| Abstrak/Abstract |
This study aims to determine the factors that influence the food security of farmer
households in the Papua border region. Twelve factors used in this study are maternal education,
number of family members, price of rice, price of sweet potatoes, prices of cooking oil, prices
of instant noodles, income, area of arable land, distance of buying food, share of food
expenditure, reception of the rice for poor families (raskin), and farmer status (either local or
transmigrant). This research uses primary data from direct interviews by asking a list of questions
to farmer households in Jayapura City and Keerom District. The samples are randomly selected,
and the total respondents are 160 farmer households, then the data analyzed by Ordinal Logit
Regression. The results show that most of the household farmers classified as the food secure
condition. Partially the number of family members, cultivated land area, the share of food
expenditure and the price of sweet potato/cassava have a significant effect the probability of the
occurrence of food security for farmer households significant at the 5% level of error, while
dummy raskin significant at an error rate of 10%. The cultivated land area and dummy raskin
have a positive effect on the food security of farmer households, while the number of family
members, the price of sweet potato/cassava, and the share of food expenditure have a negative
effect on farm household food security.Introduction |
