Food security policy dilemma: A new institutionalism perspective

Abstract

Food security is one out of primary concerns of national government and sub-national government for the sake of realizing national food security goal. There is a various policy has been implemented such as human capital enhancement, innovative technology, and preventing land conversion. However, the transformation of economic activity leads conversion from agricultural to non-agricultural land, thus, we analyze that there is dilemma in food security policy. This research uses new institutionalism perspective to analyze the dilemma of the policy. The national security policy could not fill the key problem of food security, where rational choice of actor is less out of the government concerns, therefore, the policy is less powerful in controlling the conversion of agricultural land.