Health and Education Investment in the Development of Food Security in Indonesia

English

Abstract

This study aims to understand the direction of the relationship between human capital, employment in agriculture, and agriculture valueadded (agriculture performance). In developing human capital there are two main indications, namely health and education. So that in looking at the direction of the relationship between human capital and employment in agriculture, and agriculture valueadded, one can observe the direction of the relationship between education investment, health investment, employment in agriculture, and agriculture valueadded. In this study, we use secondary data from the world bank that we process and use to understand the effectiveness of human capital investment in each country and the interest of educated citizens in the agricultural sector in relation to the performance of the agricultural industry. The research period that we took was adjusted to our research period, which is from 2000 to 2019. We focused on the analysis before the covid-19 pandemic occurred to avoid biasing the analysis results with Vector Error Correction Model. We found that Indonesia has succeeded in successfully investing in education and health to improve agricultural performance. Employment in agriculture in Indonesia has shown a decline in employment in agriculture every year until the end of our research period in 2019. This is a bad indication because the continued decline in employment threatens the sustainability of agriculture in Indonesia and threatens food security. in Indonesia. To overcome this, it is necessary to understand the importance of domestic agriculture and increase the interest of Indonesia's young generation to work in agriculture and improve agricultural technology to streamline human resources in agriculture.