Working Group - Cocoa

Context:

Cocoa is Indonesia primary export commodity. Productivity of cocoa plants in Indonesia have declined by 50% in the past five years. Smallholder cocoa plants are suffering as a result of declining soil fertility due to misapplication of urea fertilizer.

Activities:

• Collaborating with the Ministry of Agriculture to develop high-quality seeds.
• Delivering professional farmer packages, which include agri-inputs, planting material, and knowledge.
• Improving access to savings, loans, other financial services, as well as financial literacy trainings.
• Increasing awareness of environmental issues in the cocoa sector by educating and training farmers in environmentally friendly practices.
• Building training programs to improve the communities’ access to nutrition and other basic services.
• Promoting the inclusivity of marginalized groups like women and youths.
• Scaling CocoaTrace, a cloud-based software developed by Koltiva to enable the industry to improve traceability across the cocoa value chain.

 

Impact:

• 153,406 farmers participating.
• Trained 1,411 government extension officers.
• 69,936 households have been trained on financial literacy.
• 43% increase in productivity.
• 66% increase in income from baseline.
• 33% decrease in GHG emissions

 

Member:

Leader: Mars Symbioscience Indonesia

• PT Mars Symbioscience Indonesia.
• PT Cargill Indonesia
• Cocoa Sustainability Partnership.
• PT Koltiva.
• Mercy Corps Indonesia.
• PT Pupuk Indonesia (Persero).
• Save The Children.
• CROWDE.
• Yayasan IRTI.