Improving Cinnamomum Burmannii (Nees & T.

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Value Chains for Sustainable Farmer Livelihoods
Sidi Rana Menggala1, Patrick Van Damme1,2
1 Laboratory Tropical and Subtropical Agriculture and Ethnobotany, Department of Plant Production, FBW - Ghent University, Belgium & 2 Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic

Introduction Objective
• Cinnamomum burmannii is native plant from Indonesia. It is
found in West Sumatra in the region known as Kerinci, a • Study the constraints and bottle necking
regency of Jambi province (hence the name Koerintji) near in the value chain process of C.burmannii
the city of Padang. for farmers in Kerinci
• Indonesia is the world's largest producer of cinnamon, with
• Understand improving methods on
an 85% share of the global market.
Indonesia’s C. burmannii value chain for
• Cinnamon comes in quills which keep their flavor
greater farmer income
indefinitely and used mostly in dishes but also have medical
purposes • Undestand methods to adding value on
• Number employed in the sector: 70,000 people in Kerinci C. burmannii for farmers
depend directly on cinnamon business
• Main products: Cinnamon quills (Full tubes), Cinnamon
quilling's (broken tubes), Ground Cinnamon (Cinnamon
powder), Cinnamon leaf oil & Cinnamon bark oil

Methods Results Conclusion

The methodological approach are explorative • In a globalised world, value chains is inevitable and brings economic
quantitative and qualitative method designs. A survey Categories Constraints growth
will be use to collect information about livelihood Product and • Not rewarded fair price • However, value chains may have some impacts or externalities on a
framework and interviews with stakeholders. Market • Farmer are price-takers number of aspects
• No access to market (local and international) • Indonesia is an important trade partner (in particular for cinnamon),
Data Collections Technology & • No land ownership therefore important to have clear trade and sustainibility rules when
1. Literature review Production • No investment in transportation and accommodative trading cinnamon.
• Traditional harvesting method
2. Survey research
3. Data analyzing Human • Traditional harvesting and farming method
Resources • No regeneration of growers
• Cinnamon as mainly income source
Contact Information
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Finance & • No support from investment bodies Sidi Rana Menggala
access to • No support from local and state government Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Belgium
capital • Difficult access to loans/credit Coupure Links 653, Gent 9000, Belgium
Environment • Clear cutting & Product hygiene +3292646224
al Issues • No environmental certification Email: sidirana.menggalasusanto@ugent.be