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The Paradox of Agrarian Change - Food Security and the Politics of Social Protection in Indonesia (Paperback)
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A detailed study of the failure of poverty reduction programs in
Indonesia to reduce food insecurity. Economic growth in the
middle-income countries of Southeast Asia over the past few decades
has been widely praised for reducing poverty in both absolute and
relative terms. Indonesia is a prime example. But while poverty has
declined in Indonesia, patterns of food poverty persist across
Indonesia. What explains this troubling paradox? How does it relate
to Indonesia’s enthusiastic embrace of the “entitlements
revolution,” the use of direct cash transfers as a tool for
reducing poverty and building social inclusion? This book analyzes
the nature and social consequences of economic development and
agrarian change processes in rural Indonesia in relation to the
scope and effectiveness of Indonesia’s social protection
programs. The findings are based on a series of extensive ground-up
case studies in Indonesian communities in a variety of eco-agrarian
settings that seek to understand the drivers of food insecurity and
vulnerability at a household level. The results show that while
high-value farming, diversification, and migration may offer a
means of economic progress for poor households, opportunities for
accumulation are limited. This, the authors show, is due to the way
class, gender, and power work in remote local contexts, and the
fact that much surplus income is used for enhanced consumption and
changing lifestyles. There are few signs of the classical
structural transformation of the countryside which has historically
been considered the most decisive pathway out of rural poverty. The
authors conclude that social assistance is unlikely to counter the
persistence of rural poverty, food insecurity, and precarity in the
absence of other redistributive strategies that shift the
structural drivers of inequality.
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