This study explores crop diversification opportunities to support independent smallholders in Berau for better long-term outcomes, outlining options to push Berau towards economic resilience and achieve its sustainability goals. It is, therefore, replicable across regencies in Indonesia, especially those with similar attributes as Berau. The key findings are as follows:
This study also formulates key recommendations for Berau’s government. These recommendations have the potential to be replicated across other regencies in Indonesia that have similar attributes, to encourage crop diversification and use finance as a lever to drive crop diversification by palm oil smallholders.
The Governments of Indonesia and Central Kalimantan have ambitious targets to both grow the palm oil sector and improve environmental quality by reducing deforestation, and smallholder farmers are an important part of the picture.