Farmers Community Empowerment through Institutional Strengthening of Rural Food Barn

Abstract

Food insecurity is one of the crucial problems to solve. The research objectives are: (1) to describe the form of community empowerment farmers’ through institutional strengthening of rural food barn, (2) to explain the process of community empowerment farmers’ through institutional strengthening of rural food barn, and (3) to find out the constraints faced in the empowerment of peasant communities by strengthening institutional of rural food barn. The research was conducted in Huyula Subdistrict Mootilango Gorontalo, Indonesia, employing qualitative methods by selecting farmers who are using barns to store grain as food reserves. Data were collected through in-depth interview to the informant. The results showed that the empowerment of peasant communities by strengthening institutional food barns can be performed well based on the potential and capability of farmers. Thus the policy of strengthening institutional food barns rural effect on the empowerment of peasant communities in improving family welfare. This implies that Indonesian government still needs to strengthen institutional of of rural food barn to keep food security in broad sense.