Tenancy Reform: Restructuring Land Access of Sharecropping System Toward Sustainable Farming Practice in Indonesia.

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Tenancy Reform: Restructuring Land Access of Sharecropping System Toward Sustainable Farming Practice in Indonesia. Practice of sharecropping hold a long history on farming activities throughout the world. By the time, as well as agrarian activities, sharecrop practices has evolved. Modernization and rapid development changed agrarian activities throughout the world, not exceptionally developing country such as Indonesia. Rapid development has encouraged land use change, vast number of agriculture area were converted into non-agriculture. Economic development also stimulate job creations in cities, and as a result, many people migrate outside villages to seek for job. Worsen by the instability of market price for agriculture product, people start to leave agriculture sector since it become unprofitable and no longer able to support living. Since they have other occupation, many land owner did not cultivate their land, and leased them by tenancy system. This pattern has been shifted since few decades ago, tenancy system was driven by the lack of labor from the land owner due to large farmland that made it impossible for the owner to cultivate their land by themselves.

Event: Land Governance in an Interconnected World_Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty_2018

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