provide.”
Siang Hee Tan, Executive Director,
CropLife Asia
"Governments can set targets, but it's not
going to work unless we see it from the
farmers' point of view."
Fleur Davies, Minister-Counsellor,
Governance and Human Development,
Australian Embassy, Indonesia

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S P E A K E R H I G H L I G H T S
"Seed tech is scale neutral and adoption
can reach 80%. If benefits are visible,
farmers will pick up on it"
Harvey Glick, Asia Regional Director,
Regulatory Policy and Scientific Affairs,
Monsanto
"50-60 million people in Indonesia rely on
forestry for their livelihoods"
Lucita Jasmin, Director for Sustainability
and External Affairs, APRIL Group
"Strong partnerships are vital to
sustaining, accelerating & scaling
development programmes"
Sybren Attema, Regional Manager, Dairy
Development, FrieslandCampina
“Supporting innovation for farmers &
SMEs urgently needs joined up thinking &
collective action”
Andrew Hall, Group Leader, CSIRO
Australia
"Women work 2/3 of the world’s working
hours. Yet they earn 10% of the world’s
income."
Jenny Costelloe, Director of Partnerships,
GrowAsia
"Efficiency gains & intensification are
the core elements of sustainability in
agriculture & food security"
Marco Ferroni, Executive Director,
Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable
Agriculture
"If we can increase the smallholders
production, there will be less demand for
land conversion."
Agus Purnomo, Managing Director for
Sustainability & Strategic Stakeholders
Engagement, Golden Agri-Resources
"In the next 40 years, we will need to
produce as much food as we did in the
last 8,000 years"
Jason Clay, Senior Vice President, Markets
and Executive Director, The Markets
Institute, WWF-US
"If people cannot make a living, we may
have to call for a different solution"
Simon-Thorsten Wiebusch, Country
Group Head, Crop Science Division, Bayer
Southeast Asia
"We must encourage partnerships
between agribusiness & smallholders to
develop new business models."
Melanie Rutten-Sülz, Chief Executive
Officer, Global Coffee Platform

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OUTCOME STATEMENTS
AND RECOMMENDATIONS
F O O D , FA R M , F O R E S T, C O M M U N I T Y
High-level working groups from six commodity sectors produced actionable
recommendations for decision makers, focusing on how to increase the global supply of
sustainably-produced coffee,corn,dairy,palm oil,rice and sugar.Themes emerged in both
the identified challenges and proposed solutions.
Overarching challenges identified across the six commodities:
• Environmental issues: ASEAN countries in particular are strongly impacted by climate
change, natural hazards, water scarcity, and disease.
• Production: This must be increased to meet the needs of a growing global population,
using the same amount of land and resources, or less.
• Farming practices: In many cases, unsustainable farming practices are leading to
environmental pollution, soil degradation and resource loss.
• Farmer capacity building: There remains a lack of adequate access to the financial
tools,training and technology required for sustainable practices,especially for women.
• Markets and policy: Commodity price volatility and unfair pricing structures in value
chains do not support sustainable farming models.
• Infrastructure: There is much room for improvement in agricultural value chains,
including in irrigation, transportation and storage.
• Labour: Attraction and retention of labour in agriculture is difficult, particularly with
regards to young people.

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AND RECOMMENDATIONS
F O O D , FA R M , F O R E S T, C O M M U N I T Y
Overarching recommendations identified across the six commodities:
• Government must have a clear role that is consistent across ASEAN,its primary purpose
is to:
— Enforce laws, especially pertaining to deforestation;
— Incentivize food production through subsidies that promote sustainable growing
practices;
— Eliminate trade barriers and tariffs on commodities throughout the region;
— Reduce price volatility of commodities by incentivizing innovative methods that
can smooth supply and demand fluctuations, (e.g. tax breaks for companies that
build storage facilities);
— Provide safety nets, such as insurance, for growers; and,
— Develop and enforce health and safety standards to ensure product quality and
consumer safety.
• Develop new business models that provide more access to finance and bring together
the private sector with farmers to:
— Create, for example, joint ventures, employee stock ownership plans, etc. that make
farmers partners in the supply chain;
— Encourage the use of more long term contracts; and,
— Through the increased access to finance and capital enable farmers to scale-up the
size of their farms and improve yields.
• Focus on agricultural productivity and product quality through improved access to
education and farm inputs, especially for women:
— Improve technical assistance and educational platforms for producers to learn best
practices;
— Encourage the development of more local farmer cooperatives/associations
to disseminate educational information on best practices and new technological
advances;
— Leverage cooperatives as a means to improve mechanisation,to reduce labour costs
and achieve economies of scale; and,
— Enable the reach of technical assistance to go further by increasing the number of
technical service providers able to reach individual farmers.
• Enhance research and development in the region by both the public and private sector:
— Incentivize the private sector to research new seed genetics, especially by
protecting intellectual property;
— Develop new partnerships between research institutes (e.g. academia, government
research agencies) and the private sector to improve seed genetics and get
improved varieties to the farmers; and,
— Research should consider climate change and technological advances should strive
to mitigate/adapt to it.

