The Role of Leading Commodities in Agricultural Sector on Security Food and Poverty at Food Barn in Banten Province
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- 10.2991/absr.k.210304.025How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Leading Commodities in the Agricultural Sector, Poverty, Pool Data, Simultaneous Equation
- Abstract
The purpose of this study are, first, to prove the interconnectedness of Banten and National economies. Second, to prove the relationship between poverty and food security.This study used pool data of 4 districts in Banten Province by using dynamic simultaneous equation model to analyze 2 blocks of econometric model. First block is poverty block, measured by number of poor people and income per capita of agricultural sector, and second block is food security block, measured by energy and protein consumption and rice production.The result of the study prove that the economic relationship of Banten and National is very strong. Existing poverty are significantly affected by per capita income. Food security is significantly affected by the amount of per capita income. This provides an explanation that poverty and food security have interrelated relationships. The leading commodities in the food sector that have the potential to be an alternative to support food security are corn and sugar palm. Efforts to improve food security and decrease the number of poor people through increasing rice production have become a significant way in the Banten region through maintaining rice prices that given the positive elastic price response to production in the short term but inelastic disincentives in the long run.
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- © 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Samsul Arifin AU - Sayifullah PY - 2021 DA - 2021/03/04 TI - The Role of Leading Commodities in Agricultural Sector on Security Food and Poverty at Food Barn in Banten Province BT - Joint proceedings of the 2nd and the 3rd International Conference on Food Security Innovation (ICFSI 2018-2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 144 EP - 149 SN - 2468-5747 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/absr.k.210304.025 DO - 10.2991/absr.k.210304.025 ID - Arifin2021 ER -