Food security and political ecology for sustainable agriculture: some crucial notes from the ICEFS 2020

Food security and political ecology become a global issue to solve sustainably.
Rising food prices affect economic growth and stability of global food security. This paper is a
short report of the International Conference on Environmental Ecology of Food Security
(ICEFS), held on March 30, 2020, in Makassar, Indonesia. ICEFS was directly directed to
build a network between researchers and research institutions supported by the Department of
Agricultural Socio-economics, Hasanuddin University. ICEFS used the multi-disciplinary
approach is based on the knowledge and experience of scientists, researchers, practitioners, and
policymakers in discussing issue related. Keynote speakers emphasized: environmental
ecology is one of the sciences, focusing on agricultural resources conflict towards a wide range
of issues on environmental problems towards sustainable agriculture, including the issue of
global food security. Think political ecology, environment, institutional, technology, extension,
off-farms income diversification, power and interest of stakeholders, rural-urban linkage for
global food security: the shift from Fordism to Nichism. We need to concretize "what we can
do" in tracing the global food supply chain in order to feed the world. In addition, we need
strong supporting from the political will of the government to keep global food security.