Food Justice -GROW 2014 This is the support of Oxfam Novib to the East Asia Food Justice Campaign 2011-2013.

The contribution of ON has two components:
I Support to year 1 of the Economic Justice GROW campaign in Indonesia

Indonesia is a focus country for the global OI campaign.  The global GROW campaign is aimed at helping poor women and men claim power in the way the world manages land, water and climate change,so that they can grow or buy enough food to eat  now and in the future. The operational plan formulates 5 main advocacy objectives:

1. Help to grow movements in support of good food/ food justice.
2. Stop land grabs by powerful corporations and countries, whichseize the land and water poor women and men depend upon for their food (including land grabs aimed at securing foreign food supplies, capturing water, the potential for carbon sequestration, bio-fuels, livestock feed, and speculative investment.)
3. Win a global deal on climate change that stops excessive greenhouse-gas emissions from devastating poor peoples' agriculture.
4. Invest in the productivity, resilience, and sustainability of small-scale food producers, particularly women who produce much of the world's food.
5. Avert global food price crises and provide a fast and fair response when emergencies do arise.

Following the above broad objectives the country team  Indonesia has been working hard to translate these now in a country specific  campaign. Additionally already a big number of activities were already implemented, especially in relation to the delivery of an Indonesian case to the worldwide Oxfam campaign launch document as well as the Land and power briefing paper in September 2011.

This is reflected in an Indonesia campaign plan, for which ON has promised to provide support in the form of a financial contribution as well as active participation in the EJ Campaigning working group.

Background for this support is given in the Oxfam in Indonesia GROW campaign plan with budget.


II Within this GROW campaign one major support  is planned to go to a partner: WALHI.
Walhi prepared a short proposal for the period Oct 1, 2011December 31, 2012 Securing vulnerable communities access to and control of productive land and freedom to produce food crops based on local characteristics. The Economic Justice GROW Campaign Team had identified joint activities with WALHI  in this  WALHI proposal. The project has two strategic objectives; i.e. first, it is related to improving understanding to raise discourses andpublic participation in promoting food justice in which farmers right to food and farmers protection become the mainstream governmental food policy. To achieve the target, the project will collect data on the size of farmers productive land that have been converted, and degraded productive land as a result of both badly-planned development and environmental degradation as the basis for arguments for the significance of protecting farmers in their management and from land conversion, and the basis for arguments to support food campaigns for people. It is expected that the data and the argumentative basis developed will gain widespread support for secured right to land and food. Building on the data, WALHI will develop and implement a series of campaigns at both national and international level.

Second objective is to encourage the fulfillment of secured access to and control of productive land by the vulnerable communities and of the freedom to produce food crops based on local characteristics.

The Walhi project specifically targets:

Goal: To strengthen and increase the capacity of the vulnerable groups so they are able to exercise their right to food through controlover productive land and freedom to produce food crops based on local characteristics

Strategic Objective 1: improved public understanding, discourses and participation in food justice movement. Strategic Objective 2: Securing vulnerable communities' access to and control of productive land and freedom to produce food crops based on local characteristics.
Output1: Documentation of various types of appropriation of productive land for food and environmental degradation that have forced smallholders to lose their sources of livelihood. Output 3: Indonesia's position in international forums such as ASEAN and G20 that is supportive to smallholder's access to and control of healthy and affordable food.

Output 2: Increased national and international public support for vulnerable groups so they have the capacity to access and manage food crops and to purchase food Output 4:Improved policies of the Indonesian government to protect poor people's right to food.

Support to Walhi aims at two folds. For Oxfam, this will open the political discourseon the land grabs  (Objective 2: Strengthen policy and policy implementation of national government (including regulation of private sector) to protect women and men of small scale food production from irresponsible agricultural/aquacultural investments leading to land/water grabs) and the movement building (Objective 1: Create an adequate social and political environment that enables debates, discussions, and civic actions and engagements on small scale food producers, women, and food security-sovereignty).

Oxfam is currently at its last year in supporting the Sustainable Rural Livelihood Campaign (ADS). This campaign engages the public (urban, young middle class consumers) in issues closely linked to objectives of GROW campaign, targeting at behaviour changes that relate to theethical consumerism. The support to Walhi will fill the gap on the injustices that occur in the land acquisition as well as concrete cases, which are very difficult to be approached within the strategy adopted by ADS.