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Chair:
Melanie Rutten-Sülz, Chief Executive
Officer, Global Coffee Platform
Smallholder farmer conversation
Farmer:
Aler Hutabarat and Suparman
(from Lampung)
Moderator:
Junda Aulia, Senior Agronomist Crop,
Nestle Indonesia
Panel discussion I
Veronica Herlina, Executive Director,
Indonesian Coffee Sector Platform
Pacita Juan, Co-Chair,
Philippine Coffee Board
Panel discussion II
Imran Nasrullah, Chief Executive Officer,
Louis Dreyfus Company, Indonesia
Fitrian Ardiansyah, Indonesia Country
Director, IDH-The Sustainable Trade
Initiative
C O F F E E R E C O M M E N DAT I O N S
• Strengthen existing public-private partnership platforms (such as the Sustainable
Coffee Platform of Indonesia), through communication and relationship building at a
national level, to define shared strategy, align actions on critical issues, and create an
enabling environment for change.
• Scale and improve capacity building of smallholder coffee growers (through local
farmer associations, partnerships with governments, NGOs and others), using local
change agents to focus on basic sustainable farming practices (including agro-
forestry), financial literacy and encouraging access for women and youth.
• Encourage partnerships between agribusiness and smallholders to develop new
business models for tailored and targeted access to affordable agricultural inputs,
especially fertilizer, so farmers can escape the low-input, low-output paradigm.
• Support farmer organisations to improve value-added services and increase
smallholder revenue, through improved product quality (green coffee processing
facilities, especially drying and sorting equipment), market differentiation and
information (including financial tools and text-messaging service).

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Chair:
Subash Dasgupta, Senior Plant
Production Officer, FAO Regional Office
Smallholder farmer conversation
Farmer:
Mariani and Suwardi
(from South Lampung)
Moderator: Irvan Kolonas,
Chief Executive Officer, Vasham
Panel discussion I
Nguyen Van Tuat, Vice Chairman,
Vietnam Academy of Agricultural
Sciences, Vietnam
Edwin Paraluman, Chair,
Philippine Farmers Advisory Board
Hardeep Grewal, Head APAC Corn,
Syngenta
Panel discussion II
Ketut Putra, Vice President,
Conservation International, Indonesia
Ganesh Satyagraha Pamugar,
Indonesia Country Lead, Monsanto
Irvan Kolonas, Chief Executive Officer,
Vasham
Winarno Tohir, Chairman, National
Outstanding Farmer Association,
Indonesia
C O R N R E C O M M E N DAT I O N S
• Public-private partnerships must accelerate the development and deployment of
high-yielding climate-resilient corn seeds and facilitate its access.
• Improve farmer education through extension staff to encourage sustainable and
added-value production, through scaling up innovations, such as: information
communication technology (ICT) tools, sustainable corn production intensification
(SCPI), and conservation and climate-smart agriculture practices - with special focus
on youth and women.
• ASEAN governments should create policies incentivizing the private sector that
help smallholders improve sustainable production and productivity of corn (through
availability of agricultural inputs), access to drying and storage facilities, and
investment in R&D (especially through protecting IP rights).
• Increase opportunities for smallholders along the suppy chain, in order for them to
develop more value-added products to enhance their livelihoods.

