Program kreativitas mahasiswa-pengabdian kepada masyarakat: Pola hidup bersih dan sehat di Desa Percut Kecamatan Percut Sei Tuan

Purposes : This scientific paper is a result of the student creativity program, especially for the community service category. This program is funded by Kemenristek Dikti Republik Indonesia. This activity aims to develop a healthy lifestyle. Methods : The training used as method in this program. The object of the program was primary school students in the area of Percut Sei Tuan, Deli Serdang District, North Sumatra Province. Findings : This program resulted in a facility for hand washing in schools. The team has trained the students to wash the right hands and should cultivate them every day, both at school and at home. During the training, the students' response was quite good. Keywords : Community service, Healthy lifestyle.  Purposes : This scientific paper is a result of the student creativity program, especially for the community service category. This program is funded by Kemenristek Dikti Republik Indonesia. This activity aims to develop a healthy lifestyle. Methods : The training used as method in this program. The object of the program was primary school students in the area of Percut Sei Tuan, Deli Serdang District, North Sumatra Province. Findings : This program resulted in a facility for hand washing in schools. The team has trained the students to wash the right hands and should cultivate them every day, both at school and at home. During the training, the students' response was quite good. Keywords : Community service, Healthy lifestyle. &nbsp

Managing Oil Palm Plantations More Sustainably: Large-Scale Experiments Within the Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function in Tropical Agriculture (BEFTA) Programme

Conversion of tropical forest to agriculture results in reduced habitat heterogeneity, and associated declines in biodiversity and ecosystem functions. Management strategies to increase biodiversity in agricultural landscapes have therefore often focused on increasing habitat complexity; however, the large-scale, long-term ecological experiments that are needed to test the effects of these strategies are rare in tropical systems. Oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.)—one of the most widespread and important tropical crops—offers substantial potential for developing wildlife-friendly management strategies because of its long rotation cycles and tree-like structure. Although there is awareness of the need to increase sustainability, practical options for how best to manage oil palm plantations, for benefits to both the environment and crop productivity, have received little research attention. In this paper we introduce the Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function in Tropical Agriculture (BEFTA) Programme: a long-term research collaboration between academia and industry in Sumatra, Indonesia. The BEFTA Programme aims to better understand the oil palm agroecosystem and test sustainability strategies. We hypothesise that adjustments to oil palm management could increase structural complexity, stabilize microclimate, and reduce reliance on chemical inputs, thereby helping to improve levels of biodiversity and ecosystem functions. The Programme has established four major components: (1) assessing variability within the plantation under business-as-usual conditions; (2) the BEFTA Understory Vegetation Project, which tests the effects of varying herbicide regimes; (3) the Riparian Ecosystem Restoration in Tropical Agriculture (RERTA) Project, which tests strategies for restoring riparian habitat; and (4) support for additional collaborative projects within the Programme landscape. Across all projects, we are measuring environmental conditions, biodiversity, and ecosystem functions. We also measure oil palm yield and production costs, in order to assess whether suggested sustainability strategies are feasible from an agronomic perspective. Early results show that oil palm plantation habitat is more variable than might be expected from a monoculture crop, and that everyday vegetation management decisions have significant impacts on habitat structure. The BEFTA Programme highlights the value of large-scale collaborative projects for understanding tropical agricultural systems, and offers a highly valuable experimental set-up for improving our understanding of practices to manage oil palm more sustainably.This work was funded by The Isaac Newton Trust Cambridge, Golden Agri Resources, ICOPE (the International Conference on Oil Palm and the Environment), and the Natural Environment Research Council [grant number NE/P00458X/1]

Denial of long-term issues with agriculture on tropical peatlands will have devastating consequences

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Hubungan Pengetahuan dan Sikap Ibu terhadap Pencegahan Stunting di Desa Sei Gelugur

The purpose of this study was to find out how the attitudes and knowledge of mothers related to stunting prevention in Sei Gelugur Village in 2022. In Sei Gelugur Village the correlation (relationship) method was used for research design, and mothers of children aged 6 years and over. below as a research subject. 45 people became the sample size in Sei Gelugur Village which accommodates 450 people. Results Based on the research, most (71.2%) of the research respondents' contributions to stunting prevention were included in the "less" group in terms of knowledge (55.6%). In Sei Gelugur Village in 2022, there is a relationship between the mother's contribution to stunting prevention and the mother's level of understanding about it