Food Security and Human Development: Difference
between Potential and Reality in ASEAN Countries
Jakaria
1
, Justine Tanuwijaya
2
, Muhamad Yudhi Lutfi
3
{justine@trisakti.ac.id
2
}
Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Trisakti
1,2,3
Abstract. Most of the countries in ASEAN are agriculture based country such
as Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. Facts show
that the food security condition of ASEAN countries based on agriculture has a
low food security rating, while countries such as Singapore have the highest
food security ranking in the world. The purporse of this paper is to mapping
Asian food security in terms of afffordability, availability, quality & safety and
natural resources and to proof the impact of food security on human
development.The research design used is a quantitative research with
comparative performance index and panel regression. The sample used in this
study was 9 counteries in ASEAN with a time series period 2012-2020.The
findings show that the condition of food security in ASEAN countries is a
contribution from the aspect of affordability and quality and safety, while the
aspect of availability and natural resources has a low contribution. The results of
the regression panel show that the dimensions of food security that are proven to
have a significant effect on human development are affordability, quality &
safety and natural resourches, while the dimensions of availability is not proven.
Keywords: Food Security; Affordability; Availability; Quality & Safety;
Natural Resources
1 Introduction
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) place humans as the main goal of achieving
goals. Of the 17 targets for achieving the SDGs, the first five goals are closely related to
humans, namely (1) Without poverty, (2) Without hunger, (3) Having good and prosperous
barriers, (4) Having quality education and (5) Gender Equality as shown in figure 1. This
displays that development is a very important issue to be raised in research, both in the micro
and macro scope.
LePALISSHE 2021, August 03, Malang, Indonesia
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DOI 10.4108/eai.3-8-2021.2315163