scholarly journals The Degeneration of Farmers: A Critical Ethnographic Case Study in Sawarna Banten

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 102
Author(s):  
Riswanda ◽  
Abdul Hamid ◽  
Yeni Widyastuti

<p><em>A threat to the Indonesian strategic programs in Food Security and Food Sovereignty is the degeneration of famers. Self-sufficiency in food provision has long been Indonesian national strategic programs for years though the </em><em>ongoing </em><em>significant</em><em> lost in farm households could be a call for the Indonesian local governments to find out how and why regeration of farmers is vital in maintaining the self-sufficiency.</em><em> </em><em>This critical ethnographic case study argued for social economic aspects influencing degeration of farmers to arise namely aging community ought to anricipate with multi approaches solutions. The research aims to provide deep realistic insights to degeration of farmers in Sawarna village and is expected to contribute to intellectual discourse in food security strategic responses. </em><em></em></p>

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Fauzin Fauzin

The basic need that is needed by humans to fulfill their survival is food. Thus the basic needs in a country can be fulfilled by domestic products or foreign products which are commonly known as imports. Fulfilling this need for food is very important and strategic in order to maintain the sovereignty of the country, by not depending on food imports from developed countries. Law Number 18 of 2012 on Food, mandates the objectives of food administration, namely realizing food sovereignty, food self-sufficiency and food security. Therefore, it is necessary to increase the production and productivity of food commodities, especially strategic food in order to meet the needs of the community which are always increasing and directly proportional to the population. The method used is normative legal research.


2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 327-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viola Schreer ◽  
Martina Padmanabhan

AbstractThis paper contributes to the discourse on food policy, particularly in relation to organic farming in Indonesia. Organic farming was first adopted by non-state actors in Indonesia, by faith-based organisations and then by small farmer associations, while the state support for organic agriculture followed at a later date. The three groups, represented in this study by three case studies, adopt different positions with regard to the definition of organic agriculture and its relevance to food self-sufficiency, food security and food sovereignty. For Bina Sarana Bhakti Foundation (BSB), organic farming is both a spiritual worldview and a practical philosophy. For the Indonesian Peasant Union (SPI), organic agriculture foremost is a political tool to resist global capitalist agriculture. Despite their very different outlooks, both these two civil society organisations see organic agriculture as a post-materialist enterprise directed towards explicitly social-political goals. By contrast, the government’s engagement in organic agriculture, although laced with evocative phrases such as “back to nature”, is driven primarily by visions of developing a new niche market for Indonesian exports. The Indonesian State adopts a one-dimensional productivist definition that excludes different meanings and traditions of organic farming. The reduction of the meaning of ‘organic’ to ‘organically certified products’ excludes farmers who consider that they are practicing organic agriculture. We conclude that there is a strong case to be made that the State should relax its regulatory grip on the organic sector, to create room for sorely needed innovation and cooperation among the different actors involved.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 6-17
Author(s):  
Rider PANDURO-MELENDEZ ◽  

This document is based on a case study of small-scale peasant agriculture and in this case linked to a peasant woman who is a conservator of biodiversity; It was carried out in the district of Cartel, province of Rioja, department of San Martín, Upper Amazon of Peru. Open and semi-structured interviews were conducted and direct observations were made of the various activities that this peasant family, which exists on its family farms, with tours of each of its plots that it has on its plots, with the aim of recording on -site information regarding to the diversity that they collect, conserve, the uses and destinations that this diversity has, concentrating on the value of diversity that is oriented to the market and food security; Data from diversified production, production volumes, values to each of them and the destinations of production for food security were analyzed; confirming their resilience, adaptation and mitigation to the disorders of the contexts that currently appear. Keywords. Accompaniment, Peasant Woman, In situ, Food Security, Diversity and Local Markets


Author(s):  
Adi Nugraha ◽  
Mochamad S. Hestiawan ◽  
Dika Supyandi

ABSTRAKKedaulatan Pangan telah diadopsi sebagai pendekatan pembangunan pangan dan pertanian nasionalbersama dengan konsep kemandirian pangan dan ketahanan pangan. Namun, Program yangdiinisiasi pemerintah lebih dipengaruhi oleh paradigma ketahanan pangan dan kemandirian panganyang lebih rentan terhadap rezim korporasi pangan. Kedaulatan pangan perlu lebih jauhdidiseminasikan sebagai alternatif terhadap rezim korporasi pangan. Studi ini merupakan studikualitatif deskriptif yang menggunakan pendekatan etnografis dalam pengambilan informasi. Kajianterhadap Persepsi terhadap operasionalisasi konsep kedaulatan pangan di tingkat petani dapatdiungkap secara lebih detail salah satunya dengan teori Hegemoni Gramsci, analisa regim pangan,dan teori multi kedaulatan. Hasil kajian menunjukkan bahwa respon petani terhadap kedaulatanpangan dan ketahanan pangan cenderung samar dan menunjukkan keterkaitan yang sejajar non-komplementer. Kedaulatan dapat bekerja baik dalam kondisi yang menghargai adanya keberagamansumber kedaulatan. Kedaulatan pangan memiliki kecenderungan untuk dapat menguatkankeberagaman konteks, budaya, dan pilihan cara produksi sebagai upaya nyata untuk mengurangidampak dominasi regim pangan korporasi terhadap upaya negara dan petani menjamin terpenuhinyahak rakyat atas pangan.Kata kunci: kedaulatan pangan, ketahanan pangan, rezim korporasi pangan, gerakan petaniABSTRACTFood sovereignty has been officially adopted as national food and agriculture developmentapproach along with food self sufficiency and food security. However, state led program wereheavily influence by food security paradigm and food self-sufficiency which more vulnerable topredatory character of corporate food regime. The food sovereignty discourse must be disseminatedfurther as alternative to corporate food regime. The discourse of food sovereignty was put into theaction by NGO and local groups which framed as local food movement initiative. The local foodmovement and the phenomena surrounding its rise needs to be ethnographically scrutinized.Gramsci's theory of hegemony, food regime analysis, relational scale and multiple sovereigntyelucidate the perception of food sovereignty value concept its relation and contestation among smallscale in the Flores Timur. Results shows that in small scale farmer perceived food sovereignty andfood security are interrelated because the persistence penetration of neoliberal economy. Foodsovereignty should be articulated and adapted for different contexts without losing its ground. Foodsovereignty works best with multiple recognitions of sovereignty. Food sovereignty were embraceand strengthen the diversity of contexts, cultures and pathways in order to slow down the furtherdomination of the corporate food regime.Keywords: food sovereignty, food security, corporate food regime, farmer’s movement


