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Farmers' Household Food Security in Sustainable Agriculture Context
Abstract:
This study attempted to determine reforms in the farm households model that match the requirements of households’ food security and sustainable agriculture that can improve households’ net cash flow and sustainable farm production at once.
The farm households’ linear programming model that matches the requirements of households’ food security and sustainable agriculture (FSSA-LP model) was used to achieve the objectives of this study. Primary data collected from samples of 100 farm households in each rural area of the three provinces of Indonesia (Bali, East Java, and Yogyakarta), were used to specify parameters of the model. The application of higher technical efficiency and the methods of low external input sustainable agriculture, as well as high ecological information sustainable agriculture were simultaneously used to simulate and validate the FSSA-LP model.
The findings revealed that the application of highest technical efficiency and methods of low external input sustainable agriculture, as well as high ecological information sustainable agriculture that simultaneously resulted from sustainable farm production in the FSSA-LP model increased household net cash flow. It also offset the loss to household net cash flow that resulted from simultaneously changing the exogenous factors of the FSSA-LP model such as high credit interest rate, high current input price, low farm output, and high food price.