EFEKTIVITAS PENERAPAN PROGRAM KAWASAN RUMAH PANGAN LESTARI (KRPL) DI KELURAHAN KAMPUNG DALEM KOTA KEDIRI

Household food security is a problem that must be considered so that food vulnerability does not occur due to the low independence of the community in meeting food needs. One of the efforts of the Ministry of Agriculture to meet the needs is by developing the Sustainable Food House Area (KRPL) program which is packaged through utilizing the home yard as a source of family food through planting various vegetables, fruits, tubers and medicinal plants as well as raising livestock and fish. Kampung Dalem Village is one of the villages that participated in implementing the KRPL Program in 2017. Judging from the uniqueness of this program, this research needs to be carried out to describe the level of effectiveness of the KRPL Program in Kampung Dalem Village, Kediri City. This research method uses a qualitative approach. Data analysis was carried out descriptively with data collection techniques through observation and interviews with members of the KRPL group. The results of this study indicate that the implementation of the KRPL Program has been running effectively. There are several supporting factors for the program, namely effective program targets, effective socialization methods, the ability of KRPL members to implement the KRPL program, utilization of the results of KRPL which can be felt directly by members as household food needs. Pemberdayaan masyarakat melalui program “Kawasan Rumah Pangan Lestari” (KRPL) merupakan salah satu upaya Kementerian Pertanian dalam memenuhi kebutuhan pangan. Program ini mengoptimalkan pemanfaatan pekarangan sebagai sumber pangan keluarga melalui penanaman aneka sayuran, buah-buahan, umbi-umbian dan tanaman obat serta memelihara ternak dan ikan. Ketahanan pangan rumah tangga merupakan masalah yang harus diperhatikan agar tidak terjadi kerawanan pangan akibat rendahnya kemandirian masyarakat dalam memenuhi kebutuhan pangan. Dilihat dari keunikan program tersebut, maka penelitian ini perlu dilakukan untuk mendeskripsikan tingkat efektivitas Program KRPL di Desa Kampung Dalem Kota Kediri. Karena daerah ini merupakan salah satu desa yang ikut melaksanakan Program KRPL sejak tahun 2017. Metode penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan analisis deskriptif kualitatif. Teknik pengumpulan data melalui observasi dan wawancara dengan anggota kelompok KRPL. Sedangkan analisis data menggunakan analisis data aliran (flow model), yaitu model analisis dengan teknik reduksi data, penyajian data, dan penarikan kesimpulan. Berdasarkan pengolahan data, hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa pelaksanaan program KRPL di Desa Kampung Dalem Kota Kediri sudah berjalan efektif. Hal ini disebabkan oleh beberapa faktor pendukung, antara lain tepat sasaran program; cara sosialisasi yang efektif dan masif, kemauan dan kemampuan anggota dalam melaksanakan program, serta pemanfaatan hasil program yang dapat dirasakan langsung oleh anggota dalam memenuhi kebutuhan pangan rumah tangga.

Sharing food, vulnerability and intimacy in a global pandemic: The digital art of the Chinese diaspora in Europe

This article examines the digital artworks created by three Chinese diaspora artists based in Europe: Berlin-based queer filmmaker Fan Popo’s short digital video Lerne Deutsch in meiner Küche (‘Learn German in my kitchen’), London-based performance artist Zeng Burong’s performance Non-Taster and London-based writer David K. S. Tse’s digital radio play The C Word. All three artworks were created in 2020 during the pandemic and all deal explicitly with the issues of anti-Asian racism and cross-cultural understanding. All these artworks also engage with issues of food and culinary practices. Through an analysis of the three artworks, I suggest that making digital art about food can serve as a creative and culturally sensitive strategy to engage with pandemic politics. Indeed, in an era of rising nationalism and international antagonism, diasporic Chinese artists have turned to seemingly mundane, apolitical and non-confrontational ways such as creating digital artworks about food to engage with the public about important social and political issues. This functions as a creative and culturally sensitive strategy to conduct social and political activism and to enhance cross-cultural understanding. It also showcases the political potential and social relevance of digital art for a pandemic and even a post-pandemic world.

