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ACIAR - Indonesia
Agriculture/livestock consultation
February 2007
John Skerritt
Deputy Director
ACIAR
• ACIAR’s Mission: “To achieve more
productive and sustainable agricultural
systems, for the benefit of Developing
Countries and Australia, through
international agricultural research
partnerships”
• ACIAR does not carry out R & D itself
• Total projects value in Indonesia –
$9.6m in 2006/07, $11.8m in 2007/08
• ACIAR bilateral and IARC projects
• Australia-Indonesia Partnership funding of
$3.5-5.4 m (Aceh and SADI-SMAR)
• Plus short-course and scholarship training
Three consultation meetings aim to:
(agriculture/livestock, fisheries, forestry)
• determine a framework for
collaborative research for
development activities over the next
four year period
• drive ACIAR’s contribution to the
new country development strategy
that guides all Australian
development assistance activities
• finalise ACIAR Annual Operational
Plan for 2007-08
Overall Australia-Indonesia
development cooperation strategy
• The April 2006 White Paper ‘Australian Aid: promoting
growth and stability’ placed emphasis on:
• economic growth as being central to poverty reduction
• strengthening support for private sector-led rural and business
development
• development of lagging regions such as Eastern Indonesia
• Other emphases: fostering functioning and effective states,
investing in people and promoting regional stability and
cooperation
• Single “Whole of Government” strategy being produced
for cooperation with Indonesia by mid-2007
• investment in agriculture and rural development will
form only a few percent of the $ 400m per year program
Program focus
• Move from a set of individual projects to support a small
number of larger, integrated themes or subprograms
• This means that we cannot operate across all areas of
agriculture, forestry, fisheries and natural resource
management in Indonesia
• The identification of the themes for the ACIARIndonesia program is based on:
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Indonesia’s agricultural priorities
issues amenable to a practical solution through research
presence of systems for adoption of the research results
priority to Australia and availability of Australian expertise
availability of ACIAR staff and budget resources
Program issues for discussion
• Sub-sectoral emphasis (e.g. between horticulture, livestock,
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quarantine, product processing)
Balance between investment in collaborative R&D on
production, market development, policy and resource
management issues
Alignment of Australian and Indonesian interests
Opportunities for greater involvement of communities and
the private sector in the program
Complementarities with major Indonesian Government
programs and donor initiatives
How to improve the adoption of research results by
endusers (e.g. farmers, industry, policymakers)
Priorities for capacity building
Priority setting: top-down and bottom-up
Problems that R&D may help to solve
Shared
Indonesian
Australian
expertise
expertise and
expertise and
and
interest Problems amenable to research interest
interest
Geographical focus
alignment with the overall Australian aid program
• Program includes Nusa Tenggara Timur, Nusa Tenggara Barat,
South, Southeast and North Sulawesi
• Australian experience in working in similar environments
• Collaboration with R&D organisations and policymakers in Java
and Western Sumatra important in policy research, biosecurity
collaboration, horticulture and aquaculture
• Difficult for ACIAR to expand the geographic scope of the
program without a major contraction elsewhere
• In response to the 2004 tsunami, ACIAR commenced
some medium-term projects in Aceh
The way we work…
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Funding collaborative R&D –
between Indonesia and Australian
R&D organisations
Contracts developed/managed by
discipline specialists covering:
crops, livestock, fisheries, forestry,
agricultural economics, policy and
systems
Projects of 1-5 years duration
across six research themes
Outputs include: new agricultural
technologies, stronger institutional
and researcher capacity,
identification of policy options
Fostering collaborations
to improve project impact
• Between the research agencies in agriculture, forestry and
fisheries and the policy/implementation directorate–
generals in the same ministries
• With other Ministries such as the Ministry of Trade
• Between the central research institutes in Java and Sumatra
and eastern Indonesian adaptive research agencies and
planning authorities
• Greater involvement of private sector and NGOs
• Multidisciplinary Australian and Indonesian teams
Current strategy
ACIAR’s Indonesian Program has
a strong emphasis on R&D to
improve farmer and fisherfolk
livelihoods
• to improve production systems
and add value to Indonesian
agricultural (livestock, fisheries,
forestry and horticultural)
products
• develop market linkages through
greater emphasis on farming as
agribusinesses
Developing agribusiness:
a common objective
• It is proposed that the ACIAR program will maintain a
focus on high-value commodities
• for which there is strong export or domestic market demand
• that are identified as priorities by the GOI
• for which major constraints require addressing through research
• In addition to supporting research on production and
productivity enhancement, ACIAR projects will also
address related pest, disease, postharvest and market
development issues.
