SWITCH-Asia Low Carbon Rice: Reducing Climate Impact of Rice Production in Indonesia

Key Outputs

Project key activities:

1.  Introduce SMEs (Rice Millers)  to sustainability concepts and benefits

2. Provide capacity building targeted toward the needs of each specific set of stakeholders

3. Provide technical tools necessary to help switch rice milling operation to more sustainable methods

4. Provide access to new markets and new finance mechanisms to encourage uptake of sustainable methods;

5. Coordinate all key stakeholders around a common sustainable approach

6. Baseline study to determine GHG emissions from rice production in 5 districts

7. Facilitate Policy dialogue to enable sustainable rice to be recognized and sold

8. Developing production policy and guidance on sustainable rice partnership model at district level

9. Strengthening the institutional capacity of stakeholders on sustainable rice at the district level

10. Developing standard, criteria and indicators for Indonesia Sustainable Rice platform

11. Build capacity of miller to improve quality and reduce loss

12. Facilitate rice millers to have access to new markets and new finance mechanisms to encourage uptake of sustainable methods

13. Develop sustainable rice business model for rice millers

Implementing Partners:

1. Preferred by Nature as the leading partner
2. Indonesia Food Sovereignty and People Coalition /Perkumpulan Koalisi Rakyat untuk Kedaulatan Pangan (KRKP)
3. Indonesia’s rice millers and rice traders association /Perkumpulan Penggilingan Padi dan Pengusaha Beras Indonesia (Perpadi)

Location: Two provinces, Central and East Java with selected five districts: Klaten, Boyolali, Sragen, Ngawi, Madiun