The Society Participation in Eco Farming at Supporting Area of Taman Nasional Gunung Ciremai Kuningan Regency (original) (raw)

Community participation in the management of land conservation areas and educational tourism at forest farmer groups, Panderman District Batu, Batu City, Indonesia

Caspian Journal of Environmental Sciences, 2024

The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted the development of agroforestry tourism areas in Batu City, Indonesia. An area becomes resilient and robust through community participation in adapting, especially in the forestry village environment. This study will reveal community participation in managing land conservation areas and educational tourism in Oro-Oro Ombo Village, Batu City. The study is a qualitative research type of centralized interview to find community participation when managing a land conservation area. In February 2022, there were 25 informants in the form of 20 members of forest farmer groups, 6 village institutions, and 4 related official institutions who were interviewed using the in-depth interview method. The interview results were collected and processed using the help of a qualitative application, i.e., Altas.ti version 9. The dissemination of interview text was propagated using an enumerator with a voice recorder help tool. The results showed that the results of data processing of the word 'Management' are the words with the most frequency, i.e., 7.43% of all research data sources community. Participation in the management of land conservation areas and educational tourism, followed by the words 'area' and 'conservation', was 6.86% of all research data sources. If concluded with four stages of participation, i.e., planning, implementing, utilizing results and evaluating the community, they were very concerned about the sustainability of conservation land management, so that they have full participation in advancing this land as a potential economic land. This example can be used as a government policy to find the best method to foster community awareness to produce excellent participation in advancing a forestry area. The advanced Forest Farmers Group will become a new face in empowering the community in the future.

The Guidelines for Development of Agricultural Areas Based on Concepts from Participatory Ecological Agriculture to Solve Environmental Problems

The Asian Conference on Sustainability, Energy and the Environment 2020: Official Conference Proceedings, 2020

The objectives of this project are to design and develop agricultural areas in accordance with the concept of participatory agriculture ecology to solve poverty and protect the environment by using the study of Landscape ecology and agriculture ecology concepts. In-depth interviews were used to explore the problems and impacts of agriculture affecting the economy Society and Environment of Wapi Pathum District Maha Sarakham Province. The key findings showed that the former agricultural area was all forest areas. The forest area was transformed into the agriculture area. This community has been doing agriculture for more than 50 years and the farmers have been using fertilizer and chemicals for a long time. This results in reduced agricultural production and environmental deterioration. Therefore, these solutions not only must add the concept of "New Theory Agriculture" to introduce to the farmers by focusing on growing a variety of plants for various uses, "Khok Nong Na Model" concept should be implemented to help enhance land and water management for agriculture activities throughout the year also. Moreover “Agroforestry” together with "Organic agriculture" will help rehabilitate the completely degraded forest area and the treatment of soil, water, and air with the ecological plants could potentially help reduce toxins in the environment also. Finally, the Principles of landscape agricultural guidelines will help to create beautiful agricultural areas, sustainable, suitable for learning resources and tourist attractions. Combining these concepts together contributes to a new type of agriculture to help and create a better quality environment.

A Participatory Perspective on Sustainable Home-yard Food Garden (KRPL) Program: Case Study of Lumbung Mataraman in Yogyakarta Special Region

https://publikasi.polije.ac.id/index.php/ProceedingICOFA/issue/view/72, 2018

Sustainable farming became more notorious after global idea of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) was introduced in 2015. In national Indonesian level, the idea was well interpreted well in one of the national programs named Sustainable Home-yard Food Garden (KRPL). KRPL program was designed to enormously sustaining productive land in household level. Furthermore, this idea was translated in local level throughout Indonesia based on the locality and spatial character. In Yogyakarta Special District, sustainable farming for limited land was constructed in Food Security Body with Lumbung Mataraman (LM) Program. This research aims to evaluate the effect of the LM program in social aspect with participatory perspective. It also to know what obstacle faced and that effort can succeed it. Method used in this research was including in-depth interview, Focus Group Discussion and intensive observation in 5 farmers group. The research was organized in different location of 4 districts and municipal. The result can be reported as three main aspects related to human resource and proper government program. The conclusion are: (a) the innovation in selecting farmer groups as beneficiary has solved the problem, but it should be supported by legal regulation made by government, (b) the preparedness of human resource and farmers group is important, in which the group should have the more effective activity and not merely project oriented group, and (c) the more sustained program is needed to measure the feasibility and viability of the program in a longer period.

