Strategy of Developing Social Capital for the Attainment of Food Security for Poor Households in the Province of the Yogyakarta Special Region

This article concerns certain research on social capital and on its contribution to the efforts to attain food security. The objectives were a) to know the condition of the social capital and food security of poor households in DIY and b) to produce a model of the attainment of food security with social capital as basis in poor households in DIY. In design, it is a research and development project with a four-d model. The research sample consists of 200 poor households obtained through random sampling. The data have been collected by means of a questionnaire. They are data on the attainment of food security and the social capital possessed by poor households . The data have been analyzed descriptively and path analysis has been used in the analysis. The research results indicate that a) in DIY the social capital of poor households, which consists of socio-political participation, trust, and communication, is medium in category, b) in DIY the food security of poor households, which covers food availability, accessibility, stability, and quality, is medium in category, and c) the results of the testing of the goodness of fit on the model already meet the criteria that have been set so that the theoretical model developed fits the empirical data. The strategy to attain food security could be applied by (a) developing the trust social capital to improve the income of poor households; (b) improving the communication social capital for consumption pattern ordering among poor households, and (c) improving the participation social capital of poor households in society-related social organizations.