Food Independent Village Program is one of empowerment program that has aim to
improve the ability of rural communities in developing the productive activities based on
local resources, increased food security system (food availability, distribution, and
consumption), increase purchasing power and household food access, so as to meet the
nutritional adequacy of households, which ultimately impact on the decline in food
insecurity and poor nutrition in rural areas, it is also line with the first goal of Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs), which is to reduce poverty and hunger in the world by half
by 2015. In the process to empower community is done by four stages, namely:
preparation, growth, development, and self-reliance. The purpose of these activities is to
empower poor communities in order to realize and achieve food security system and
alleviate poverty. The target of this program is poor household in food insecurity village.
This program put poor people as the first priority.