The Role of Shifting Cultivation Farming Systems in Meeting Family Food Security

Abstract

This study is a qualitative study with a descriptive approach that aims to describe one by one the main topics in this article in detail. The main topics referred to in this article are the shifting farming system and family food security. The data used in this study are secondary data that researchers obtained indirectly from books, scientific articles, magazines, and other sources that are usually obtained in research. The data obtained were analyzed by stages of data collection, data selection, data reduction, and drawing conclusions. The result in this article show that the shifting farming system is basically more productive in producing food products because the newly planted land and not yet mixed with chemicals will be more fertile and produce rice or other crops of better quality and more. However, the challenge here is that the shifting farming system requires a large area of ​​land and over time the land continues to decrease. This is a disadvantage of the shifting farming system. Based on this, researchers assess that the role of the shifting farming system to meet household food needs can work well if it is only suitable for application in areas that are not densely populated.