Improving food security? Setting indicators and observing change of rural household in Central Sulawesi

Dewi Nur Asih; Stephan Klasen

doi:10.24259/fs.v1i2.2099

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Improving food security? Setting indicators and observing change of rural household in Central Sulawesi

https://doi.org/10.24259/fs.v1i2.2099

Dewi Nur Asih

Tadulako University

Stephan Klasen

University of Göttingen

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4078-755X

Corresponding Author(s) : Dewi Nur Asih

dewi.nurasih5@gmail.com

Forest and Society, Vol. 1 No. 2 (2017): NOVEMBER
Article Published : Nov 27, 2017

Abstract

Household food security is a critical issue for Indonesia, which is investigated in this study. Many of rural household in Indonesia depends on agricultural sectors and facing challenges of global warming that threatening food security and poverty alleviation in the country. We use panel data at the household level for a sample of households living in Central Sulawesi at the rainforest margin in Indonesia. For the purpose of this study, we apply principal component analysis to develop an indicator of food security and used the index in determining the household’s condition to be persistent food secure or insecure. The findings present the fact that over the period the household’s food security in the study area has changed to better food condition. The number of people who are food insecure has declined by 23.73 % over the year. However, the results suggest that public services on health, education and infrastructure need to be strengthened, investments in access to credit and off-farm employment policies, as well as insurance programs on social protection and disaster management, need to be developed.

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food security rural households Indonesia

Asih, D. N., & Klasen, S. (2017). Improving food security? Setting indicators and observing change of rural household in Central Sulawesi. Forest and Society, 1(2), 154-161. https://doi.org/10.24259/fs.v1i2.2099

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Cavatassi, R., Davis B., & Lipper, L. (2004). Estimating poverty over time and space: construction of a time-variant poverty index for CostaRica. Working Papers 04-21, Agricultural and Development Economics Division, FAO-ESA

Food and Agriculture Organization. (1996). Food Security: Policy Brief. Available at : http://www.fao.org/forestry/13128-0e6f36f27e0091055bec28ebe830f46b3.pdf

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Author Biographies

Dewi Nur Asih, Tadulako University

Dewi Nur Asih is a lecturer at Agricultural Faculty, Tadulako University. She holds a PhD from Goettingen University

Stephan Klasen, University of Göttingen

Stephan Klasen is a professor of development economics at the University of Göttingen in Germany. He holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University and has since held positions at the World Bank, King's College (UK), and the University of Munich. His research focuses on issues of measurement, determinants, and policy implications of poverty and inequality in developing countries, with particular focus on gender inequality. Apart from his research, he has also done policy work for international organizations including UNDP, the World Bank, OECD, ADB as well as developing country governments and aid agencies. He was Co-Managing Editor of the Review of Income and Wealth from 2004-2012.