TY  - JOUR
T1  - Civil Society and the Struggle for Food Sovereignty in Indonesia
AU - Bainus, Arry AU - Yulianti, D. 
JO  - The Social Sciences
VL  - 11
IS  - 20
SP  - 4998
EP  - 5005
PY  - 2016
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1818-5800
DO  - sscience.2016.4998.5005
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2016.4998.5005
KW  - Food security
KW  -food sovereignty
KW  -land reform
KW  -civil society organizations
KW  -Indonesia
AB  - Indonesia is a portrait of irony. Despite its tropical climate, abundant rainfall and fertile soil, it is one of the biggest food-importing countries. This reality urges many Civil Society Organizations (CSO) to fight for the so called "food sovereignty". We found that although they have been promoted food sovereignty at least for 17 years (since post-authoritarian era of Soeharto), still the issue merely part of the rhetoric of Indonesian government. By conducting in-depth interviews with 5 CSOs and doing literature research, we found the power of big food corporations over the government is bigger than the CSOs’ influence and the CSOs still have not developed a detailed, concrete, scalable and accredited proposal yet to be submitted to all level of agricultural programme executors, mainly the local governments.
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