Abstract

<p><em>A threat to the Indonesian strategic programs in Food Security and Food Sovereignty is the degeneration of famers. Self-sufficiency in food provision has long been Indonesian national strategic programs for years though the </em><em>ongoing </em><em>significant</em><em> lost in farm households could be a call for the Indonesian local governments to find out how and why regeration of farmers is vital in maintaining the self-sufficiency.</em><em> </em><em>This critical ethnographic case study argued for social economic aspects influencing degeration of farmers to arise namely aging community ought to anricipate with multi approaches solutions. The research aims to provide deep realistic insights to degeration of farmers in Sawarna village and is expected to contribute to intellectual discourse in food security strategic responses. </em><em></em></p>

Highlights

  • This study is making the case that Indonesia has lost a generation of farmers in the agricultural rice production due to socio-economic aspects influencing views of farmer’s professionals

  • A critical ethnographic case study was conducted in Sawarna Village, famous for its reputation as granary for Banten Province located in West Part of Java Island, Indonesia

  • This study investigates certain facts in which “voice” should have been given to those excluded in the decision making cycles on a policy where they are at the receiving ends —“to give voice for the voiceless”

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Introduction

This study is making the case that Indonesia has lost a generation of farmers in the agricultural rice production due to socio-economic aspects influencing views of farmer’s professionals. The term “degeneration” of farmers used in the paper is defined as a way to explain how rice farmers leave their lands and in actual fact could be influenced by multilayer’s aspects which in turn make the degeneration issue is systemic. A critical ethnographic case study was conducted in Sawarna Village, famous for its reputation as granary for Banten Province located in West Part of Java Island, Indonesia. This research aims to identify the socio-economic aspects that encourage the growing tourism industry in the village and its impacts to in declining numbers of farmer’s professionals as a socially acceptable occupation. The developing food self-sufficiency facts in Sawarna Village are potential that could be seen from the www.scholink.org/ojs/index.php/jar possession of farm lands in the village. 63.15 percent (780 of 1,235 households) posses their own farm lands occupied approximately 10 hectares of lands per household

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