3 - Small farmers, sustainable food security and inter-sector communication in Indonesia.

Presentation Abstract
Food security has been an ongoing problem for decades and it sits now at the intersection of the multiple crises facing the world today. The current top-down industrial/commercial global agri-food system has failed to provide sustainable food security for millions of people. At the same time, small farmers all over the world continue to produce most of the worlds food on relatively little land and with little institutional support. 
In Indonesia food security policy is contradictory - reflecting two cross-cutting axes of national and international imperatives. Over the past seven years we have been conducting ethnographic research with small-farmers, farmer organisations, NGOs, researchers and government agencies. What we find is a wide variety of innovative, successful and sustainable  solutions, but with several common patterns. One of these is the need for better communication and co-operation between key stakeholders in food security policy and practice. This paper reports on this research and suggests a path forward.