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A relational turn in Indonesian food security perspectives: connecting values in land; nutritional and planetary health
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Food security debates in Indonesia increasingly extend beyond concerns of food availability; access; utilization; and stability. Environmental degradation; climate change; nutritional transitions; and competing land-use priorities highlight the need for broader perspectives that connect food systems with human and planetary well-being. This paper argues that a relational perspective can strengthen food-security analysis by emphasizing how food systems are embedded in relationships among people; landscapes; institutions; and ecological processes. Building on expanded food-security frameworks that include sustainability and agency; we examine four Indonesian policy arenas: landscape transitions in East Java; food-estate development in Merauke; school lunch programmes; and coastal protection along the North Java coast. These examples show how competing understandings of food security shape policy choices and development pathways; highlighting the importance of agency; identity; and ecological resilience in achieving long-term food security.
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sustainability
sovereignty
agency
transformation
food system
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