This document discusses food security concepts, frameworks, and programs in Indonesia following the 2010 eruption of Mount Merapi volcano. It provides definitions of food security and discusses the technical and legal concepts. It outlines the complex causes of food insecurity including development programs, political and institutional environments, and decentralization. A table shows the common understanding of food security policy formulation and implementation across four districts. It discusses focusing on long-term impacts rather than just outputs and inputs through impact assessments. Finally, it questions how far increased food production actually leads to public welfare and discusses green economy as a potential approach.

1. Yacinta Esti
Green Economy and Food Security: A
Case Study for Better Governance in a
complex setting.

2. Food Security Concepts and Frameworks
Definition of food
security
Technical
concept
Hunger, Malnutrition,
Poverty The right to
Economic and adequate food
social costs Green Economy:
Welfare and Legal Concept
Sustainability

3. Food Security Programs and its Complex Setting
Development Complex
National Policy
Program Causes
Institutional
Donors
environment Decentralization
Political Institutional
Context Environment
Policy at the
Provincial Level
Legal Context
Stakeholders
Approach Policy at the
Distict Level
Program/
Food Insecurity
Impacts? Beneficiaries
Project

4. Table 1. Common understanding for Food Security Policy Formulation and Implementation after Merapi Eruption
Source: DoE, March 2011 in Yogyakarta.
Item Sleman Kulon Progo City of Yogyakarta Gunung Kidul
Specific Food reserve for vulnerable Capacity building for Income generation for Increasing food production
intervention groups (poor households farmers. households. (rice, maize, cassava).
and refugees)
Community based food Agricultural provision for
Improving farmer’s welfare self sufficiency program seeds and pesticides.
(lumbung desa).
Marketing assistance for
Diversification on food agricultural small medium
consumption program. enterprises.
Results n/a Cyber Extension. n/a Good harvest
achievement to “Carry
Rice surplus. Over Project”.
Risks to food Agricultural land conversion. 36 villages with food Small plots for agricultural Increasing population.
security insecurity status. cultivation in urban areas.
Volcanic eruption, pest Low assistance for
outbreaks impacted on crop Agricultural Input
failures. Provision Program
(fertilizer) and technology
Insufficient mechanisms for adaptation.
food distribution.
Extreme weather
Insufficient food reserve for
poor households.
Institutions Dinas Pertanian BKPP Dinas Pertanian Dinas Tanaman Pangan
involved in (Food Crops Department)
DoE

5. Food Security to A Green Economy
1. The need of an Intervention Logic
2. Focus on Outcomes and long term impact
rather than inputsand outputs: Impact
Assessment.
3. Findings for special case study:
Program Obj: Reduced proverty and hunger
Results/Inputs:
e.g:
a. achieved rice surplus of 10 mio tons in 2014
(Improved production level of rice). Program
activity : agricultural subsidy
Green Economy
as the Products
or Inputs ????
How far food production will lead to a public
welfare? Thank you