Abstract
The existing problems such as the poverty and malnutrition showed that food security management in Nagari Sulit Air is not sustainable yet. The research objective is to analyze the food security status of households farmers and the carrying capacity of ecological environment related to food availability. The research design used to the quantitative approached with the survey method. The result shows that nutritional status of family heads are derived thin category 19.15%, 69.15% normal, and 11.70% fat. The children with ideal weight are 37.78% and 62.22% is not ideal. The behavior resilience of households with a determinant of income (Y), farmer (X1), livestock (X2), wages (X3), consumption (X4), and capital (X5) based on the analysis of multiple regeresi model is Y = 7.868E-5 + 0.283 X1 + X2 0.367 + 0.417 X3-X4 0.557 – 0.28 X5. The availability of water in 2013-2025 predicted is 68.119.599,7 m3/year, while the demand of water in 2013 is 12.7072 million m3/year and in 2025 is 16.172.267 m3/year. The availability of land is 44.995,59 ha, the demand of land is 2.266,2 ha. The poverty and malnutrition become problems because of the other things such as the lack of education, health facilities, and inadequate infrastructure.
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