Indonesia – six program themes
1. Policy options for Indonesian
agribusiness
2. Pest and disease management
3.Productive smallholder aquaculture
Cocoa
improvement,
disease and pest
management
Better management of
pests and diseases –
reduced chemical use
Supply chain
management
for bananas
4. Sustainable utilisation and
management of fisheries and
forestry resources
5. Profitable agribusiness
systems for Eastern Indonesia
6. Technical cooperation to underpin
post-Tsunami rehabilitation of
agriculture and fisheries
Technical cooperation
to underpin postTsunami rehabilitation
Redevelopment of vegetable
production, Pidie
Agribusiness policy research
• Agricultural trade policy research (commodity- or
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industry-specific studies) looking at constraints to
agribusiness development
Domestic rural development policy research, including
analysis of structural adjustment following trade
liberalisation, cooperative arrangements and role of social
capital in successful rural institutions.
Research on institutional adjustments that will improve
links between farmers and markets, including market
development research
Assessing impacts of decentralisation
Biosecurity, plant and animal health
• Quarantine cooperation increasingly important for both
Indonesia and Australia:
• information on pest, disease and weed problems, and how to
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minimise their numbers and damage
improved diagnostic and taxonomic ability
information on the habits of target species to underpin control and
management
disinfestation technologies
preventative animal health control
• Pest and disease management for improved
productivity and product quality
Crops and Natural Resources
• Australia has limited expertise in breeding and agronomy of
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many tropical field crops such as rice, maize and soybean
Thus we have focussed our involvement to horticulture and
specialised areas within plantation crops where individual
Australian groups have skills (e.g. in crop protection or
processing) to address Indonesian needs
A related focus is optimising crop–livestock systems in
Eastern Indonesia
Water management in the drier areas of Eastern Indonesia
will be a high priority in improving agricultural incomes
But most NRM work will be integrated within
interdisciplinary projects
Animal production and health
• In livestock production, the main focus is ruminant nutrition
and husbandry (growth, fertility), particularly of Bali cattle in
eastern Indonesia
• Less emphasis on genetic improvement, due to long
timeframes for development of stock with superior traits
• Animal health projects focus on:
• highly-infectious viral agents – surveillance systems and
responses, including effective use of vaccines
• regulatory and policy reform to reduce impediments to effective
disease control
• endemic livestock diseases - if there are major production
losses affecting incomes, and a project impact pathway
• targeted research to reduce the threat of HPAI
Capacity development priorities
also for review and discussion at this meeting
• Investment in institutional development in Eastern Indonesia
• Training for researchers/managers involved in ACIAR projects
• Up to 35 places for postgraduate training in Australia are
available for Indonesians at any one time
• Consultations during 2006 included requests for the following
short courses to be provided by ACIAR:
• Research Management training
• Commercialisation of research results
• Integrating social and economic methods for biophysical
agricultural researchers
• Fostering agricultural research-extension linkages
• Information and Communication Technology
• Scientific Writing
Smallholder agribusiness development
initiative
Four provinces (NTB, NTT, S and SE Sulawesi)
An integrated 10 year program:
1. Enhanced smallholder production and marketing
(implemented by the KDP Secretariat/ World Bank)
2. Strengthened private sector agribusiness and Small Medium Enterprise development
(implemented by International Finance Corporation)
3. Support for market-driven adaptive research
(implemented by ACIAR)
Smallholder Agribusiness
Development Initiative Subprogram 3
Support for Market-driven Adaptive Research
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Adaptive Research and Development
• market chain and institutional assessments and project funding
• initial projects identified in workshops (Nov 06-Jan 07)
Improved Knowledge Transfer (extension) Processes
• assess current research-extension linkages and methods
• develop improved linkages and extension methods
• utilisation in “pilot extension” trials
Institutional Development
• assist with R&D policies and procedures
• improved human resources and physical resources
Increasing project impact
Some lessons learnt by ACIAR
• Collaboration strongest if the topic is a high priority of both
Indonesian and Australian partners
Engage the ‘right’ technical people
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• Involvement of extension organisations and identification of
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dissemination pathways should be included from project start
Involvement of the private sector and NGOs has been
successful in other countries
• Technology-focussed research projects often also need to
address cross-cutting issues, including:
• lack of integration between production and marketing
• poor access and use of technical and market information
• policy and regulatory constraints
Australia is a major partner in projects
Australian benefits of involvement
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Direct benefits to Australian
agricultural productivity
Market information – openly
obtained
Development of personal
networks that are important in
trade and resource comanagement (fisheries)
Staff development - igniting
leadership skills, thinking more
broadly across disciplines
Understanding the policy
environment in the region