2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 95 ◽  
Author(s):  
NFN Syahyuti ◽  
NFN Sunarsih ◽  
Sri Wahyuni ◽  
Wahyuning Kusuma Sejati ◽  
Miftahul Azis

<p><strong>English</strong><br />The concept of food sovereignty officially becomes an objective and an approach in national food development such as depicted in Law No. 18/2012 on Food along with food self-sufficiency and food security. However, up to now formulation and understanding of food sovereignty is various and unclear. This article aims to review the concept of food sovereignty at international and national levels. Food sovereignty is a strategy to improve food security as the ultimate goal of food development because the concept is in fact consistent and complementary. Food sovereignty is related with farmers' rights and access to the entire agricultural resources including land, water, production factors, technology, and marketing as well as on consumption. This condition is measurable at various levels at individual, household, community, regional, and national levels.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Indonesian</strong><br />Konsep kedaulatan pangan secara resmi telah menjadi tujuan dan juga pendekatan dalam pembangunan pangan nasional, sebagaimana tercantum dalam UU No. 18 Tahun 2012 tentang Pangan, bersama-sama dengan kemandirian pangan dan ketahanan pangan. Namun demikian, sampai saat ini perumusan dan pemahaman tentang kedaulatan pangan masih beragam dan kurang jelas. Tulisan ini bertujuan melakukan review konsep kedaulatan pangan yang berlangsung di dunia internasional dan dalam kebijakan-kebijakan pemerintah di Indonesia. Hasil penelusuran menunjukkan bahwa kedaulatan pangan merupakan suatu strategi dasar untuk melengkapi ketahanan pangan sebagai tujuan akhir pembangunan pangan, karena kedua konsep ini sesungguhnya sejalan dan saling melengkapi. Hasil dari pendalaman terhadap berbagai konsep, dirumuskan bahwa kedaulatan pangan berkenaan dengan hak dan akses petani kepada seluruh sumber daya pertanian mencakup lahan, air, sarana produksi, teknologi, pemasaran, serta terhadap konsumsi. Kondisi ini dapat diukur pada berbagai level baik level individu, rumah tangga, komunitas, wilayah, dan juga nasional.</p>


2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Celsius ., Talumingan ◽  
Sherly G. Jocom

The general objective of this research is to know how much agricultural land capacity in support of food self-sufficiency in South Minahasa regency. In particular, this study aims to know the area / region in South Minahasa regency which became the basis of the carrying capacity of food security, so that the area becomes a base bias related to population increases. Adadpun benefits of this research is expected to contribute ideas for the South Minahasa local governments and agencies involved in food security in order to address land use so as not to cause problems carrying capacity of land to food self-sufficiency. Contributing of this research is to the development of economic knowledge of the area and land resources. To achieve the objectives to be achieved in the research used a method that determines the level of the carrying capacity of crop lands with the concept of combination of theory Odum, Cristeiler, E Howard and Issard. This study found that the overall average of carrying capacity of crop lands in South Minahasa Regency is 0,414. It means that existing agricultural lands in South Minahasa Regency has not been able to perform self-sufficiency and has not been able to provide adequate food.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Duni

This study deals with the question of advocacy coalition formation and maintenance, in the specific case of Food Secure Canada (FSC), a pan-Canadian alliance of non-profit organizations and individuals working together to advance food security and food sovereignty in Canada. Using theoretical frameworks from literature on the Advocacy Coalition Framework and Resource Mobilization Theory, this dissertation provides a case study of FSC. Examining food civil society organizations in Canada from the 1970’s onward, this study provides insights on the social, economic and political context that surrounded the formation of FSC as an advocacy coalition. Through review of existing reports and documents produced by FSC and 21 semi-structured interviews this project provides insights into the role of coalition building and maintenance. The study provides insights on how advocacy coalitions form, maintain unity and deal with internal differences and how they utilize resources in overcoming organizational challenges. This study also explores how FSC built consensus around its three goals -zero hunger, a sustainable food system, and healthy and safe food - between 2001-2006 and how it managed to stir its Policy Framework of food security to food sovereignty between 2006-2012. This case study, will contribute to the literatures on food policy and advocacy coalitions with a focus on the role of coalition building and maintenance in the policy making process.


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