Household Food Security Strategy In West Kotawaringin Regency, Central Kalimantan Province

Abstract

Kotawaringin Barat Regency is one of the regencies in Central Kalimantan Province, with a rice production that meets approximately 3 percent of the needs of its population of around 280,000 people in 2025. This study aims to identify factors that influence food security and formulate a family food security strategy in Kotawaringin Barat Regency, Central Kalimantan Province. The grand theory is inspired by the philosophy of welfare state benefits where the state is responsible for the welfare of citizens, especially the adequacy of quality food. This study uses a mixed-methods approach, namely quantitative and qualitative. Based on the results of the quantitative analysis, it shows that the dominant factors arefinancial asset and food distribution with a strategy of cooperation with universities, cooperation with the private sector, strengthening agricultural infrastructure, cooperation between the government and the private sector to ensure food availability, coordinationgovernment to governmentto increase food availability, improve the quality of food consumption and population nutrition, cooperationGovernment to Governmentto ensure the supply of food trade, increasing economic access to ensure food affordability, developing urban agriculture to increase the availability and diversity of food, increasing economic access to increase people's purchasing power, strengthening food institutions to ensure food stability, cooperationGovernment to Governmentto increase food availability and supply.