MERETAS MASALAH PERPANGANAN DI KABUPATEN ALOR: DULU, KINI, DAN MASA MENDATANG
ABSTRACT: Alor is a district
in East Nusa Tenggara Province that often suffers from food shortage. Food
insecurity experienced by farmer community is mainly related to two main
factors, namely: geography condition and accessibility of people to food
resources. Those situations have created low agricultural production, which
have their close nexus with farmers’ income. As a consequent, they seek of
getting financial assistance, whether from government or private sectors. Some
factors that are contributing to farmers low income including land infertility,
farmers possession of a small plot of land, the scarcity of productivity means
such as: fertilizers, the weather condition (dry season) and natural disasters.
Most importantly, the limited skills of farmers to make use by all resources available
factors has also impacted to food insecurity. To overcome the current
condition, any effort to establish food security mechanism through alleviation
of poverty programs is recommended, for example, the revitalization of Alor
local food. In the long run, any development of agricultural program in Alor
Island must be carried out through intensification and extensification programs
as well as accelerating aquacultural program and other alternative solutions.
Strengthening the local “adat” organizations could also help farmers in particular
to cope with the food insecurity, and to solve related major issues that link
closely with people basic needs. The data used to write this paper are based on
research conducted on September and October 2009.
Penulis: Robert Siburian
Kode Jurnal: jpantropologidd110078
