SPVO – A fair price for smallholder farmers to reduce the living income gap in Indonesia

About this project

The project 'A fair price for smallholder farmers to reduce the living income gap in Indonesia' aims at supporting fair pricing of Roundtable on Sustainable Palm (RSPO) certified palm oil fresh fruit bunches (FFBs) for smallholder farmers in north Sumatra and Southeast (SE) Sulawesi, Indonesia. Fair pricing is one of many drivers to support reducing the living income gap. The project pays special attention to women and youth to respond to inequalities faced due to age and/or gender. The project will work along the palm oil value chain: with farmer cooperatives, middlemen, and mills in Indonesia, with international retailer in the Netherlands, AS Watson Benelux, and towards lobbying the RSPO. Together, the consortium will learn where the problems exist and how everyone can be part of the solution to shift value and power closer to smallholder farmers and their communities. As this project is also designed to be a systems change project, there are different levels of impact envisioned. At the grassroots level, the project partners aim for women, men, and youth and smallholder farmers to be empowered with data and knowledge about their economic rights and ways to close the living income gap. At the regency or provincial level, the ambition is for local authorities to institute a higher farmgate price for FFBs so that it becomes institutionalised. At the same time, the ambition at the Dutch level is for AS Watson Benelux to learn where unfair pricing exists in their palm oil cha…

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Netherlands Enterprise Agency · Government

Countries

Indonesia

Sectors

Human rightsFood crop production

Focus

Trade development · Also contributes

Funded by

Netherlands Enterprise Agency

Implemented by

Koperasi Produsen Oheo Laiwoi Utara, Koperasi Produsen Karya Desa Mandiri, Perkumpulan Serikat Petani Kelapa Sawit (PSPKS), Yayasan Penabulu, AS Watson (Health & Beauty Continental Europe) B.V., Oxfam Novib

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Netherlands Enterprise Agency

Published by Netherlands Enterprise Agency to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 28 Jul 2025 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: NL-KVK-27378529-SPVO25S013.

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