%0 Journal Article
%T Food Security, Development and Poverty in Indonesia: Case Study From Oelnasi Village Kupang District, East Nusa Tenggara
%A Yos Boli Sura(a)
%A Victoria Fanggidae
%A (b)Andre Medah(c)
%A Silvia Nggili(d)
%A Leo Simanjuntak(f)
%J The Interdisciplinary Journal of NTT Development Studies
%D 2010
%I 
%X The phenomenon of hunger and famine in NTT has often been seen as merely a problem of food shortage. Since natural disasters such as flood, drought and so on are considered as the main causes of this phenomenon, this kind of poverty cycle that recurs almost every year is always identically treated as natural disaster. This paper shares an unpublished research work in Oelnasi village, Kupang Regency in 2001, which explored the villagers¡¯ views on food security and poverty; how poverty emerges as a manifestation of food insecurity and what are the contributing factors to hunger and famine. Although it has been a decade since the research was undergone and several changes have taken place such as migration, environmental pressures and so on, the findings are still relevant because food insecurity and hunger remain common news in NTT today. One of the findings in this study also indicates that community resilience to food insecurity and hunger that had already been at risk, was deteriorated further by the introduction of aid and development projects, which ironically aimed at increasing their prosperity. Developmentalism as a discourse which purpose is to introduce a ¡®progress¡¯ and a face of ¡®modernity¡¯ to the community from their ¡®backwardness¡¯, can be contraproductive to their local coping mechanism system. Formal and informal institutions, whose role is supposed to bring prosperity and develop the community, habitually perceive the phenomenon of hunger and poverty as a permanent emergency therefore treated it as an emergency. This misintepretation leads to the persistence of hunger and poverty in NTT.
%K food insecurity
%K hunger
%K famine
%K development projects
%K poverty
%K land tenure
%U http://ntt-academia.org/nttstudies/Bolidkk2010