Transcript Development Activity Proposal

Agriculture R&D: Issues and
priorities
NGO Perspective
ACIAR-Indonesia Consultations
Jakarta, February 19-20, 2007
Agriculture Development
Policy
• Agriculture Development 2005-2009, vision:
Created a strong agriculture for food security,
increasing value added and competitiveness, and
farmers’ prosperity.
• Strong agriculture=sustainable growth
(knowledge, technology, market, efficiency &
productivity, quality, professional, engineering)
• Program focus:
– Improved Food Security
• Adequate food stock everywhere, easy to access, safe to
consume, affordable price.
– Agribusiness Development
• Economy productive activities.
• Expected results: improved up-stream, on-farm, downstream (agro-industry, support services); increased GDP
agric.; increased export.
– Improved Farmers’ prosperity=Income.
Agriculture R & D
• Mission:
– Technology innovation
– Increase efficiency and accelerate dissemination
– ……
• Objectives:
– Produce model of commodity–base agribusiness,
agro-ecosystem, and/or territory
– ….
NGO works
• Close linkages: INGO-local NGO, shared vision and
program strategies, focus on problem solving.
• Agriculture related programs: NRM, Sustainable
Agriculture/organic farming, Agro-forestry, Civil
Society/Peace Building, Access to market (RAeD).
• Trends: shifted from just production oriented to supply
and market chains (access to market).
• Main role: facilitating community/farmers, CB,
informal BDS.
• Coverage: micro level (villages, sub-district, territory),
meso (through networking)
ARD Issues
1. Effectiveness and efficiency of R&D
a) Is it applicable ? For who?
b) Problem solving or meeting curiosity?
c) High cost or low cost application the results? How
long to apply for problem solution?
d) The result given is package or participatory
approaches (flexible steps) ?
2. Choosing subject for R&D
a) Whose interests? Researchers or private
company, or farmers?
b) Is it SMART objective enough?
c) Methodology of doing R&D: laboratory or
field, single conclusion or PAR
3. Building relationship of related parties.
a) Cross/study visits (NGO/farmers, BPTP,
University, Balitbang, Dinas).
b) Workshop, training, expo.
4. Dissemination or Adoption
a) Target beneficiaries (farmers, private company)
b) How to disseminate: training, trial, researcher to
farmer or farmer to farmer?
Priorities
1. Approaches.
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Selection of subject for Research and Development:
problem solving orientation, link with beneficiary’
capacity.
Methodology has to be the most appropriate to give
positive impact for farmers: dem-plot or farm,
professional or community-based, conclusion or
participatory action research.
Strengthen collaboration: R&D, extension agencies,
NGO, farmers, private companies, etc.
2. Theme for R&D
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Combining territorial and sub-sector
(commodity) approaches for access to market
(Eastern Indonesia).
Commodity market driven research/development
(identify market potential first) for agribusiness
development.
Engaging farmers/NGO from the beginning of
R&D
3. Capacity Building
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Farmer is no more as production factor, but as
farm manager and counterpart for innovation
and dissemination.
Learning process should address to all parties
(farmers, NGO, researchers, private sector,
extension worker, etc).
Strengthen farmer association (second order of
CBO) for production and business purposes.
Good luck