IAAS Summit

"Responding to the challenges of a pandemic by continuing to work and innovating towards the realization of sustainable agriculture by increasing community empowerment"

This year, IAAS Summit was held online with the concept of an international webinar which was attended by around 500 participants from various countries. This event was held on October 28, 2020, online using the zoom and youtube platforms. The 2020 IAAS Summit presents the theme of ‚Community Empowerment through Sust[in[ble Agriculture‛ in terms of business prospects, and what solutions can be presented in the midst of a pandemic. IAAS Summit presented speakers from major agencies including Wayan Tambun as the National Program for FAO Indonesia, Gusniar Nurdin as UNDP Project Associate for the SDG Academy Indonesia, Helianti Hilman as Founder and Chief creative and community officer from JAVARA (PT. Kampung Kearifan Indonesia) and Deeng Sanyoto, Head of partnership and social impact from TaniHub.

There was a special welcome from IAAS Indonesia CoFounder, Ina Nasution. She conveyed how proud she was too young people who are interested in community empowerment and sustainable agriculture because the fearless breath of young people can be a catalyst to create sexy agriculture in world.

Then proceed with a presentation from Wayan Tambun. She conveyed about the state of food and agriculture during this pandemic, followed by important things to realize sustainable food availability and suggestions for surviving in a crisis, in which the contents are about how society, one of which is how community empowerment such as MSMEs can contribute to resilience. The next material was from Gusniar Nurdin, he conveyed the real situation of the influence of the pandemic in the achievement of SDGs around the world and the fact that so far the achievement of the SDGs in Indonesia, which in fact still has to try harder to make it happen, also explained what strategies can be built to respond to the pandemic situation. How can community empowerment increase the achievement of SDGs through sustainable agriculture, then how can sociopreneurs contribute to developing the country's economy.

A talk show session was also held with special speakers, Helianti Hilman and Deeng Sanyoto, moderated by Irvan Herviansyah. They raised many interesting topics, from their respective experiences, especially how can sustainable agriculture produce economically and how it can help people to fight during this pandemic. Helianti Hilman explained the beginnings of building JAVARA and its foundation. She also told that finding the breath of community empowerment was actually what was empowered by the community. Then, sometimes many people when they want to start empowering society forget or don't give the opportunity that

society has power, society is smarter and we need to position ourselves as equal to the society we want to empower. Deeng Sanyoto explains how TaniHub regulates agricultural supplies and delivers them to consumers. It is very necessary for this field to arrange the best distribution strategy, build education at the farmer level and the general public, as well as maintain the quality of agricultural products. On the other hand, it is very necessary to think about how to increase market demand, so that supply can increase, and not oversupply so that market prices do not fall.

The conclusion is that all contributions, especially in empowering communities and sustainable agriculture, really need collaboration and partnerships with many parties to expand knowledge and opportunities. Building and maintaining trust is also the key to sustainability and sustainability. Continue to innovate and be creative as a way to answer every challenge. The talk show session was closed with a question and answer session, which was very enthusiastically welcomed by the participants.

An agenda that is no less interesting is the partnership awarding which aims to appreciate the more than 330 partners who have collaborated and collaborated with IAAS Indonesia and IAAS LC in the past year, followed by the Village Concept Project (VCP) Documentary they have. by each LC to better introduce it to the international community. Watch the record of this event on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-W-6H8Kg-GM