Food Estate in Nusa Tenggara Timur, Hoping for Profit Instead Faces Loss

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Government policy enforces monoculture, violating indigenous rights and ecological sustainability. | The food estate project in NTT represents a top-down imposition of industrial agriculture that undermines indigenous food sovereignty, local livelihoods, and ecological resilience. While framed as a food security initiative, it violates cultural rights (UNDRIP) and exacerbates vulnerability by replacing diverse, adaptive farming systems with a single cash crop. The negative impacts on SDGs 2, 12,