Year: 2020
Type: dissertation
Abstract: Indonesia has experienced the food transition from local and national to global food (Simatupang, 2016).In Indonesia as an emergently developing society, does local food represent a remained tradition that will soon be replaced by national or global food, or an alternative to such conventional food?Indeed, recently, the government policy pays more attention to local food to promote diversification of food production and consumption, local food seen as non-rice or flour that represents the national and the global food, respectively.This dissertation attempts to answer this question through two sets of geographical analyses on the regional and local scales.Following the previous study on local food activities (Ricketts Hein et al., 2006), this dissertation focuses on production and marketing sectors.It offers two main objectives, namely (1) to identify the geographical patterns of local food potentials based on local food production, and (2) to understand the constructed meanings of local food based on local food actors' practices.It also proposes eight research questions: (1) where local food potentials are distributed at the regional level concretely in Yogyakarta Special Province, (2) how these are related to the agro-ecologies that are representing the local natural conditions, ( 3) to what extent rural communities are deprived concerning the level of poverty and food insecurity, (4) how the local food potentials determine the rural deprivation, (5) what kind of critical issues appear to the producing actors in the rural villages, (6) how these issues are interrelated to their everyday experiences and practices, taking a case of the women farmers' group activities, ( 7) what meaning of localness of the products the participants construct at their practices in farmers' markets in the city of Yogyakarta, and ( 8) what kind of mechanism is in the farmers' markets related to the participants' motives.This dissertation consists of six chapters with four empirical studies.Chapter 1 is an introduction providing a brief overview of the historical changes of local food conditions in Indonesia based on a short literature review, the purposes and research questions, research methods and approaches of this dissertation, and a brief overview of the main target area.Chapter 2 identifies the two regencies, on which the local food potentials concentrate, in Yogyakarta Special Province, asking the research questions (1) and (2) (first seen as Widiyanto, 2019a).This chapter explains why the villages that really produce local food actively are not located in the potentially suitable areas of local food crops based on the agroecological zones.
Author: Widiyanto, Dodi
Institution: Nagoya University
Language: English
Subfield: Development
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDGs: Zero hunger, No poverty
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7144447780