Open AccessFood Security Level of Farmer Households in Rice Field Agroecosystem
Author(s) -
Ida Rosada,
. Nurliani,
Fatma Afrianty Gobel
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.179
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/334/1/012060
Subject(s) - food security , consumption (sociology) , agroecosystem , agricultural economics , business , agriculture , descriptive statistics , food consumption , household income , quality (philosophy) , socioeconomics , agricultural science , geography , economics , sociology , mathematics , social science , statistics , environmental science , archaeology , philosophy , epistemology
Food security at the household level essentially shows the ability of households to meet the food adequacy. This ability is influenced by complex factors but generally related to socio-economic aspects, food production behavior, consumption and allocation of household resources. The objectives of the research are 1) to identify the social and economic characteristics, 2) to identify the food consumption pattern, and 3) to analyze the level of household food security based on the quality of food consumption. This research was conducted in Lanrisang Sub-district, Pinrang District, South Sulawesi Province. This research is a depth survey research in 50 farm households in rice field agroecosystem that were chosen through simple random sampling. The analysis method was descriptive analysis, farm activities analysis and food consumption quality. The results showed that the description of socio-economic conditions of farmer household is 60% low educated, 58% had < 7 years of working experience on farm, 52% have ⩾ 3 family members, 74% with the income of ⩾ IDR 1,800,000, 86% of household expenditure on food, and only 9 people (18%) have alternative job. The level of household food security of farmers in rice field agroecosystem is categorized as “food insecure.”