Piet van Asten

Transforming agriculture to (re-)build, rather than exhaust, livelihoods and nature requires knowledge, resources and motivation from farmers. Piet focuses on innovating the sustainability of production systems at Olam Food Ingredients (ofi) and is based in Singapore.

In early 2017, he joined Olam to jointly develop, adapt and apply technologies, approaches and services that improve the productivity, profitability, and carbon footprint of Olam's coffee plantations as well as its (smallholder) supply landscape.

SME BlueImpact Asia: Financing Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises that Dominate the Blue Economy

This session presented SME BlueImpact Asia, a blended finance platform for SME Blue Economy projects, which was jointly developed by ADB with UNEP and UNDP. The session discussed the concept of this initiative and will draw lessons from the European experience with BlueInvest Europe. To ensure the success of the platform, it also gathered insights from various stakeholders on policy recommendations and implementation approaches both from the perspective of SMEs and investors.