Linking Independent Farmers for a Sustainable Business Model

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The Project will aim to develop viable business model for production of sustainable palm oil by independent smallholders in Indonesia by linking independent smallholder farmers to supply (certified sustainable palm oil) CSPO into higher value supply chains. Linking farmers to such markets will increase their incomes by (i) increasing direct purchases by palm oil companies of harvest outputs from farmers, thereby enabling farmers to sell their outputs at higher prices, due to premiums and/or the fact that purchasing directly can enable the companies to offer farmers a better price, and by (ii) increasing direct sales of inputs (i.e. seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, farm equipment, etc.) by companies to farmers, thereby enabling farmers to buy better inputs, to buy these inputs at better prices and to buy these inputs more regularly.