Open AccessSocial capital in encouraging the food security enhancement for fishermen families
Author(s) -
T. Febrianti
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/443/1/012107
Subject(s) - social capital , food security , poverty , vulnerability (computing) , business , social mobility , consumption (sociology) , social security , socioeconomics , economics , economic growth , geography , political science , sociology , agriculture , computer security , computer science , market economy , law , social science , archaeology
One of the indicators in society poverty assessment is the realization of the families’ food security which consists of (1) the food availability for families, (2) food accessibility for families, and (3) food consumption for families. The high dependence of fishermen on the marine resources leads to income vulnerability. In such condition, social capital is often considered as a lifeline in providing food for the fishermen, both in quantity and quality. This study, which was conducted in Cipatujah and Cikalong Sub-district, Tasikmalaya, West Java Province, involved 50 samples of fishermen from each of those sub-districts. The study aims at examining the differences of the social capital as well as testing the effect of the social capital in the two sub-districts on the food security of fishermen families. To test whether there is a difference between the social capital of the fishermen in Cipatujah and Cikalong, the Mann-Whitney-Wilcoxon test is used for cases of large samples (n_1, n_1≥10), while simple regression is employed to identify the effect of social capital. The result of the study shows that there are differences in the social capital in each sub-district and there is an effect of the social capital on family food security in both Cipatujah and Cikalong Sub-districts.