Study Level Of Community Participation In Environmental Management In Fish Processing Units (Case Study: Kaliori District, Rembang Regency)

E3S Web of Conferences

Rembang Regency is one of the biggest catching fish producing regions in Central Java. Abundant marine fisheries products encourage the development of processed fish products. There are 2,740 Fish Processing Units, but most are still dominated by small and medium scale areas. Activities in the fish processing unit have a positive impact on the economy of the community, but on the side it raises new problems such as a decrease in environmental quality. Indonesia through Law Number 32 of 2009 concerning Environmental Protection and Management includes participatory principles as one of the principles in the formulation of every policy related to the environment. This study aims to analyze the level of community participation and perception in environmental management in the fish processing unit in Kaliori District. This research is descriptive qualitative. The data used are primary and secondary data. The results obtained indicate that the community's perception of environmental m...

Sustainable Agrotourism Curating by Conferring Community Involvement in Tanah Rata, Cameron Highlands, Malaysia

Journal of Design and Built Environment

The highest number of tourists' arrivals recorded in Cameron Highlands was 728, 121 people. In 2014, the number declined by 30% due to landslide events. The main question for this paper is what can be implemented into the tourism strategic planning that may benefit local communities and promote sustainable tourism development in Tanah Rata, Cameron Highlands. The lack of sustainable practice has caused the highlands to degrade and the incentives for agriculture increases in parallel with unequal benefits for locals. There are two key socio economic sustainable tourism concepts which are; community involvement in decision-making and community involvement in tourism benefits sharing being proposed in this paper. Four sets of interview questionnaires were formulated based on 4 components of respondents. Based on the results, this research highlighted that the decision-making process are to be made jointly with the government and local authority in consultation with the community representative. Amongst the recommendations is fair-trade scheme of equity in payment is for locals to benefit off tourism businesses involved in agriculture to protect their working and living environment and gain control over their future. The success of the two concepts requires commitment from all parties.

Environmental Friendly Field Tourism Management from the Perception and Empowerment of Farmers and Land Owners in Punggur Kecil Village, Kubu Raya Regency

Jurnal TEKNIK-SIPIL

Prospects in tourism especially rice field tourism are being encouraged so that rural communities become independent both financial and sectoral. The concept of a tourism village is a form of community based tourism (CBT). The concept used in CBT is closely related to empowerment. Based on the identification and analysis of the problem, the solution that can be given is to develop community-based and sustainable tourism, to avoid uncontrolled land conversion, to raise public awareness by implementing environmental-based economic management and to harmonize the understanding of land owners to farming communities in ecotourism land management sustainable fields. The problems identified from the results of the FGD are the level of knowledge, attitudes, motivation, and experience of farmers towards the establishment of ecotourism in rice fields. This research was conducted using the PRA (Participatory Rural Appraisal) approach. Several techniques for implementing PRA include: (a) histor...

Level of Community Participation in Community-Based Urban Farming Development in Banjarbaru City, Indonesia

European Journal of Agriculture and Food Sciences

Community empowerment in the field of technology and the populist economy, the use of appropriate technology (TTG) has many advantages other than saving time, being able to increase production or processed products from the business that is run and optimally by transferring technology from sources to the community through empowerment. The purpose of the study was to determine: [1] the level of community participation in the implementation of urban agricultural development in the City of Banjarbaru and [2] the factors that influence participation in the implementation of urban agriculture in the City of Banjarbaru. The study used qualitative methods to examine the participant's perspectives with an interactive and flexible strategy. Determination of the location purposively. The sampling technique is proportional random sampling. Data were analyzed using the following tests: [1] scoring method and [2] statistically to see the effect of each independent variable on the dependent v...

