In the last mid April, Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) gave a warning of a worldwide food crisis due to Covid-19 pandemic. Joko Widodo, the President of the Republic of Indonesia, immediately asked the ministers, governors, regents- mayors, and the authorized institutions to anticipate the FAO warning. In the Indonesian context, what is actually occurring and how to anticipate it?
“The food crisis occurred not due to insufficient supply, but because there were problems with distribution chain as the impact of territorial restriction to prevent the pandemic expansion,” Tejo Wahyu Jatmiko, from Indonesia Berseru Association, said when taking a role as a moderator of Terasmitra (TM) Share (or Relaxed Discussion) Volume 2, which theme was “Watch Out, Food Crisis is In Sight” on the last 24th April.
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