Our Story | Tay Juhana Foundation

In different parts of

the world, people

have different

experiences with

food

While some people go to bed with empty stomachs in their nights, there are also people with overweight and obesity.

Over 2 billion people do not have regular access to food with 704 million live in hunger.

Meanwhile,

human population is growing.

The planet will have more population in 2050, with almost 10 billion people live on Earth.

With a growing population, we have growing demands to fulfill the

primary needs. One of the most essential is food.

We face the challenges to

produce food and to ensure

enough and stable access to

utilize the food for everyone.

POPULATION

ADDITIONAL FOOD PRODUCTION

Yet, food issues are

multidimensional. Our food and

agriculture system is

intertwined, which makes it

more complex.

Countless challenges make the most prominent actor, i.e. farmers, especially outside high income countries, experience injustice.

Our concern comes from the

fact that land, as one of the

most limited yet essential

resources to produce food, is

getting degraded and

limited.

The evolution of agriculture practice has put our lands into its limit to produce food. The fertile lands where we can grow food is decreasing

More arable lands are converted to nonagricultural purposes. Leading to worse competition between food, energy, and other provisions.

We have a different

idea:

To work with lands

that are often

forgotten, those

people deemed as

unproductive

In addressing the challenge for food security, we need to highlight not to give burden to the environment.

We have to think long-term about how our future generation can live.

The most common choices to increase food production are intensification and extensification.

Enter suboptimal

lands.

We have seen cases that we can unlock the potential of suboptimal lands for food production.

Therefore, we work

on the following

aspects to achieve

the end goals.

To ensure everyone can eat, we cannot focus only on the production.

We have to work hard to achieve the objective of the bigger picture and to progress more into sustainability.

First, we work on

where the food can

grow. Cultivation of

suboptimal lands

should be leveraged

for sufficient food

production.

Although it is often deemed as unsuitanble, there are strategies to support sustainable food crop production in suboptimal lands.

Our works focus on improving agriculture practice in the different types of suboptimal land.

Second, we work

on the off-field, on

how the food can

reach people.

After being harvested on fields, foods have to travel far away to reach the people. During the journey, many things can affect people's capability to access the food.

This involves the need to fix the food and agriculture system, step-by-step.

Healthy Supply Chain

Fair Food Pricing

Food Import Regulation

Farmers and Community Empowerment

Rural-Urban Development

Lastly, we work to

ensure that the

people can have the

access to utilize food

at all times. We are

not dealing only with

the current situation

but also the future.

We need to strengthen the food and agriculture systems so that we can keep on living. This mainly includes dealing with the core of the system, i.e. the human.

Diet Diversification

Adaptive and Resilient Food and Agriculture System

Good Governance

Youth in Agriculture

We need you to bring betterment to our world where everybody has the same right to eat.

Be a part of the solution to this challenge!

“

Always contribute to society If you cannot contribute to society, do not be a burden to society

”

Tay Juhana (1938-2016)

Kobexindo Tower – 2nd Floor, Jl. Pasir Putih Raya Blok No.E-5-D, Ancol, Pademangan, North Jakarta, Indonesia, 14430

Phone: (021) 6603926
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