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 The participants of Indonesian LEAD Associate Training Cohort 14th consists of Ario Tranggono, Bayuni Shantiko, Farah Sofa, Hermas E. Prabowo, J. Indro Surono, Mujiati, Nana Agustina Dhian Ekawati, Nancy Kiay, Puji Sumedi Hanggarawati, Said Abdullah, and Tini Sastra finally were inaugurated as LEAD Fellows at 14th of August 2009. They had developed and presented a team work document, a roadmap titled “From Food Security towards Food Sovereignty”, in a workshop attended by a number of Indonesian experts on food and climate change, on August 12, 2009, at Grand Kemang Hotel in Jakarta. Three other participants of cohort 14, Asikin Chalifah, Nusya Kuswantin and Yusman Syaukat, were inaugurated as LEAD Associates.
The roadmap Towards Food Sovereignty is a ‘grand-design‘ they produced based on their so far experiences in dealing with discourses and practices at the field of food related work, enriched with intensive LEAD training under the theme of ” Food Security in Times of Climate Change” organized by LEAD Indonesia Program hosted by Yayasan pembangunan Berkelanjutan since last April 2009. After completing four months national training session in Indonesia, the LEAD Fellows & Associates of Cohort 14th will depart to Beijing for LEAD International Training which will be held on 8-14 November 2009. 
Through a series of training sessions, Cohort 14th then opted food sovereignty as their group mission as food is basic primary human needs and it constitutes human rights. Food is a strategic and political commodity of a nation. In the presentation of the roadmap they stated that the climate change issues brings additional severe impacts on the food availability as it causes the changes of planting time, calls for adaptation towards pest, flood and drought, as well as to find the right seeds in the new climate. On the bottom line, climate change demands the change in farming culture, to raise and treat new seeds varieties, to solve the new the pest and disease attacks, to manage the change in water quality and quantity, and to deal with the rising of sea level that convert agriculture land. As the implications of the new farming culture in time of climate change, human being also experience psychological impacts for human beings. Food security -- according to UU No.7/1966 Indonesian Decree regarding Food -- is defined as is the fulfilled condition of food needs for households which is reflected from the availability of food in adequate amount in term of quantity and quality, safe, evenly and accessible. While FAO (1997) defines the food security as a situation whereby all households have access, as well as physically and economically, to obtain food for the whole family members whereby households do not risk the loss of both accesses. The definitions above imply that food security covers two elements, i.e. the availability of food and the access to food or, in other words, production element and the sustainability element. 
Whereas the food sovereignty implies its meaning as a national rights and a state assurance with its four pillars, i.e. agrarian reform, sustainable farming, fair trade, and sustainable consumption. Quoting the statement of La Via Campensina international farmers movement, food sovereignty constitutes the sovereignty of the people, the sovereignty of governments/states to use their rights to stabilize their farming and food policy for their nations. In order to achieve food sovereignty, C-14 is actively implementing activities in accordance with its mission the unity of power towards food sovereignty and sustainable prosperity. Therefore C-14 has developed a common framework that will be followed up in a series of events focused on four issues of production, food stock, distribution, and consumption sectors such as: - To develop institutional safeguard mechanism to guarantee peasant production.
In light of climate change phenomenon, food supply uncertainty becomes very high. Necessary institutional adaptive strategies are needed to ensure the certainty of production and safeguarding mechanism to protect farmers from crop failures. Protection can be in a form of price buffer system provided by government and farmers community. - To develop initiatives on food reserve and food barns at regions and communities.
In order to achieve food sovereignty, the concept of community food reserve and food barn became relevant in the context of safeguarding food availability. Development of community-level barns must be built from the community level to district level. - To promote and mainstreaming sustainable and green agriculture paradigm
The existing agriculture practice does not ensuring sustainability and sovereignty of food production. We need to promote and encourage efforts to shift conventional agricultural practices to a greener, more sustainable and diverse food production through various institutions and actors (formal and informal approaches). Social and environmental movement, students are key strategic alliances that will become agents of change in the issue of food sovereignty and climate change. One of the plans is influencing national education curriculum and selecting pilot projects to promote food sovereignty. - To promote food diversification
The diversity of genetic resources of Indonesian food is neglected. In accordance with climate change, diversification of food supply is one possible solution to consumption, as a form of adaptation in the time of climate change. Diversification of food needs to be done for promoting local food production, in order to be independence from excessive consumption on rice and wheat. In the road map presentation, cohort 14 has received inputs and comments from the experts to improve the road map document, as part of a learning process, an evolving document. Among the experts who brought recommendations to road map documents were: Prof. Setijati D. Sastrapradja (Naturindo), Kresnayana Yahya (LEAD Fellow Cohort 2, ENCIETY), Chrisandini (WWF Indonesia), Dr. Kaman Nainggolan (Expert Staff of Minister of Agriculture for Information System and Surveillance), Prof. Ani Mardiastuti (LEAD Fellow Cohort 7, Faculty of Forestry, Bogor Institute for Agriculture), Dr.Ir. Djagal W. Marseno (LEAD Fellow Cohort 3, The Dean of Faculty of Agricultur  al Technology, Gadjah Mada University), Dr. Sukarno (The Body for Logistical Affairs/BULOG), Sabaruddin (The Body for Logistical Affairs/BULOG), Dra. A. Prasetyo Murniati, MA (Sanata Dharma University/National Commission on Women Rights Protection), Dr. Rizaldi Boer, MS (The Chief of The Center for Management of South East and Pacific Area Climatic Opportunities & Risks LPPM, Bogor Institute of Agriculture), Giorgio Budi Indarto (National Coordinator of Civil Society Forum for Climate Justice), Chandra Wirman (LEAD Fellow Cohort 9, Inquest Consulting), Muhtadi Sadzali (Executive Board of YPB, LEAD Fellow Cohort 1), Asianto Sinambela. LL, M. (Ministry of Foreign Affair), Norman Effendi (Ministry of Foreign Affair), Teten Avianto (LEAD Fellow Cohort 5, Lablink), Daniel Mangoting (ELSPPAT), Ade Herlina (Women Solidarity) and Witoro (Peoples’ Coalition for Food Sovereignty). The workshop itself has been a subtantial part of the training activities that challenged cohort 14 to develop a stronger road map document in the near future, beyond the training. Aside from presenting the group roadmap, the LEAD Fellows Cohort 14 are also given individual task, i.e. to conduct LEAD Associate Project which will be integrated into their daily works through the institution they are working with. Thank you to Bapak Sandiaga Uno from PT Saratoga Investama Sedaya who supported the workshop on food security, at Grand Kemang Hotel, Jakarta. And also to LEAD International for supporting LEAD Indonesia Fellows Cohort 14 to attend LEAD International Session in Beijing, China (8 – 14 November 2009. (nusya) |
