The Increase of Private Forest's Role to Support Food Security and Proverty Alleviation (Case Study in Nanggung District, Bogor Regency) PENINGKATAN PERAN HUTAN RAKYAT DALAM MENDUKUNG KETAHANAN PANGAN DAN PENANGGULANGAN KEMISKINAN

  • Dwi Apriyanto Institut Pertanian Bogor
  • Hardjanto . Institut Pertanian Bogor
  • Yulius Hero Institut Pertanian Bogor

Abstract

Forest has a potency to support food security and overcome poverty. This study was expected to measure the contribution of private forest and design a strategy to increase the role of private forests in food security and proverty alleviation in Nanggung.The respondent consisted of 60 private forest farmers. The qualitative and quantitative approach of this study revealed that private forest contributed about 23 food plants species as household daily food support and about 35.68% as means to better income for proverty alleviation. The strategy to increase the role of private forest were: 1) to strengthen the institutional of farmer groups in the private forest for food security; 2) to provide subsidies for private forest development for food; 3) to utilize the abandoned land as private forest for food; 4) to establish business partnership in terms of seeding, planting, harvesting, and marketing; and 5) to conduct efficient forest product marketing.

Key words: Private forest, food security, proverty

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Author Biographies

Dwi Apriyanto, Institut Pertanian Bogor
Departemen Manajemen Hutan, Fakultas Kehutanan IPB, Institut Pertanian Bogor, Kampus Darmaga, Bogor-16680
Hardjanto ., Institut Pertanian Bogor
Departemen Manajemen Hutan, Fakultas Kehutanan IPB, Institut Pertanian Bogor, Kampus Darmaga, Bogor-16680
Yulius Hero, Institut Pertanian Bogor
Departemen Manajemen Hutan, Fakultas Kehutanan IPB, Institut Pertanian Bogor, Kampus Darmaga, Bogor-16680
Published
2017-01-11