Improving food security empowerment in Indonesia- Timor Leste border

Friendly City 4 'From Research to Implementation For Better Sustainability'

地球科学;经济学

Dewi, G.D.P.^1 ; Yustikaningrum, R.V.^1

International Relations Department, Universitas Bina Nusantara, Kemanggisan Ilir III No. 45, Palmerah, Jakarta

11480, Indonesia^1

关键词: Agriculture products;    Cross-border trading;    Determinant factors;    Educational intervention;    Field studies;    Food security;    Human capitals;    Strategic challenges;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/126/1/012127/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1755-1315/126/1/012127

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Post Referendum 1999, Indonesia and Timor Leste have a strategic challenge to provide food consistently around the border. This research intended to discover an appropriate strategy to tackle fragility of food security in the land border of Indonesia-Timor Leste, to improve collaborative actions between parties, as well as, opportunity to actualize food cross-border trading between local farmers and factories. For the result, there are two approaches will be applied. First, the empowerment term refers to the strategy of empowerment in strengthening the capability and capacity of human capital as one of the determinant factors of the resilience and self-sufficiency achievement. Second, the gender approach looks at the women and men build confidence, resilience, and independence which one of them through an educational intervention that enable the local people to manage food chain. Atambua is a region count as relatively as high poverty, poor human capital, weak quality and competitiveness of agriculture products, livestock and fishery, SMEs, and infrastructure. Thus, field study research is applied to find the actual and strategic effort aim to lead the achievement of food security and to engage Atambua over food trade to Timor Leste.