Entrepreneurship as New Approach to Support National Agriculture Development Program to Go Self Sufficient Food

Abstract

Sustainable food systems for food security and nutrition becomes international issue and also at Indonesia. There are many efforts to reach sustainable food but all activities just focus on cultivation aspect. Conversely, strategy approach that involving farmer Internal potential, called entrepreneurship has not been used as a supporting policy. The objective of this study is to disseminate a new approach to increasing agricultural production, especially food production trough Farmer Entrepreneurship. There are three empirical studies to prove that farmer entrepreneurship as new method can increase to food production. All the study was conducted on rice farming. This research used Structural Equation Model as method to analysis data and model. Based on all the results of research shown that farmer entrepreneurship has a positive effect on rice production. Based on the results, so farmer's entrepreneurship can be used as a new approach in supporting agricultural development programs to go self-sufficient food. However, these empirical tests are important to be continued at other commodity, another location with different farmers and different cultures.