Food Availability, Agricultural Products And Food Consumption Pattern In Peatland Area

Abstract

Geographically, those who live in non-fertile land area are potential on being vulner& groups. Peatland can be categorized as marginal land with low fertility. Generally, this stu& was aimed to developing intervention model using food based approach, environmm (ecological apporoach) and education strategy as an effort to increase householdfoodsec~ among the community living in peatland area ("Tabat" and non "Tabat" area) in Central Kalimantan. At thefirstphase, we studied the potencies, identzfied agriculturalproducts, f d accesibility andfood availability in peat-land area, by conductingsuwey, and literature stu+ It was a cross-sectionalstudy involving households which have children under two years oldn peatland area ("Tabat'y as the subjects of the study. The 30 households were random+ selected. TheJrst stage was conducted in November - December 2008 in Kalampangm Sebangau Sub-district, Palangkaraya, Central Kalimantan.Tabat" is one of alternurfw solutions for restoration of marginalpeat land area to support economic development andfo-d security in Cenh-a1 Kalimantan. The existences of "Tabat" enable people to do fish-famiq using keramba along the canals. They can also plant trees, vegetables and fruits around d canals which may also become the habitat for some localfish. The foodproducts then can j?. used for own-consumption or for sale as source of additional income. Regarding fd consumption pattern, food which were commonly consumed by most of the children were KT, biscuits, chicken egg, chicken, lelefish, gabusfish, spinach, carrot, banana and orange