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Food is the most important commodity for both life sustenance and well-being of the society. Thus, meeting the food demand and requirement of the population is one of basic responsibilities of any government and nation. This paper uses the BPS 2008 National Socio-Economic Survey (Susenas) data and focuses on the rural households to allow a comparison with the result from the 2008 Food Security and Vulnerability Atlas (FSVA) produced by the Ministry of Agriculture. Unlike FSVA which presents district level food vulnerability, it investigates food vulnerability at household level. It shows that using food vulnerability incidence, GRDP per capita and poverty incidence, the efforts to reduce food vulnerability can be prioritized in eight provinces (East Java; DIY ; West and East Nusa Tenggara; Gorontalo ; South-East Sulawesi; Maluku and Papua). At is it important for policy-making and decision-taking to identify factors behind household food vulnerability, this study determines such factors using a binary logistic regression. |
