The West Pasaman Regency was formed from division of the Pasaman Regency by Government Decree No.38/2003 dated December 18, 2003. Since 1990, the problems faced by the district is agricultural land conversion to other uses very rapidly, especially conversion of paddy fields into oil palm plantations. The passing of the Law No 41, 2009 on the Protection of Sustainable Food Agricultural Land (PSFAL) is expected to control the pace of agricultural land use change. This regulation still new so that many of its implementations have not been conducted, including the planning and its establishment. The aim of this research were: (1) to analyze public perception of the main factors affecting the sustainability of paddy land, (2) to analyze the projection needs of paddy fields at the district levels, and (3) to select areas for sustainable paddy land area on subdistrict administrative boundary. The results showed that physical factors namely availability of actual and potential land take precedence in determining for sustaining paddy land. The availability of paddy fields in the West Pasaman Region still sufficient to feed themselves for 20 years to come. There is 27,317 ha suitable area could be protected, at Barru District, with existing landuse irrigated paddy field, and 9,871 ha is potential land to be protected, with existing landuse bushes, swamps and swampy areas. The proposed protected land was divided into 3 category, focussed at suplus production area, supported by irrigated, and community acceptance, with area of 18,670 ha, distribute at several sub-districts.
Indonesia's Papua region has experienced rapid economic development in the last decade through massive investment in the agricultural sector and infrastructure development. Although the industrial agri-food has expanded in the region, Papua has the highest rank of food insecurity at the national level. This paper intends to describe a paradox in an agribusiness frontier where (food) commodity production creates food insecurity at the local level. The agribusiness development has rearranged the natural resources governance and labour relations, which, in turn, limits local communities' access to food sources and compels them to enter commodity relations in providing food. Penetration of market relations does not resolve existing food insecurity. On the contrary, it creates a new kind of food vulnerability. The analysis presented here is based on a literature review on agricultural development and primary data gathered from ethnographic fieldwork in West Papua Province in 2017.
The emergence of smoke caused by forest and land fires has very specific characteristics because most of it is on peatlands. Efforts to prevent forest and land fires are essential considering the prevalence of forest and land fires in Kubu Raya Regency, West Kalimantan Province. Therefore, this study aims to analyze the spatial pattern of spatial modelling of forest and land fire hazard areas with the Hybrid Fire Index and determine the correlation between forest and land fire hazard areas and the function of forest areas in Kubu Raya Regency. The Hybrid Fire Index method is used to weight each variable used. There are two factors that affect forest and land fire hazard areas, namely topography and human activities. Based on the results of the raster overlay analysis with the Hybrid Fire Index weighting, it was found that Kubu Raya Regency is dominated by moderate-level forest and land fire hazard areas of 654,901.50 hectares or 76.55%. The results of spatial modelling of forest and land fire hazard areas have been validated with hotspots in 2021 using the AUC/ROC curve and the area under the ROC curve value is 0.862 which indicates that the score of this model is very good. The results of the nearest neighbor analysis show that the ratio value is more than 1, which means that the distribution of forest and high-level land and forest fire hazard areas has a spreading pattern throughout the district. The results of the chi-square statistical test of the hazard area with the forest and land area functions yielded a significant value of less than 0.05 with a contingency coefficient of 0.603, which means that there is a moderate correlation between forest and land fire hazard areas and the function of forest and land areas.
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