Analysis of Factors Affecting Community Participation Expectations on Sustainability Urban Farming in Jakarta City

International Journal of Science and Society

To meet the nutritional needs of the people of Jakarta, urban agriculture is one of the food supply solutions. This study analyzes community expectations for participation in sustainable urban agriculture in Jakarta. The latest developments of this study provide results on the impact of economic, health and environmental variables on people's expectations for the sustainability of urban agriculture in Jakarta. The novelty of this study is that it considers the theme of the study, namely the inhabitants of the city of Jakarta, engaged in urban agriculture, a total of 112 respondents. The results of this study indicate that economic, health and environmental variables, simultaneously or in part, positively influence the expectations of community involvement in the sustainability of urban agricultural activities in the city of Jakarta. Based on these findings, it can be said that the expectation of community engagement in sustainable urban agriculture in Jakarta translates into gre...

Community Participation in Integrated Natural Resource Management in Madurai District, South India – A Sociological study on Socio-Economic profile

isara solutions, 2018

The condition of the most of the farmers is horrible. Nearly 80 percent of the farmers in India belongs to Marginal(less than 1 ha) or small farmers (1–2 ha) category .The agriculture supports nearly 50 percent of the employment but contributes only 15 percent to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Everyday there is news coming on farmers suicides from different parts of the country, Madurai District in Tamil Nadu is no exception. The Indian farmer is a living idol of India, they are the most hardworking farmers around the world & always busy, working hard for their crops, during day and night. India is called the land of farmers, as most of the people of the country are directly or indirectly involved in the agriculture sector. It would not be wrong to say that ‘Indian farmers’ are the backbone of the economy and the farmers are indeed the beloved children of Mother India. Farming is the process of growing a wide variety of crops. The socio-economic conditions are remained unchanged over the past 80 years. This research paper articulates to find out the socio-economic conditions of the farmers and reason for joining the farmers club promoted by NABARD, Governmental other Non Governmental organistations to improve their living conditions by all this way, the researcher employed descriptive design collecting primary data to arrive conclusion. While analyzing the data the simple percentage analysis, cross tabulation and Likert 5 point scale had been applied. Nearly 81 per cent of farmers own less than 1 hectare where merely 19 per cent of farmers live on 2 and more than 2 hectares of the land.

Participatory Approach in Planning For Low Carbon and Eco-Village: A Case of Felda Taib Andak

Paper presented at the 8th International Symposium on Digital Earth 26-29 August 2013, Boneo Convention Centre Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia

Participatory approach in planning has becoming an important tool in planning of a sustainable community. Although participation is conceived as a malleable concept there are certain methods that planners can adopt to ensure a meaningful participation. This paper will provide some experiences and lessons on how participatory planning could be carried out with local people, the role of planners in the process of plan preparation, implementation and the outcome. This paper first explores some of the meanings of participation, the criteria of participation and the approaches of participation in planning for sustainable community. The second part is a description and discussion of how participatory approach in planning was applied in planning for low carbon and eco-village in Iskandar Malaysia based on a case study of planning of Felda Taib Andak scheme. The participatory approach involved a series of meetings, site visit and focus group discussions with representative of the Felda Village to come out with action plan and actual implementation. From focus group discussions a roadmap consisted of a vision and objectives and a dozen actions were formulated and adopted. In the process of implementation the main implementation & coordination committee was form in which the author (planner) is one of its members to look into fund raising & implementation strategies together with the local people. Several task forces or sub committees responsible to implement the dozen actions were also formed. The outcome was encouraging in which some of the actions such as planting of bamboo trees, reduction of pollution from oil palm factory and bicycling activities has been implemented and shown progress. The paper also highlights some of the issues and challenges in participatory planning.