期刊名称：The Interdisciplinary Journal of NTT Development Studies
印刷版ISSN：2085-6504
出版年度：2010
卷号：2
期号：1
页码：007-030
出版社：Institute of NTT Studies
摘要：The phenomenon of hunger and famine in TT has often been seen as merely a problem of food shortage. Since natural disasters such as flood, drought and so on are considered as the main causes of this phenomenon, this kind of poverty cycle that recurs almost every year is always identically treated as natural disaster. This paper shares an unpublished research work in Oelnasi village, Kupang Regency in 2001, which explored the villagers' views on food security and poverty; how poverty emerges as a manifestation of food insecurity and what are the contributing factors to hunger and famine. Although it has been a decade since the research was undergone and several changes have taken place such as mig ration, environmental pressures and so on, the findings are still relevant because food insecurity and hunger remain common news in TT today (Seo, 2010). One of the findings in this study also indicates that community resilience to food insecurity and hunger that had already been at risk, was deteriorated further by the introduction of aid and development projects, which ironically aimed at increasing their prosperity. Developmentalism as a discourse which purp ose is to introduce a 'progress' and a face of 'modernity' to the community from their 'backwardness', can be contraproductive to their local coping mechanism system . Formal and informal institutions, whose role is supposed to bring prosperity and develop the community, habitually perceive the phenomenon of hunger and poverty as a permanent emergency therefore treated it as an emergency. This misintepretation leads to the persistence of hunger and poverty in TT.
关键词：food insecurity; hunger; famine; development projects; poverty; land tenure
