With a touch of French savoir-faire in Geographical Indications (GI), smallholders of the Indonesian Cooperative produce coffee for the world consumers: a 24-year journey

Starting in 2000, CIRAD created Indonesia’s first Geographical Indication (GI) thanks to supports from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with conferences, travels, a expatriate. Officialised in 2008, this coffee GI, known as the’ Kintamani - Bali’ GI, was extremely successful. So much so, that the Kintamani team was commissioned by the Indonesian government to create and manage the Coop-Community and Coop-Coffee, which have created 130 GIs of all types, and 48 coffee GIs. These 48-Indonesian coffee GIs together represent one third of the coffee GIs in the world. CIRAD has scientifically supported this team over the last 24 years, and continues to do so today. The latest common actions explore bio composts on one side, and agriculture digitalisation on the other (Matthieu Bufkens, Phd student at university Paris 7 and co-directed by CIRAD, explores how digitalisation of agriculture and blockchains affect GIs such as’ Kintamani - Bali’). Future works could also question if and how contract farming of smallholders can reinforce or endanger the sustainability of the production systems, and how to uplift smalholders sustainability through multiple cooperative services.