Aim

The project chart an alternative path by demonstrating how the MBG program can become a driver of regenerative agriculture adoption. The project will design scalable regenerative farming archetypes tailored to degraded lands across Indonesia, align these models with MBG’s procurement system and work  to pilot these models. By shifting production away from intact forests and toward underutilized degraded land, the initiative aims to strengthen food security while simultaneously restoring ecosystems and supporting smallholder livelihoods.

Where

National level

Why

Indonesia faces the dual challenge of strengthening national food security while supporting a food production system that is sustainable, low-emission, and inclusive. The Free Nutritious Meal Program (MBG) presents a strategic opportunity to establish a food procurement model that not only improves nutrition outcomes but also empowers farmers and supports food system transformation through regenerative agriculture.

To support this, WRI Indonesia with Systemiq, is developing a regenerative agriculture-based supply chain model for the MBG program, including an economic feasibility assessment and the design of a pilot implementation. This initiative aims to ensure that food supplied to the MBG program can be produced through a model that is economically viable, climate-resilient, inclusive of smallholder farmers, and scalable for broader replication.

How

Key deliverables of this project are:

  1. A theoretical technoeconomic assessment into the feasibility of regenerative local sourcing for MBG, which considers farm- and kitchen- level economics and tests affordability
  2. High-level design of Regenerative School Meal Program Pilots to demonstrate feasibility at scale
     

Donor

Rockefeller Foundation

Partners

PT. Systemiq Lestari Indonesia, Koalisi Sistem Pangan Lestari/KSPL (part of Food and Land Use/FOLU Global Coalition)