STUDY ON LOCAL CONCEPT OF HOUSEHOLD FOOD SECURITY: THE CASE OF FISHERY AND PADDY FARMING COMMUNITY IN MUKOMUKO DISTRICT BENGKULU PROVINCE

Researches on food security have been more focused on the measurement of household food security, the
correlation between the attributes of households with food security as well as the determinant factors.In fact,
household food security is also about social and cultural dimensions of the local community, including its
economic dimension.Therefore, this study aimed at exploring and defining the local concept of food security. Indepth
interviews and focus group discussions conducted in the community of fishermen and rice farmers in which
15 men and women each group were randomly selected. phenomenology methods used to analyze data and
information obtained from in-depth interviews and focus group discussions.The study found that communities of
fishermen and rice farmers define food security as a concept of work.Understanding the concept of this work is
defined as an effort to produce or obtain goods for consumption, that is, food.This implied that diet diversity is also classified based on their significance in the context of when the community conduct their works. They also categorize food into three types, that is, food that must be available everyday (type I), food that should be available everyday (type II), and food that is not necessary available everyday (type III)