TY - JOUR
T1 - Do the state and market affect the farmer's sovereignty? Study of organic agriculture in indonesia
AU - Ningrum, V.
AU - Subroto, A.
N1 - Funding Information:
This study is supported by Universitas Indonesia (UI) research grant under the contract number: NKB-0899/UN2,R3.1/HKP.05.00/2019 and part of joint research between the Indonesia Organic Alliance, Indonesian Institute of Sciences, and Bakrie University, with the theme of “organic farming policies and 1000 Organic Villages” carried out in 2018.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2020/2/11
Y1 - 2020/2/11
N2 - Many studies reveal organic farming as an environmentally friendly way compared to conventional agriculture. However, there is a lack of social issues discussed, such as farmer sovereignty, which has a significant impact on farmers' sustainability in running their organic business and their social welfare in the long term. This paper aims to analyze whether government policies and market interventions affect the farmers' sovereignty as defined in the Nyéléni declaration. We use organic farmer surveys in 4 provinces in Indonesia, which represent coconut, nutmeg, sorghum, and rice farming. By using the Partial Least Square (PLS), we concluded that government intervention has significantly influenced the condition of farmers' sovereignty but not for market intervention. This result indicates that organic agriculture grows naturally based on nature and community. The implication is the government needs to provide capacity building for organic communities rather than by subsidizing organic fertilizers, organic seeds, and machinery as in conventional agriculture and needs to legitimate organic label guarantees from the farmer's community.
AB - Many studies reveal organic farming as an environmentally friendly way compared to conventional agriculture. However, there is a lack of social issues discussed, such as farmer sovereignty, which has a significant impact on farmers' sustainability in running their organic business and their social welfare in the long term. This paper aims to analyze whether government policies and market interventions affect the farmers' sovereignty as defined in the Nyéléni declaration. We use organic farmer surveys in 4 provinces in Indonesia, which represent coconut, nutmeg, sorghum, and rice farming. By using the Partial Least Square (PLS), we concluded that government intervention has significantly influenced the condition of farmers' sovereignty but not for market intervention. This result indicates that organic agriculture grows naturally based on nature and community. The implication is the government needs to provide capacity building for organic communities rather than by subsidizing organic fertilizers, organic seeds, and machinery as in conventional agriculture and needs to legitimate organic label guarantees from the farmer's community.
KW - Food Sovereignty
KW - Organic Farming
KW - Sustainable Agriculture
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U2 - 10.1088/1755-1315/436/1/012011
DO - 10.1088/1755-1315/436/1/012011
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85079686024
SN - 1755-1307
VL - 436
JO - IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
JF - IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
IS - 1
M1 - 012011
T2 - International Conference on Sustainable Design, Engineering, Management and Sciences 2019, ICSDEMS 2019
Y2 - 16 October 2019 through 17 October 2019
ER -