Strategi dan Kebijakan Peningkatan Pendapatan dan Ketahanan Pangan Rumah Tangga Miskin Perdesaan dan Perkotaan Di Propinsi Jawa Barat (Policy and Strategy for Income and Food Security Improvement of Rural and Urban Poor Household in West Java Province)

Abstract

Poverty has become a serious problem in this country since the emergence of exchange rate crisis in 1997. In West Java Province, population of poor people becomes even increasing over the last few years. This study aims at evaluating socio-economic characteristics of poor families and situation of food security of rural and urban poor families in this province. The study is designed as research survey with simple random sampling. For analyzing data used descriptive analysis, qualitative and quantitative. The study finds there is no different in socio-economic characteristics between rural poor families and urban poor families. The result of study shows about 35 percent of poor household spend a very high portion of income (60 per cent) on food expenditure. This group is one the most vunerable to starvation.