Job Posting: 05/Apr/2024Closure Date: 19/Apr/2024, 4:59:00 PMOrganizational Unit: FAINS - FAO Representation in Indonesia**Job Type**: Non-staff opportunitiesType of Requisition: PSA (Personal Services Agreement)Grade Level: N/APrimary Location: Indonesia-JakartaDuration: 25 working daysPost Number: N/A**IMPORTANT NOTICE: Please note that Closure Date and Time displayed above are based on date and time settings of your personal device**- FAO seeks gender, geographical and linguistic diversity in its staff and international consultants in order to best serve FAO _Members_ in all regions._- FAO is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality, background and culture- Qualified female applicants, qualified nationals of non-and under-represented Members and person with disabilities are encouraged to apply- Everyone who works for FAO is required to adhere to the highest standards of integrity and professional conduct, and to uphold FAO's values- FAO, as a Specialized Agency of the United Nations, has a zero-tolerance policy for conduct that is incompatible with its status, objectives and mandate, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination**Organizational Setting**Indonesia has a strong enabling environment for sustainable food systems/livestock production. Its successful multi-stakeholder National Food Systems Dialogue and its strategy provides a strong vision for food systems transformation. Indonesia's Master Plan for the Acceleration and Expansion of Indonesia Economic Development (2011-2025) highlights livestock as a priority sector. Indonesia's Agriculture Development Strategy (2015-2045) strongly emphasizes sustainability. The 2020-2024 National Medium-Term Development Plan provides renewed focus on improving food systems governance and genetic quality of livestock. Indonesia's Food Law number 18/2012 promotes Food Planning including carrying capacity of natural resources, technology, environmental sustainability, spatial planning, and national and regional development plans.In Indonesia, animal base protein (such as beef, buffalo meat, mutton as well as local poultry) is produced by small holder farmers (97%). In addition, labour involvement on livestock subsector was approximately 5.2 million people (or 14.6% compared to labour involved in the agriculture sector). Farmer groups are the smallest entities who deal with husbandry, keeping the animals; they are important parts of value chains. The MoA (DG of Livestock and Animal Health) has their offices at 416 regencies in 37 provinces, through which they mentor the farmer groups in terms of production, provide livestock facilities, small subsidiary, training, etc. The farmer groups number approximately 646,293, scattered in 74,961 villages from 7,094 sub-regencies. The average ownership of livestock varies, according to the location, which is 2-6 heads/farmer. However, those figures can increase according to their location. As livestock becomes a form of farmer's assets, employment, and livelihoods, in certain provinces, the average of livestock ownership can be around 40.The utilization of agricultural production waste in the region is urgently needed to meet the nutritional needs of livestock feed according to the livestock commodities being developed. This will reduce the cost of raising livestock. Financial support from the government can be in the form of grants or loans such as people's business loans from banks or the National Amil Zakat Agency, access to environment fund managed by Indonesian Environment Fund, attract investments through public-private-community partnership, and/or nucleus-plasma partnership mechanisms. This is a micro finance mechanism given to the farmer groups through authorized banks and under the supervision and endorsement of local livestock offices. Beside the government, several private sector actors are also involved in livestock production, and play roles as financial support, part of the value. The project will encourage to mainstream biodiversity conservation in sustainable development as stated in the Presidential Decree number 1 year 2023.The government of Indonesia is committed to systems resilience building and prevention, nutrient pollution reduction, reduction and reuse of food waste along the length of the food systems value chain. Indonesia's global commitments and contribution under UN conventions further illustrate this, including United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) commitments to reduce Green House Gas (GHG) emissions by up to 29% with national efforts and up to 41% with international support and the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (UNCBD) targets to sustainably manage land for agricultural, plantation and animal husbandry; reduce pollution; animal manures management for biogas; genetic resources conservation; and the restoration of degraded e