The measurement of food and nutrition security situation in Indonesia

An appropriate analysis of the food security situation influences the decision-making and even planning of targeted intervention. Considering Indonesia’s vast area and different characteristics of each region, information on the food security situation for each region is needed for policy intervention. This paper conducted a composite analysis to obtain the food security situation of 416 districts in Indonesia. The weighting approach of nine indicators represented the three subsystems of food security, namely food availability, food access, and food utilization, was used for food security situation analysis. Of 416 districts, 81 were classified into food vulnerable region-based one a set of cut-off points used for districts classification. These vulnerable food regions were mainly characterized by the ratio between food production and normative consumption, the percentage of people living under the poverty line, and the prevalence of stunting. The information on vulnerable food regions and their underlying factors can be used as a basis for program intervention and policy formulation for food security in Indonesia. The program designed for food vulnerability alleviation should be located in the vulnerable food area and targeted to reduce those three underlying factors causing food vulnerability.

Modeling the integrated framework of water resources system considering socioeconomic development, ecological protection, and food production: A practical tool for sustainable water uses

The accelerated consumption of water resources caused by the rapid increase of population and urbanization is intensifying the negative interactions of water uses across socioeconomic development, ecological protection, and food productivity (SEF), which causes an imbalance between water supply & demand, ecological and food vulnerability, and further water unsustainability. To solve this problem, this study developed an integrated modeling framework to better identify the dynamic interaction and coevolution process of the nexus across SEF systems in the context of sustainable water uses by coupling two models: system dynamic model (SD) and multi-objective optimization model. First, the SD model is used to simulate both the dynamic interaction of each agent and the coevolution process of the whole system under external changes. Next, the multi-objective optimal model is used to generate the optimal scheme by iteration process with the initial scheme of SD, further identifying the dynamic interaction and coevolution process in terms of sustainable water use. Finally, the model uncertainty considering different weighting factors is analyzed. The framework is applied to the Upper Reaches of Guijiang River Basin, China. Results show that: (i) the rapid economic growth intensifies the ecological awareness and cannot support such rapid development because it rises the conflict between environment and economic water uses, resulting in more water shortages of socio-economy and food agent. (ii) Once the economic growth rate decreased, water resources are able to support economic development with decreased overload index and stable crop yield, which further contributes to water sustainability. (iii) The river ecological agent is the critical factor that affects the robustness of the model. (iv) The equal consideration of each water usage is the most beneficial to sustainable development. These results highlight the importance of water resources management considering the tradeoffs across multiple stakeholders and give a strong reference to policymakers for comprehensive urban planning.

Assessment of Livelihood Vulnerability of Fisherfolks in Coastal and Freshwater Fishing Communities of Ilaje in Ondo State

The study assessed the livelihood vulnerability of fisherfolks in both coastal and freshwater fishing communities of Ilaje Local Government area of Ondo state, Nigeria. Structured questionnaires were used to collect information from 200 fisherfolks from both communities. Data were analyzed using the descriptive statistics, Livelihood Vulnerability Index data were aggregated using a composite index and differential vulnerabilities were compared. The results showed that majority of the fisherfolks from freshwater and coastal communities were below 46 years old, respondents from the freshwater communities were 95% male, 5% females while all (100%) respondents in the coastal communities were male with majority assenting to fishing as their primary occupation. The freshwater communities showed greater vulnerability on the socio-demographic profile (SDP) index than coastal communities (SDP freshwater 0.49;SDPcoastal communities 0.34). Freshwater also showed greater vulnerability on the livelihood strategies component (0.45) than coastal communities (0.40). The social networks indicators were the same for the two communities. The overall health vulnerability score for freshwater communities (0.46) was higher than that for coastal communities (0.44). Also, the overall food vulnerability score for freshwater households (0.23) was greater than that of coastal community households (0.22). Freshwater households had a lower vulnerability score (0.03) for the water component than coastal communities (0.17). Based on the incidents of flooding, droughts, storms and erosion, households in the coastal communities (0.50) were more vulnerable to natural disasters than those in the freshwater communities (0.41). Overall, coastal communities had a higher Livelihood Vulnerability Index (LVI) than freshwater (0.357 versus 0.356).This logical approach may be used to monitor vulnerability, programs and resources to assist fisherfolks. Also, there should be enlightenment on how to mitigate the factors enhancing climate change while good infrastructure and aids be given to those who suffer losses due to climate change impacts.

