In Kepulauan Tanimbar District of Maluku Province, various local food is being replaced by rice which impact on change in food consumption pattern from local food to rice. A study in Latdalam Village, Kandar Village, and Saumlaki City have been carried out to assess whether rice-biased policy has an impact on the Kepulauan Tanimbar community, specifically explored on the effect to local food system. The method of the study was qualitative within case study design supported by primary and secondary data. This study found that the policy not only affect change in food consumption pattern but also threaten the existence of a local food system in Kepulauan Tanimbar community. They no longer depend on their local food system and fulfill food supply from other regions instead.

Cadmium (Cd) contamination form tailings disposal that occur in tin mining in Bangka cause a serious soil health problem. One of the ways to reduce Cd concentration in soil is bioremediation. The research was conducted to determine the influence of fungi and cattle manure on dry weight and Cd content of maize as well as fungi population in the rhizosphere of maize grown in tailing collected from tin mining area in Bangka. Green house research was set up in Factorial Randomized Block Design. Maize hybrid P21 was grown for six weeks in tailing contaminated by CdCl2.0,5H2O up to 8 mg kg -1 and inoculated with Humicola sp. or Fusarium sp. without and with several dose of cattle manure. Interaction effect between fungi and cattle manure clearly affect the rhizosphere fungal population, however did not give any significant effect to dry weight and Cd content. Application of Fusarium sp. 10 7 spores mL -1 with manure of 22 g pot -1 lead to increased fungal population. There was an independent effect of cattle manure to decrease Cd content and increase dry weight of maize.