Development of collaboration in sustainable agribusiness cluster

摘要

There is tendency towards sustainable agricultural production to fulfill food security. It ensures that agricultural production is carried out in a sustainable way. Indonesia as developing country has rapid growing population. It will impact to the food security and food demand. That condition is challenging to develop sustainable agricultural production. Meanwhile, the sustainable agricultural production needs interaction and collaboration throughout the agricultural supply chain that involve multi-stakeholders. This study was conducted in Gemah Ripah 2 farmer group in Kuningan District which has collaboration activities with multi-stakeholders (i.e. Universitas Padjadjaran, Bank Indonesia region Cirebon, local government in Kuningan District, and Universitas Kuningan) in the development of sustainable agribusiness cluster. The sustainable agribusiness is a combination between animals (cattle, sheep, and fish), and plants (rice, shallot, chili, and secondary plants). Each subject on sustainable agribusiness (livestock and plants) is linkage and complement for each other. This study was aimed to analyze the potential of collaboration process in sustainable agribusiness cluster. Drama theory approach can illustrate the episodes that showed the dilemmas in the collaboration of sustainable agribusiness cluster, whereas a collaboration framework is used to initiatives for resolving dilemmas.