PUPM Program: Investment to Increase Market Access and Food Security, a Case Study on Rice-farming in Indonesia.
This paper addresses Pengembangan Usaha Pangan Masyarakat (PUPM) program implementation and its contribution to local food security. Based on a qualitative method analysis derives from a farmer, a chief of farmer group, an agricultural extension worker, and management of Toko Tani Indonesia (TTI), this research sheds light on the TTI activity, the efficiency of TTI in shortening of rice supply chain, and the program contribution in food security: food availability and food access. The result indicates that the program had definite success in shortening the supply chain, even though it still could not influence the stabilization of supply and market price. The program benefits farmers because now they can get income from rice farming and help the community at the same time because they can buy or access rice at a low price compared to the market. Taken together, the research findings highlight the importance of standardization of the crop and provide more TTI numbers with more volume, and design the criteria for the consumer to contribute to poverty alleviation and local food security at the same time.
Keywords: PUPM program, TTI, food security, rice, Indonesia.
