<p>The existence of candlenut forest in Maros District, today, is a successfull evidence of farmers living around the forest participation. Farmers around the candlenut forest has participated in managing that forest since 1826 to meet their subsitence need. They use the candlenut fruit to be one of their household income generating. Hence, those farmers have important roles to manage and to keep that forest sustainability. Any activity, including farmers participation, will undergo enthusiatic if there is any motivation within the person doing that activity. The research intended to identify and analize the contribution of farmers’ motivation to their participation in managing and utilizing candlenut forest. The data were collected on January-Maret 2010 in Maros District, South Sulawesi Province using some methods: questionnare list, interview, observation, and documents. The data were analyzed using (1) descriptive statistics, and (2) inferensial statistics based on SEM using LISREL 8.70 software programming. The result shows that farmers’ motivation is in the middle level, but their participation in managing and utilizing candlenut forest is categorized in low level. The Farmers’ motivation, however, has a positive contribution for increasing farmers participation in managing and utilizing candlenut forest.</p><p>Keywords: Farmers’ motivation, farmers’ partisipation, candlenut forest</p>
Department of Social affairs implemented several empowerment programs to eradicate poverty. KUBE was one of these poverty eradication programs. KUBE was infended to over-come the group weaknesses through mutual and cooperative efforts. In this relation there were some factors affecting the KUBE dynamic i.e., member characteristics, empowerment patterns, and the KUBE social environment. To optimize the KUBE empowerment, the KUBE productive business activities were classified into three categories, namely daily income, monthly income and annual income earning activities.
<p>Keberadaan kelompok tani hutan (KTH) yang tetap dinamis dan seberapa besar kontribusi kedinamisan kelompok terhadap keberhasilan KTH diperlukan adanya penguatan kelompok dalam hal ini dinamika kelompok. Tujuan penelitian yaitu untuk menganalisis dinamika kelompok tani hutan <em>agroforestry</em> dan menganalisis faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhi dinamika kelompok tani hutan <em>agroforestry</em> di Kabupaten Bandung. Penelitian dilaksanakan dari bulan Februari-April 2017. Jumlah sampel penelitian adalah 78 orang. Analisis data menggunakan <em>Partial Least Square</em><em> </em>(PLS). Kesimpulan penelitian yaitu bahwa dinamika kelompok tani hutan <em>agroforestry</em> tergolong dalam kategori rendah yaitu kelompok kurang mampu dalam menggerakkan anggota untuk mencapai tujuan kelompok. Adapun unsur yang rendah pada tujuan, struktur, pembinaan dan pengembangan, kekompakan, suasana dan tekanan kelompok, sedangkan yang kuat adalah unsur fungsi tugas dan keefektifan kelompok. Rendahnya dinamika kelompok tersebut dipengaruhi oleh rendahnya tingkatan peran penyuluh, ketidaksesuaian materi penyuluhan dan kurangnya kemitraan. Selain itu dipengaruhi oleh tingginya motivasi dan kekuatan kepemimpinan ketua KTH.</p><p><strong></strong><br /><strong></strong></p>
<p>To fullfill their household food security, farmers living at lowland areas should have high capacities in improving their productivity and income in order to have food acessibility. The use of lowland areas in South Sumatera have known and have managed by society since along time ago. Some farmers have their own land (owner) and the others don’t have any land property. Nowadays farmers at lowland areas are in difficult conditions because of the climate change impact, bio-physic and socio economic problems. Farmers at lowland areas tend to have the risk at food security. Why the household of lowland farmers still faced with insecurity risk, how the capacity level influenced it, and how the alternative strategy to increase capacity of lowland farmers household, are the problem that undertake in this research. This research used survey design to 200 household of lowland farmers at Ogan Ilir and Ogan Komering Ilir District South Sumatera Province based on landowner status. Data were collected on April-June 2010. Analyzed were performed with descriptive technique and Structural Equations Model (SEM). Conclussion of this research are: (1) food security of lowland farmers are low, the influenced factors is social environment feature, empowering process, capacity of farmers houshold and extension performance; (2) capacity of farmers househould positively influenced the food security of household; (3) the capacity of farmers household increasing may obtain by emendation of empowerment process, strengthen the social environment support, and enhancement of empowerment agriculture extension.</p><p>Keywords: Farmers household capacities, household food security</p>
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