Elisha Kartini Samon, Researcher of Indonesian Farmers Union:
It will take one generation to change mindsets on local food

THE threat of a food crisis continues to haunt Indonesia and the world at large. The Food and Agriculture Organization recently issued a fluctuating price index for 2011—which rocketed beyond 2008 prices. Elisha Kartini Samon, 28, a researcher with the Strategic Studies Department of the Indonesian National Farmers Union (SPI), noted that the beginning of the year alone, the price of rice had risen by 30 percent.

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