Manufacturing Hunger: Indonesia’s Food Crisis

A version of this piece originally appeared in Manufacturing Hunger: Indonesia’s Food Crisis.

The principle of food sovereignty places local control of food production and distribution at its core. Unfortunately, throughout the world industrial farms, corporations and the policies that benefit them take that control away from local farmers and communities. In a recent report , Grassroots International’s colleagues at the Oakland Institute describe this situation and its dire consequences in Indonesia where « excessive dependence on global markets, followed by the collapse of traditional agricultural structures, as well as almost non-existent social policies, have manufactured widespread hunger in Indonesia today. »