Factors Affecting the Use of Domestic Gas in Benin: A Comparative Study of Artificial Neural Networks and Logistic Regression

The strong growth in demand for wood energy in Benin's major cities today represents a real threat to the preservation of forest ecosystems. The promotion of new alternatives such as the use of domestic gas as cooking energy could help to better cope with the adverse effects of climate change resulting from deforestation. The objective of this paper is to analyze the determinants of domestic gas use in Benin. To do so, we used data from 15,000 households collected during the Global Food Vulnerability and Security Analysis Survey of 2017. We then compared the prediction of household gas use determinants by Multilayer Perceptron Neural Networks (MLP) and classical Binary Logistic Regression (BLR). The two approaches have highlighted as important factors of the adoption of Domestic Gas in Benin, the residence department (here department of the Littoral) and the level of education. We also noted that the MLP highlighted more adoption factors than the BLR model (income, ethnicity, and number of wives of the household head). In order to increase the use of domestic gas on a large scale, the Government must put in place a policy that promotes the physical and financial accessibility (through subsidies) of the product to the large mass of the population in our cities which are still dependent on traditional energy sources such as wood fuel and charcoal in order to better protect our forest ecosystems in a sustainable manner. The Government could also strengthen the public-private partnership in this sub-sector by, for example, creating facilities for private economic operators through tax or customs exemption measures.

GLOBALIZING DESERTIFICATION AND DROUGHT PROBLEM: THE VULNERABILITY OF AGRICULTURAL LANDS IN THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM

This study focuses globally on the effects of desertification and drought on agricultural lands. Desertification, which shows more its effects from region to region all over the world and particularly on certain continents, contains factors that will disturb the human future. One of these negative factors is the risk of creating food vulnerability by directly damaging agricultural areas. The risk of desertification reducing the quality of human life and threatening other living plants and habitats is a very important issue that should be highlighted by the international system. In this context, the study draws attention to the negative impact of global desertification, as well as the reduction of agricultural and arable land and the risks of declining crop yields. Among other problems caused by desertification, the study emphasizes socio-economic instability due to migration and climate-related conflicts, world hunger and lack of grain and food. In the study, the literature on global desertification, drought and arable agricultural land was searched and selected source information from the literature is included in the study. In addition, the study was supported by maps, graphs, and tables, as well as desertification researches and analyzes. Due to the limitation of the pages, other factors, such as global warming triggering desertification, have not been addressed, and environmental issues, which are directly damaged by desertification other than arable agricultural areas, are excluded from the field of this study. Keywords: Desertification, drought, arable agriculture, food insecurity, hunger, vulnerability

Community Resilience of Mining Area and Food Vulnerability in South Kalimantan

Coal mining policies and activities in addition to having a positive impact on state income, job creation and business, also have a negative impact on ecosystems and communities in the mining area. The study was conducted in two mining communities in South Kalimantan using an emic and etic approach to explore community resilience and food insecurity due to ecological changes and the impact of mining policies and activities. Coal mining policies and activities in South Kalimantan causes catastrophic floods, land damage, and crop failure on lowland rice fields that have an impact on potential food insecurity at the household and community level. The pattern of community resilience in the two communities is in the form of social movements as a form of social adaptation, and agricultural land recovery and changing agricultural commodities as a form of ecological adaptation. The process of community resilience in the two communities is at the level of recovery towards a stable community condition, not yet at the transformation stage. Community capability is the most influential factor on the degree of community resilience so that the handling of food insecurity based on community resilience needs to be done by developing strategies to increase community capability.

Building Mosque-Based Food Self-Sufficiency Through Paddy Infaq

The essence of empowerment was to build community’s consciousness of recognizing the existing potency and to utilize such potency to deal with the problems encountered. Therefore, community empowerment is highly determined by the community itself, rather than by outsiders facilitating. This research aimed to describe concept, implementation, and output of food self-sufficiency development conducted by Geneng Hamlet people in Jambakan Village of Bayat Sub District of Klaten Regency in solving the problem faced. The research was conducted using qualitative approach. Data was explored using observation, in-depth interview, and documentation. Data analysis was conducted using an interactive technique. The result of research showed that the concept of dealing with food vulnerability during dry season was designed by submitting infaq to Al-Ikhlas mosque in the form of dry rice in each of harvest seasons. In implementation domain, this collected infaq was managed professionally through rice barn (lumbung) to be distributed to its jamaah (community) in the form of loan and sympathetic care. The output was very positive as it could suffice the need for food during dry season, people can access the resource needed, and rice barn could help the weak group and the meritorious people in Geneng Hamlet.