Smallholder Agribusiness Development Initiative (SADI)

SADI aims to improve rural sector productivity and growth in four Eastern provinces—Nusa Tenggara Timur, Nusa Tenggara Barat, South East Sulawesi and South Sulawesi. It will improve incomes and productivity for farmers and agribusiness in response to market opportunities, through a process that is underpinned by improved adaptive R&D capacity. SADI, a 10 year program with an initial funding commitment from the Australian government of $ 38 m for the July 2006-December 2009 period comprises three subprograms, each of which also build on existing activities in Indonesia:

•Enhanced smallholder production and marketing (implemented by the Kecamatan Development Program Secretariat of the Ministry of Home Affairs, supported by the World Bank)
•Strengthened private sector agribusiness and Small - Medium Enterprise development (implemented by the International Finance Corporation)
•Support for market-driven adaptive research (SMAR, implemented by ACIAR, through project offices in Makassar and Bogor)