Indonesia’s goal of achieving food self-sufficiency, especially for rice, might be in doubt as the country converts agricultural land into coal mining sites. Researchers for the Waterkeeper Alliance and the Mining Advocacy Network found that 19 percent of Indonesia's rice-growing land falls within exploration or mining concessions for coal. The study calculated that coal mining already costs the country 1.7 million tons of potential rice production, and another 6 million tons of current production are under threat. The loss of agricultural productivity is due to land-use change and contamination of water used for irrigation. For the full story see https://news.mongabay.com/2017/07/coal-undermines-indonesias-food-produ…