Judul: Community's Perception and Participation in Developing Food Barn in Lampung Barat District
Abstrak: Community's perception and participation is necessary to be noticed in the effort of developing food barn in rural area. The objective of this study were to: I) analyze community's perception about food barn in Lampung Barat District, 2) inventory factors that influence community's participation in developing food barn in Lampung Barat District, 3) formulate model and strategy in developing participative food barn to reach food security in Lampung Barat District. This research was conducted by using cross sectional design and descriptive analysis approach. The location was chosen by using purposive sampling which were in Tribudi Syukur Village, Sumberjaya Subdistrict and Buay Nyerupa Village, Sukau Subdistrict. The selection was based on consideration that these villages has different implementation performance of food barn according to the assessment from Food Crops and Horticulture Office in Lampung Barat District. The result of the research shows that the community's perception category, represented by farmer as sample, based on total perception variable score between Tribudi Syukur and Buay Nyerupa, is different. The general condition of the community (like age, education level, income, etc.) do not have correlation with its perception about food barn. The community's participation in food barn category, represented by farmer as sample, based on total participation variable score between Tribudi Syukur and Buay Nyerupa, is also different. There is correlation between community's perception about food barn and its participation in developing food barn activity. The factors that influence community's participation in developing food barn are tradition to store food by the community, the existence of farmer group, community's perception about food barn, the existence of regional governmental structural institution in Food Security, regulation or guidance which support food bam developing, governmental program which support food bam development, the development of food market and trading, condition of region which potentially food insecure. The priority of strategy in developing participative food barn based on the result of SWOT analysis that possible to be conducted are 1) develop community's perception to not relying on market in accessing food, 2) develop perception and community participation empowerment in creating and developing food bam based on regional condition, 3) maintain and build community's tradition of storing food from self food storing to collective food storing (in group)
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Judul: Efektivitas Komunikasi Dalam Pelaksanaan Kegiatan Penguatan Lembaga Distribusi Pangan Masyarakat(Kasus Gabungan Kelompok Tani Maju Bersama Desa Bumiharjo Kecamatan Batanghari Kabupaten Lampung Timur)
Abstrak: Government Regulation No. 68 of 2002 on food security stated that food needs fulfillment is not only the matter of production but also distribution issues, which cause many problems. The objectives of the research were to describe strengthening program of food community distribution institutional (P-PLDPM), analyze forms of communication of Joint Farmer’s Group (Gapoktan) in the program and analyze communication effectiveness of in the program. The research was designed as a descriptive and correlational survey research. The study site selection was purposively selected namely Gapoktan Maju Bersama of Bumiharjo Village, Batanghari Subdistrict, East Lampung District. Primary data collection and field observations were carried out during April to June 2012. Respondents of this study amounted to 83 farmers who know the P-PLDPM. The data used in this research consisted of primary data and secondary data. Data analysis applied descriptive statistics and Spearman Rank Correlation Analysis using Excel and SPSS 15.0 program for Windows. Gapoktan Maju Bersama have been implementing the strengthening community food distribution institutional program since 2010 up to date. The most frequent communication forms, which were performed by Gapoktan Maju Bersama management was group meeting with the field companion and farmer members.In the group meeting, a discussionalways takes place.Farmers' level of understanding on the P-PLDPM activities determined the communication effectiveness, because it could significantly change knowledgeand behavior levels.
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Judul: Posisi Filogenetik Kura-Kura Carettochelys Insculpta  (Reptillia: Testudinata)
Abstrak: Carettochelys insculpta is an endemic freshwater turtle of southern Papua and northern Australia. Phylogenetic position of this turtle is remain unresolved until now. Most of the research conducted show close relationships of C. insculpta and members of Trionychidae family. However, some of the research show distance between C. insculpta and members of Trionychidae family. This research is conducted to analyze phylogenetic relationship between C. insculpta and other members of Testudinata using 12S rRNA, 16S rRNA, and both gene as markers. DNA samples were obtained from three different organisms of C. insculpta. Two species used as outgroups were Alligator mississippiensis and Iguana iguana. Phylogenetic analysis was carried out using Neighbor-Joining method with Felsenstein 1981 (F81) modeltest. A polytomy tree of Testudinata was produced by using 12S rRNA gene. However, analysis using 16S rRNA and both genes as markers confirmed that C. insculpta was located between the Chelonidae and the Trionychidae family.
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