‘Food Sovereignty is Easy’
March 9, 2011
Bramantyo Prijosusilo
RECENTLY Fadli Zon, the Gerindra party politician who is also secretary-general of the Indonesian Farmers Union, claimed on his Facebook page that achieving food self-sufficiency is easy. “Just open wide areas of new rice paddy, supply fertilizers at the correct time, price and quality, give farmers sufficient capital and improve irrigation. Inevitably production wi