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OUTCOME STATEMENTS
AND RECOMMENDATIONS
DA I RY R E C O M M E N DAT I O N S
• Public–Private partnerships between governments,private sector,research institutes,
and NGOs (led by the private sector) must encourage investment in technical support
and professionalization in the dairy industry, including scaling up of farms.
• Empowerment of farmers (especially women): strong and proud farmers as role
models to make dairy more attractive to young people.
• Improve milk quality through Initiatives on farmer education,technology supply,better
pricing, and quality testing (endorsed by farmers, private sector and governments).
• New financial models for farmers to have access to capital to improve and intensify
dairy production (government should reduce risk for banks).
• Improve consistent feed availability through regional mapping of feed potentials to
reduce supply constraints.
Chair:
Gert van der Bijl, International Programme
Coordinator, Livestock, Solidaridad
Smallholder farmer conversation
Farmer:
Enang Sulaeman (from West Java)
Moderator:
Bastian Saputra, Executive Director,
Pupuk (The Association for Advancement
of Small Business)
Panel discussion I
Emma Parsons, General Manager,
Responsible Dairying, Fonterra
Sybren Attema, Regional Manager,
Dairy Development, FrieslandCampina
Wisman Djaja, Director, Sustainable
Agriculture Development & Procurement,
Nestle Indonesia
Panel discussion II
Bruno Kistner, Commercial Director Asia
Pacific, Glanbia Nutritionals
Vinod Ahuja, Livestock Policy Officer,
FAO Regional office for Asia & the Pacific

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AND RECOMMENDATIONS
PA L M O I L R E C O M M E N DAT I O N S
• Government should improve the consistency of laws across jurisdictions, and help
organize local farmer associations to share information on legal issues, better
agriculture practices, and the government’s role in enforcing these practices.
• Build financial / extension services to provide capital and best growing practices to
smallholders. Outreach costs to be shared across the supply chain.
• Government and private sector to provide ultra-transparency in monitoring of fires
and deforestation, via publicly available information of maps, to credibly distance the
industry from haze allegations.
• Align the palm oil industry as a leader championing the Sustainable Development Goals.
• Activate government,private sector,civil society and local communities to design and
implement long-term plans to adapt to climate change.
• Government should make specific rules for independent smallholders as these are
distinct from plasma smallholders.
Chair:
Darrel Webber,
Chief Executive Officer, Roundtable on
Sustainable Palm Oil
Smallholder farmer conversation
Farmer: Bambang Gianto
(from South Sumatra)
Moderator: Desi Kusama, Senior Program
Manager, Palm Oil, IDH Sustainable Trade
Panel discussion I
John Hartmann, Chief Executive Officer,
Cargill Tropical Palm Holdings
Fadhil Hasan, Executive Director,
Indonesian Palm Oil Association
Panel discussion II
Götz Martin, Head of Sustainability
Implementation, Golden Agri-Resources
Hans Harmen Smit, Commodity
Coordinator Palm Oil, SNV

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AND RECOMMENDATIONS
R I C E R E C O M M E N DAT I O N S
• ASEAN+3 must enact policy, programs and funds to smooth rice price volatility and
manage the impacts of natural resource degradation and climate change.
• Public R&D is needed to achieve high-yielding,climate-smart rice varieties at a lower-
cost and create innovative sustainable agricultural practices.
• Scale is attained through widespread knowledge extension systems enabled by
public-private partnerships.
• Safety nets, such as crop insurance and other social protection measures,are needed
to enable subsistence rice farmers to compete and thrive.
• ASEAN+3 must continue to reduce restrictions on trade, consider a futures market,
and share much more rice production and market data.
Chair:
Bruce Tolentino, Deputy Director General,
International Rice Research Institute
Smallholder farmer conversation
Farmer:
Bapak M Hosin (from East Java)
Moderator:
Bustanul Arifin, Professor of Agricultural
Economics, University of Lampung
(UNILA)
Panel discussion I
Nguyen Do Anh Tuan, Director, Institute
for Policy and Strategy for Agriculture and
Rural Development, Vietnam
Mahesh Girdhar, Global Crop Lead,
Rice,Bayer CropScience
I Ketut Kariyasa, Head of Program and
Evaluation Division,Ministry of Agriculture,
republic of indonesia
Panel discussion II
Matthias Bickel, Project Director,
ASEAN Sustainable Agrifood Systems, GIZ
Yannick Foing, Regional Manager,
Asia Pacific,Nutrition Improvement Program,
DSM
Meas Pyseth, Director, Department of
International Cooperation, Ministry
of Agriculture, Forest and Fisheries,
Cambodia

