SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT WITH MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING IN THE SUSTAINABLE FOOD YARD PROGRAM (CASE STUDY: SEMARANG CITY)

Population growth in Semarang City has an impact on the emergence of a food security issue and the high rate of unemployment. The Indonesian government issued a program named the Pekarangan Pangan Lestari or Sustainable Food Yard (SFY) that is expected to solve these problems through urban farming activities. However, the SFY is still experiencing many problems in the field that could threaten its sustainability. This study aims to analyze the sustainability status of the SFY program in Semarang City which consists of the Growth Stage and the Development Stage. The study is descriptive research with a survey method. The study was conducted on 130 sampling farmers in Semarang City that obtained the benefit of the program between 2020-2021. Sample determination used a proportional random sampling method. The data was collected by interview and analyzed using multidimensional scaling. Study results showed that the social, economic, and ecological dimensions of the Growth Stage are less sustainable than the Development Stage’s dimensions. The most sensitive attributes for the social dimension are farmer’s working hours and farmer’s independence. The most sensitive attributes for the economic dimension are product affordability and market demand. The most sensitive attributes for the ecological dimension are water availability and LEISA application. Improvement of sensitive attributes in those dimensions needs to be done to increase the sustainability status of all dimensions in the Growth Stage and the Development Stage of the SFY program in Semarang City

STUDY ON FOOD SECURITY AMONG FARM HOUSEHOLDS PARTICIPATING IN THE SUSTAINABLE FOOD YARD (SFY) PROGRAM IN SEMARANG CITY

Food security in Indonesia can realized when the population’s food needs are met. One of the efforts to increase food security carried out by the Food Security Agency under the Indonesian Ministry of Agriculture is implementing the Sustainable Food Yard (SFY) program or Pekarangan Pangan Lestari (P2L) in Indonesia. The SFY program utilizes yards, idle land, or empty land for agricultural activities. Semarang City includes the regions that have received the SFY program since 2020. This research aims to determine the status of food security and the role of the SFY program on the food security of farm households participating in the SFY program in Semarang City—the research conduct using a survey method on 130 farm household samples. The data collection technique is in the form of interviews using a 24-hour food recall questionnaire. The data obtained was then processed using cross-tabulation analysis between energy sufficiency percentage and food expenditure shared with the Microsoft Excel application to determine the food security status of farm households. The role of the SFY program on the food security of participating farm households was analyzed descriptively. The research results show that the distribution of food security status of farm households participating in the SFY program in Semarang City is 88.46 percent food secure, 3.08 percent vulnerable, and 8.46 percent questionable. The role of the SFY program in the food security of farm households is not very significant in increasing energy consumption and reducing household food expenditure