Priority Regions of Mitigation for Drought and Food Insecurity in Lebak Regency, Banten Province

M.H. Dewi Sus i lowati , Adi Wibowo, Dewi Susi loningtyas , Ratr i Candra Restut i

Department Of Geography, Faculty Of Mathemat ic And Natural Sc ience Univers ity Of Indones ia

Introduction

Drought as a natural disaster

Experience of drought in Lebak Regency

Region of drought and food insecurity in Lebak Regency

Priority regions for mitigation of drought and food insecurity

Literature Review

Natural drought is categorized into 4 types namely; (1) Meteorological drought; (2)

Hydrological Drought; (3) Agricultural drought; and (4) Socio-economic drought [9,10,11].

Food insecurity is a household-level economic and social condition of limited or uncertain

access to adequate food [22].

Mapping of drought and food insecurity areas compiled with Geographic Information System

(GIS) [22].

Mitigation of drought includes: (1) building early warning systems, (2) improving water

conservation,, (3) preparing drought mitigation planning, (4) public awareness [12,13].

Research Method

Data collection

Rainfall data

Land cover image

Related policy documents

Food insecurity data

Data Processing

Create drought map

Create agricultural drought map

Calculate food insecurity region

Data Analysis

Cartesian quadrant method

Overlay Analysis

Region of Drought and Food Insecurity in Lebak Regency

Priority Regions of Mitigation for Drought and Food Insecurity

Priority Regions of Mitigation for Drought and Food Insecurity

The first priority region is located inthe south western of Lebak Regency,which covers 5 districts and spreadsin 18 villages.

The conditions in quadrant I indicatethe first priority region for mitigationof drought and food insecurity

Conclusion

1. The drought region tends to be in the north (northeast) region, close to the regency capital and the south (southwest) part is relatively far from the capital;

2. The classification of rather food insecurity region tends to be in the southern part, which is relatively far from the district capital.

3. Based on the study of drought and food insecurity regions, it was found that the first priority region was concentrated in the southwestern part of Lebak Regency.

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