Sustainable Food Security: An Ethnobotanical Study of Dlingo Village, Grobogan Regency

Abstract

The United Nation Sustainable Development Goals were designed as interrelated guidelines for the development of a better future for all mankind. the Covid 19 pandemic related shut down of trade and the post pandemic food shortages have put increasing pressure to develop locally based sustainable food security. This food security can be found in the self-sufficient semi-subsistence Javanese village community in Dlingo, Grobogan Regency. The efficient allocation of land resources through the systematic distribution of food crops from the sawah (paddy fields), kebun (gardens), common areas, and pekarangan (home gardens), along with dietary practices that utilize locally sourced components, contribute to an ideal state of food self-sufficiency. Through semi structured interviews and field observations, all local food plant species were catalogued and categorized by taxonomy, utility and cultural significance index. The staple foods: Rice (Oryza sativa L.) (50.00), corn (Zea mays L.) (44.70), and Casava (Manihot esculenta L.) (24,30) demonstrated the highest scores reflecting both the agricultural practice of corn-rice crop rotation and the dietary habits of Dlingo village that produce sego jagung, processed corn with a rice-like texture. Traditional salads such as urap-urapan, pecel, and rujak along with traditional soups such as jangan lodeh, jangan asem, and sop still dominates the dietary habits of people from Dlingo optimizing the local fruits, vegetables, and spices further sustainably providing food security.