WOMEN FARMER’S PARTICIPATION AND EMPOWERMENT TO SUPPORT FAMILY FOOD SELF- SUFFICIENCY
Abstract: Agricultural
development is currently prioritizing on the technical aspects and pays less
attention to human factors which resulting in low empowerment of farmers. The
patriarchal system which still prevails in rural areas causing the involvement
of women in the decision-making process is still very low, so as the importance
of empowering women in rural areas in order to make them more confident about
themselves and are able to formulate and convey the problems efficiently. The
research objectives are (1) to analyze the level of women farmers’ empowerment,
and (2) to analyze factors affecting the level of participation and empowerment
of women farmers. Data were processed using quantitative analysis supported by
qualitative analysis. The results obtained the level of women farmer’s
empowerment in medium category, the activities of Women Farmers Group (KWT)
categories of low in making decisions, increasing the additional income and
distribute production, the medium category, namely access to information and regulate
family food consumptions, and high category that aspect of utilizing their
yards. Factors that mostly affect the empowerment of women farmers are a long
time to cultivate the farm yard, the level of income, cosmopolitan level,
motivation level, intensity of interaction within the groups, the development
of technical capabilities, the intensity of the assistance, government policy
support, social environment conduciveness, interpersonal, group, behavior in
using media, planning, income utilization, and monitoring and evaluation
activities.
Author: Maya Safrina
Suraningsih, Aida Vitayala S Hubeis, Dwi Sadono, Djoko Susanto, Amiruddin Saleh
Journal Code: jpsosiologigg160032
