• April 22, 2020

COVID-19 Emergency Premium Funds Mobilized for Fair Trade Fisher Associations in Central Sulawesi, Maluku and North Maluku

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact small-scale tuna fishers in Indonesia. From the dramatic price drop of tuna to decreasing demands in Japan and the USA along with other associated factors have made it difficult for fishers to make the daily income required to meet their primary needs. In an attempt to mitigate the spread of…

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  • March 31, 2020

Welcoming A New Executive Director

At the start of her journey with MDPI in January 2015 as Fair Trade Manager, Yasmine Simbolon managed the implementation of Fair Trade Capture Fisheries Standard for small-scale handline tuna fishers in Eastern Indonesia. Jaz is no stranger to fisher groups who work together with MDPI and has since become one of the leaders in…

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  • July 16, 2019

PRESS RELEASE: INVEST Project for Women’s Economic Empowerment in Fisheries Supply Chains

BALI, July 11, 2019 – Under USAID’s INVEST initiative, MDPI has been awarded a project to develop and test an approach that incorporates FinTech solutions and women’s economic empowerment activities alongside the electronic catch documentation and traceability (eCDT) app, Trafiz. The main objectives of this project are to improve the role of women in small-scale…

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  • June 24, 2019

MDPI, Anova, and Harta Samudra Receive Award for Traceability Implementation

JAKARTA, June 18, 2019 – MDPI Foundation, Anova, and Harta Samudra collaborated with Bumble Bee Seafoods and the German-based company SAP logistics to successfully implement blockchain technology for strengthening traceability in supply chains sourcing from small-scale handline fisheries. This implementation is the first in Indonesia and the world for small-scale fisheries. Blane Olson, Director of…

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  • April 23, 2019

FAD Inventory with Tuna Handline Fishermen at Oeba PPI

FADs or Fish Aggregating Devices may be unfamiliar to some people. But, for tuna fishermen around Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara, the word rumpon or FADs is familiarly heard almost everyday. FADs are man-made floating objects, designed to encourage fish aggregation at the device and can be either floating or anchored. The materials used can vary,…

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