Economic Journal of Emerging Markets
Volume 13 Issue 1, 2008: English Version

The Role of Woman on Household Food Security in Sleman Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta

Vini Arumsari (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
06 May 2009

Abstract

The objectives of this research are (1) to know the diversification design of food material in household level, (2) to analyze the factors that influenced the role of female in food diversification for food security reason in household level and (3) to analyze the factors that influenced the diversification design of food material in household level.The method of this research is descriptive method with the case study at Sleman Regency, Yogyakarta Special Region Province. The primary data is collected from 50 respondents of female in household level using the simple random sampling and the regression analyze with Ordinary Least Square (OLS) method is applied for the data analysis.The result shows that the diversification design of food material in household level is mainly the rice paddy which is followed by potatoes, noodles, wheat and corn. The main  factors that influence the role of female in food diversification for food security is the household income and the numbers of family dependent. Furthermore, the factors that determine the diversification design of food material are household income, product image and the number of family dependent.     Keywords: role of female, food diversification, food security, household level

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Journal Info

Abbrev

JEP

Publisher

Subject

Economics, Econometrics & Finance

Description

The Economic Journal of Emerging Markets (EJEM) is a peer-reviewed journal which provides a forum for scientific works pertaining to emerging market economies. Published every April and October, this journal welcomes original research papers on all aspects of economic development issues. The journal ...