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AND RECOMMENDATIONS
S U G A R R E C O M M E N DAT I O N S
• Support technical improvements for farmers (timely access to fertilizer, irrigation
infrastructure, access to finance, better quality of seed cane) with innovative
developments to prepare for future challenges (e.g. climate change, attract high
quality workforce).
• Empower and strengthen the organisation of local farmer associations to increase
collaboration and knowledge sharing.
• Strive for a strong and mutually beneficial relationship between farmers and millers,
to gain efficiencies in sugar production at mill and farm level (e.g. continuous and
organised supply of cane to mills).
• Encourage governments to work with sector actors to develop a coherent regulatory
framework that promotes a stepwise approach to support and improve domestic
production, leading to increased competitiveness.
• Build on existing cross-regional collaboration initiatives, such as the ASEAN Alliance
for Sugarcane (launching July 2016) and encourage transparent, multi-stakeholder
participation (including farmer and mill associations, buyers, financial institutions and
support organisations).
Chair:
Nicolas Viart, Head of Standards and
Innovation, Bonsucro
Smallholder farmer conversation
Farmer representative:
Arum Sabil, Chairman, Indonesia
Sugarcane Farmer Association
Moderator:
Agung Primanto Murdanoto,
Secretary General,
Indonesian Sugar Association
Panel discussion I
Agung Primanto Murdanoto,
Secretary General,
Indonesian Sugar Association
Adhi Lukman, Chairman, Indonesian
Food & Beverages Industry Association
(GAPMMI)
Mariam Thomas, Program Lead, Products
& Markets, Fairtrade Network
Panel discussion II
Rangsit Hiangrat, Director General,
Thai Sugar Millers Corporation
Natasha Schwarzbach, Industry expert on
sustainable supply chains
Ian Hope-Johnstone, Senior Director
Sustainable Agriculture, Pepsico

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AND RECOMMENDATIONS
S U M M A RY
Participants of the Responsible Business Forum on Food and Agriculture in Jakarta agreed
that there is a growing global demand for more,higher value and safer edible commodities.
There was also a recognition of the growing demands of consumers for a sustainable and
transparent supply chain.
ASEAN countries have a competitive advantage in the prevalence of abundant arable land
and a climate suitable for multiple growing seasons and commodity types. Unfortunately,
much of the region’s agriculture is subject to the variability of climatic conditions, which
are becoming more severe and unpredictable, and vulnerable low income farmers.
The food and agriculture sector in the ASEAN region is now facing a challenge that is
unprecedented in its complexity and scale, to increase production, whilst enhancing
nutritional value, improving farmer livelihoods and reducing environmental impacts.
The Forum agreed that this challenge also presents a great opportunity to develop a
resilient, competitive and sustainable agricultural industry for ASEAN.
The presence of smallholder farmers at the event provided an excellent perspective
of the challenges smallholders face in the field. Their input guided the working group
discussions that finalized recommendations for each commodity. Consistent across the
commodities was the need for the government and private sector to engage with farmers
to enable them to maximize yields,improve their livelihoods,and provide safety nets in the
event of natural disasters.Additionally,the need for innovative partnerships to be created
was evident.Although there are successful examples of PPPs and farmer co-operatives in
existence,speakers and participants of the Forum called for these to be scaled up through
targeted investment programmes.
There was also a call for cross-border alignment in regulatory and trade policies. With
such alignment, mutual gains for private sector innovation and farmer prosperity in the
region can be realized.
ASEAN agriculture has not reached the full potential it holds. It is in the early stages
of a transformation and much more effort is required. In establishing a framework for
equitable growth, participants noted that governments need to set appropriate policies
and incentives, enforce existing laws, and must work collaboratively with businesses and
NGOs to activate new tools and systems for a more competitive and sustainable future for
food and agriculture in ASEAN.

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