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Responding to food security and land questions: policy principles and policy choices in Kalimantan, Indonesia

Crawford School of Public Policy | Arndt-Corden Department of Economics | Indonesia Project

Event details

Indonesia Study Group

Date & time

Wednesday 19 August 2015
12.30pm–2.00pm

Venue

Coombs Seminar Room B, Coombs Building 9, Fellows Road, ANU

Speaker

Dr John McCarthy, Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU.

Contacts

Nurkemala Muliani
6125 5954

While the Indonesian economy has recorded strong growth over the past few decades, the country still faces an ongoing battle with food poverty. Amidst fears of new vulnerabilities, planners have formulated policies that refer to the principles of ‘food self-sufficiency’, ‘food security’ and ‘food sovereignty’ and the green economy. This paper focuses on three policy agendas with substantial implications for land use and food poverty in Kalimantan. These include an extensification scheme to open new rice estates; a program that seeks to intensify production in existing areas; and policies that involve the rapid enclosure of upland agroforest areas and their transformation into large-scale, mono-crop oil palm concessions. The paper develops a framework for mapping the implications of these different choices. It considers the alignment of these choices with food and environmental policy principles and examines their contradictory effects on food poverty and inequality.

This paper is based on research funded by USAID for the Centre for International Forestry Research.

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