Local Food Diversity is the Foundation of Food Security

The Food Estate Project must be corrected, starting with revising the food pattern indicators to be more based on local food diversity.

KOMPAS/AGUS SUSANTO

Catarina Tombay cooks local food made from sago in Zanegi Village, Animha District, Merauke Regency, Papua, Thursday (10/11/2022).

JAKARTA, KOMPAS — The program to develop a food estate, which has, instead, caused a food shortage among local communities, such as in Merauke, South Papua, needs to be evaluated. The correction can be started by revising the food pattern indicator, which has so far been biased toward rice, so that it will be based more on local food diversity.