MODEL OF EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN FARMERS IN OPTIMIZING THE USE OF YARD LAND FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF HEALTHY VEGETABLE FARMING AND INCREASING THE DIVERSITY OF COMMUNITY FOOD CONSUMPTION IN TIDAL LANDS

Abstract

The increase in population and land conversion causes limited land and weakening agricultural productivity so that an alternative is needed to answer the problem of food supply. The government has made efforts to empower women farmers to improve the use of yard land. The implementation of empowering peasant women in tidal land has considerable potential, due to the wide availability of land. The attention of meeting the needs of healthy vegetables can be supported by the availability of farmer household yard land in tidal land in South Kalimantan. This study aims to analyze the influential factors on the empowerment model of women farmers in optimizing the use of yard land for the development of healthy vegetable farming in increasing the diversity of community food consumption in tidal lands. The number of samples used was 100 samples. The analytical tool used in this study uses Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) analysis. The results showed that 88.7% of the empowerment of the farmer women's group was influenced by its exogenous latent variables, while 11.3% was influenced by other variables outside the model. While the household economy of peasant women is influenced by exogenous latent variables by 76.8%, while the remaining 24.2% is influenced by other variables outside the model. The results of the analysis of the path coefficients in the structural model show that there are 5 paths that have a significant influence. The path is between X1 (individual characteristics) to Y1 (empowerment of peasant women's groups); X1 (individual characteristics) to Y1 (empowerment of peasant women's groups), X3 (institutional role of peasant women's groups) to Y1 (empowerment of peasant women's groups), X5 (external environment) to Y2 (peasant women's household economics) and Y1 (farmer women's empowerment) to Y2 (peasant women's household economics).Suggestions that can be given are based on the results of research that to increase the empowerment of peasant women in an effort to encourage improvements in the household economy of farm women can be done through improving the quality of the characteristics of farm women, the institutional role of farmer groups that need to be encouraged to be even better, and the external environment that continues to be strengthened in order to create a cycle for the empowerment model of farm women to optimize the use of yard land For the development of healthy vegetable farming in increasing the diversity of food consumption of people in tidal lands.

Keywords

• empowerment
• tidal lands
• women farmers
• yard land