Local food resilience in an effort to anticipate extreme climate in small islands of the Bird’s Head Papua

Abstract

Food security and community resilience in small islands are very vulnerable to extreme climatic conditions that pass the northern shoreline of the Bird’s Head Papua. Therefore, an effort to find out what the community uses local food types in food resilience and security in times of extreme climate in the small islands of the Bird’s Head Papua. The benefit index (BI) will be used to identify local food resilience with survey and field observation using purposive sampling interviews with the local community in small islands. Development of the research laid out the highest BI value of staple foods was sukun (Artocarpus altilis), which reported 98%, thereafter to banana (Musa sp.) at 94%, sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) at 90%, taro (Colocasia esculenta) 89%, and cassava (Manihot esculenta) 87%. Vegetable crops with the highest BI value were gedi leaves (Abelmoschus Manihot) 90% and papaya leaves (Carica papaya) 85%, next off sweet potato leaves (Ipomoea batatas) 55%, cassava leaves (Manihot esculenta) 50% and pumpkin leaves (Cucurbita sp.) 45%. The highest BI values in fruit crops are mango (Mangifera indica) 70%, papaya (Carica papaya) 65%, banana (Musa sp.) 60%, and soursop (Annona muricata) 50%.