The COVID-19 outbreak forced governments to make decisions that had adverse effects on local food systems and supply chains. As a result, many small-scale food producers faced difficulties growing, harvesting, and selling their goods. This participatory research examines local small-scale farmers’ challenges as farmers but also as consumers and their coping strategies during the month of April and one week in June 2020. The study was initiated and conceptualized in collaboration with small-scale farmer members of an existing research network in selected urban and rural areas in South Africa, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Indonesia. Participants co-designed the research, collected and uploaded data through digital survey tools, and contributed to data analysis and interpretation. A common observation across regions is that the measures imposed in response to COVID-19 highlighted and partly exacerbated existing socio-economic inequalities among food system actors. Strict lockdowns in Cape Town, South Africa, and Masvingo, Zimbabwe, significantly restricted the production capacity of small-scale farmers in the informal economy and created more food insecurity for them. In Maputo, Mozambique, and Toraja and Java, Indonesia, local food systems continued to operate and were even strengthened by higher social capital and adaptive capacities.

523 Prayoga, M.K. dkk: Preferensi petani terhadap keragaan padi (Oryza sativa) unggul untuk lahan sawah di wilayah Pangandaran dan Cilacap Abstract The object that conducted in this study is farmer's preferences of rice plant characteristics. This study was taken in 3 villages which are village Ciganjeng, village Pamotan, and village Rawaapu. The method used in this study was quantitative design with descriptive analysis. The respondents were 64 rice plant farmers. Measuring instrument used was questionnaire and interview. The result of this study showed that farmers has its own preference for the character of rice plants. Conclution of this study is farmers preferred rice plants which has an average height of plants, wide leaves, leave's surface, leave's angle, and rice straw's type; rice straw that has many branches; strong braches; has a lot rice grains; maturity of rice plants; lenght and wide grains size; non-aromatic; and tender texture. The farmers thought that leave's surface isn't an important character of a rice plants; high of plants, leave's lenght and wide, leave's angle, rice straw's type, grain's lenght and wide, and rice's scent are quite important characteristics; branch's strenght, grain's quantity, and plant's maturity are an important characteristics; resistance to pests, disease resistance, drought resistance, resistance to inundation, salinity resistance, productivity, and rice texture are the most important characteristics. Sari Objek yang dikaji dalam penilitian ini adalah preferensi petani terhadap karakter tanaman padi. Tempat penelitian dilaksanakan di 3 desa yaitu Desa Ciganjeng, Desa Pamotan dan Desa Rawaapu. Desain penelitian menggunakan desain kuantitatif dengan pendekatan analisis data secara deskriptif. Metode yang digunakan adalah survey untuk mengumpulkan data dengan mengedarkan kuisioner dan melakukan wawancara. Jumlah petani yang diwawancarai yaitu 64 orang. Hasil dari penelitian ini adalah petani memiliki preferensi tersendiri terhadap karakter tanaman padi. Kesimpulan dari penelitian ini adalah petani lebih menyukai tanaman padi yang memiliki tinggi tanaman, panjang daun, lebar daun, permukaan daun, sudut daun dan tipe malai yang sedang, cabang malai sekunder yang banyak, ketegaran batang yang kuat, jumlah anakan yang banyak, umur yang genjah, ukuran gabah yang panjang dan lebar, aroma yang tidak wangi, serta tekstur nasi yang pulen. Petani beranggapan bahwa karakter permukaan daun merupakan karakter yang tidak penting; karakter tinggi tanaman, panjang daun, lebar

It has been widely known that integrating and adopting sustainable agricultural practices can restore and maintain the health of degraded agricultural land and adapt to climate change. Azolla pinnata and Sesbania rostrata are local potential plants in paddy fields that can be used as green manures. Two paddy varieties were planted. The experiment was conducted as factorial randomized block design, consisting of green manure types (p1 = goat manure 10 t/ha, p2 = goat manure 10 t/ha + Azolla 10 t/ha, p3 = goat manure 10 t/ha + Sesbania 2 t/h, and p4 = goat manure 10 t/ha + Azolla 5 t/ha + Sesbania 1 t/ha) and rice varieties (v1 = Bangir and v2 = Inpari 41). The results indicated that the use of green manure has increased the nitrogen and organic carbon contents in the soil from 0.10% and 0.82% to more than 0.20% and 2.0%, respectively. Inpari 41 variety produced higher grain yield (4.92 t/ha) compared to Bangir variety (3.48 t/ha). These findings indicate that the suitable green manure combined with paddy varieties can improve the resilience of soil health and paddy productivity.

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