Open AccessENHANCING CAPACITY OF LOCAL COMMUNITY TOWARDS AGRICULTURAL DROUGHT (CASE IN PLOSO VILLAGE, YOGYAKARTA)
Author(s) -
Dina Ruslanjari
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
jurnal teknosains: jurnal ilmiah sains dan teknologi/jurnal teknosains : jurnal ilmiah sains dan teknologi
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2443-1311
pISSN - 2089-6131
DOI - 10.22146/teknosains.33152
Subject(s) - vulnerability (computing) , capacity building , local community , agriculture , rainwater harvesting , preparedness , environmental planning , business , vulnerability assessment , geography , socioeconomics , environmental resource management , environmental science , economic growth , political science , psychological resilience , sociology , psychology , computer security , computer science , economics , ecology , archaeology , law , psychotherapist , biology
This paper reveals the capacity enhancement efforts for local community and assessing their vulnerability level regarding the drought event in Ploso Village of Gunungkidul Regency – Yogyakarta Special Province. The vulnerability assessment was conducted to measure the impact of agricultural drought and also focusing on enhancing the community’s absorbing capacity, buffering capacity and local response capacity. The village drought vulnerability assessment was conducted by using indicator-based calculation towards 50 family-heads of Ploso Village as the assessment samples. Absorbing capacity enhancement was conducted by facilitating and educating local farmers to conduct organic farming as well as increasing their local response capacity by focusing on rainwater harvesting, while buffering capacity enhancement is conducted by empowering the housewives for creating alternate household income The disaster preparedness community is created as the centre of intervention to educate local people about drought disaster and preparing the local teenagers to become future focal points in their area.