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View all search resultsFor decades, Indonesia has strived to optimize the productivity of its farmers to be able to meet the ever-growing domestic demand. The free meals program now presents a golden opportunity to pursue that ambition at a systemic scale, from farm to table, from nature to the pockets of the poorest.
The goal of attaining food sufficiency has been linked to national pride, not just in relation to Prabowo’s nationalist and populist tendencies, but perhaps also to Indonesia’s status in the past as a underdeveloped country.
We all need to wake up to this urgent need to better protect Asia-Pacific’s biodiversity, for the good of ourselves, our food security and nutritional health, our environment, and to safeguard those of our future generations.
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that only 1.7 percent of climate financing reaches local communities and smallholder groups, who contribute the least to climate change and biodiversity loss.
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