Abstract

There is tendency towards sustainable agricultural production to fulfill food security. It ensures that agricultural production is carried out in a sustainable way. Indonesia as developing country has rapid growing population. It will impact to the food security and food demand. That condition is challenging to develop sustainable agricultural production. Meanwhile, the sustainable agricultural production needs interaction and collaboration throughout the agricultural supply chain that involve multi-stakeholders. This study was conducted in Gemah Ripah 2 farmer group in Kuningan District which has collaboration activities with multi-stakeholders (i.e. Universitas Padjadjaran, Bank Indonesia region Cirebon, local government in Kuningan District, and Universitas Kuningan) in the development of sustainable agribusiness cluster. The sustainable agribusiness is a combination between animals (cattle, sheep, and fish), and plants (rice, shallot, chili, and secondary plants). Each subject on sustainable agribusiness (livestock and plants) is linkage and complement for each other. This study was aimed to analyze the potential of collaboration process in sustainable agribusiness cluster. Drama theory approach can illustrate the episodes that showed the dilemmas in the collaboration of sustainable agribusiness cluster, whereas a collaboration framework is used to initiatives for resolving dilemmas

Highlights

  • Agricultural is critical for both economic growth and poverty alleviation and dominated by smallholders

  • The research was conducted in Gemah Ripah 2 farmer group, Japara village, Japara subdistrict, Kuningan District trough qualitative descriptive survey

  • About 20 respondents was interviewed to grasp a deep understanding regarding the development of sustainable agricultural system in Gemah Ripah 2 farmer group, which has been collaboration with Universitas Padjadjaran, and local government

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Introduction

Agricultural is critical for both economic growth and poverty alleviation and dominated by smallholders. Smallholders are often faced with several hamper, i.e., lack of basic information, inadequate market information, high operating cost, lack of business unit, limited value added to farm production in the rural areas, etc. Development sustainable in agribusiness is about a balancing farming system, social and environment issues, and financing access. Sustainable agribusiness is one of the developing techniques that is utilization of natural resources in agricultural system to fullfill people needs and to maintain quality of ecological environment as well as it needs integration between livestock and agricultural that has linkage with all stakeholders. The relationship between stakeholders are pull factor in the agricultural and sustainable economic growth on rural areas (Pasandaran et al, 2006). Sustainable agribusiness is a phenomenon in developing agricultural supply chain, regard with it, the development of sustainable agribusiness in developing countries is exacerbated by poverty, leading to tremendous problems of employment, infrastructures and transportation, food supply chain, and environment protection (De Bon, et al, 2010)

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