Judul: Evaluasi Pemanfaatan Pekarangan dan Lahan Pertanian untuk Pengembangan Agrowisata di Desa Alamendah, Kecamatan Rancabali, Kabupaten Bandung.
Abstrak: Lanskap pedesaan memiliki karakteristik yang spesifik dan kaya akan sumber daya alam. Salah satu potensi yang dapat dikembangkan yaitu keberadaan lahan terbuka. Peningkatan nilai fungsi lahan terbuka perlu dikembangkan di antaranya, melalui pemanfaatan lahan pekarangan dan lahan pertanian untuk agrowisata guna meningkatkan kesejahteraan masyarakat desa dan keberlanjutan sistem pertanian. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengidentifikasi karakteristik pekarangan dan lahan pertanian, menganalisis pemanfaatan lahan pekarangan dan lahan pertanian dari aspek fisik biofisik, sosial budaya, dan ekonomi, serta membuat rekomendasi pemanfaatan pekarangan dan lahan pertanian untuk pengembangan agrowisata. Penelitian ini dilakukan di Desa Alamendah Bandung pada bulan Maret hingga Agustus 2014 dengan menggunakan metode deskriptif dan kuantitatif. Metode yang digunakan yaitu metode Scenic Beauty Estimation (SBE) untuk menilai kualitas visual pada tapak secara kuantitatif dan analisis ekonomi untuk melihat aspek ekonomi pada pekarangan dan lahan pertanian. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa Desa Alamendah memiliki potensi pada pekarangan dan lahan pertanian untuk dikembangkan sebagai objek agrowisata. Hasil dari metode SBE menunjukkan bahwa 10% pekarangan masuk dalam katergori estetika tiggi, 53.3% estetika sedang, dan 36.7% estetika rendah. Sedangkan hasil dari penilaian pemandangan adalah 37% masuk dalam kategori estetika tinggi, 40% estetika sedang, dan 23% estetika rendah. Analisis ekonomi manunjukkan bahwa komoditas pertanian memiliki nilai B/C rasio diatas 1. Potensi-potensi yang ada dapat dikembangkan menjadi sebuah konsep “Wisata Pekarangan dan Pertanian”. Pengunjung dapat menikmati keindahan lanskap desa sekaligus belajar mengenai pertanian dengan praktek secara langsung.
Keyword: Lahan pertanian, agrowisata berkelanjutan, pekarangan, lanskap pedesaan

Judul: Evaluasi potensi agrowisata di Desa Alamendah, Kecamatan Rancabali, Kabupaten Bandung
Abstrak: Region developing can cause land conversion, especially in agriculture land. The value of agriculture land can be increased by integrated usage with another related aspects such as art and local culture in agrotourism. Alamendah village has many agrotourism potencies from its nature and agriculture recources that can be developed. But, it had not been developed yet by the people, especially for local prosperity and environmental balances. The evaluation of agrotourism potency is needed with purpose to identify agrotourism potencies and former aspects, assess sustainability of community, evaluate agrotourism program and management, and make recommendation for agrotourism development. The research held in Alamendah Village, Rancabali Sub-district, Bandung district from February until July 2014 to get informations to be analyzed. Agrotourism aspects had been analyzed through agrotourism properness assessment, SWOT analysis, Community Sustainable Assessment (CSA) analysis, and preferences and perceptions analysis methods. Thus, from the analyze processes resulted the recommendation for agrotourism development at Alamendah village, such as the most suitable and potential areas for agrotourism development, potential view for agrotourism background and foreground, agrotourism development strategy, and agrotourism program and activity schedule. The final result proved that Alamendah village has a lot of potencies for agrotourism activity that can be developed with local people. The appropriate strategy to develop those potencies is make agrotourism activities and supporting tourisms being optimal for tourism activity to attract visitors, get much advantages and environment continuous.
Keyword: Bogor Agricultural University (IPB), potency, development, community sustainability, agrotourism

Judul: Mitochondrial DNA Gene Organization and Phylogenetic Relationship of Naja siamensis
Abstrak: Naja siamensis is one of Asiatic cobra in the Family of Elapidae, known as a cryptic snake. It has many morphological variations that lead to misidentification. Misidentification can cause the wrong concept in developing antivenom types due to high snakebite cases occur in Thailand. Thus, an accurate species identification using a molecular approach is crucially required. Mitochondrial DNA has been used widely in snake molecular studies. These studies were aimed to determine the arrangement of the N. siamensis partial mitochondrial genes using reptile-oriented primers and to reveal the phylogenetic relationship among other species of Asian cobra. DNA extraction was carried out based on the standard DNA salting-out protocol and was conducted by bioinformatics analysis using BLASTn and MEGA 6 software. Gene annotation was performed against N. kaouthia complete genome. A total of 3121 bp of N. siamensis mtDNA genes were sequenced consisting of partial of six regions: 16S rRNA, ND1, tRNA-Ile, CRII region, tRNA-Leu, tRNA-Gln, and COI genes. The mtDNA gene organization of N. siamensis was predicted to has a similar pattern with the common Elapidae mtDNA gene organization. This study showed that there is a monophyletic form in Naja genus and N. kaouthia is the closest species with N. siamensis based on partial 16S rRNA and ND1 gene.
Keyword: 16S rRNA, Elapidae, ND1, phylogenetic relationship