Vegetable Farmers and Social Innovations in Food Estate Development Areas

Collaborative Arrangements in Humbang Hasundutan, North Sumatera, Indonesia

DOI

10.2991/978-94-6463-028-2_2How to use a DOI?

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Extensification; Horticulture; Food security

Abstract

Vegetable farmers in food estate areas of Humbang Hasundutan are seeking new types of collaborations and economic opportunities in the new adaptation era. Market opportunities, however, have incurred demanding environmental, financial and labour requirements, and created trade-offs between expanding cash crops and maintaining livelihood security. There are different collaborative models between vegetable farmers and other social agents (suppliers, industries, markets, government, non-governmental organizations) have emerged. Local farmers are engaging in collective actions and pursuing different types of partnerships, which facilitate knowledge exchange and access to market niches, also helping them overcome the lack of infrastructure and logistic that have historically limited rural development in these areas. We examine the challenges and opportunities these partnerships and social innovations that have created for local farmers, who are part of heterogeneous groups with distinct roles, assets and contexts. The state, food estate program faces challenges to small-scale vegetable farmers who experienced asymmetrical relationships within their partnership with private sectors. Farmers should be pushed to be more flexibility in deciding their production arrangements, developing new farming techniques, and pursuing commercialization pathways. Despite their limited power, small-scale vegetable farmers have been able to overcome some structural barriers through innovations, entrepreneurship, and renegotiation of contract farming. Thus, their ability to engage in food estate programs provides concrete examples of the potential of governance based on collaborative arrangements to support sustainable vegetable farming systems.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Idha Widi Arsanti
AU  - Acep Hariri
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/12/12
TI  - Vegetable Farmers and Social Innovations in Food Estate Development Areas
BT  - Proceedings of the International Symposium Southeast Asia Vegetable 2021 (SEAVEG 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 3
EP  - 9
SN  - 2468-5747
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-028-2_2
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6463-028-2_2
ID  - Arsanti2022
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