Natural Farming System Sustainability of Paddy Fields in Morotai Island Regency

Abstract

Various parties intensively conduct the increasing awareness trend and mindset change on environmental and healthy food consumption patterns. The environmental resources damage problem, watertight agricultural land, human health, unhealthy food, contributes to global warming and in aggregate has an impact on diversity, sovereignty, independence and sustainability of food sources.Back to nature is a developed solution to overcome the negative externalities various effects. These research conducted to assessing natural paddy fields farming systems sustainability as a natural local food source in Morotai Island Regency.The analysis method using indicator basis was adapted from the Sustainability Assessment of Farming and the Environment (SAFE) model and the Farmers Sustainability Index (FSI) model on 200 respondents samples. The results explain that the natural farming system of paddy fields sustainable on economic, socio-cultural and environmental dimensions. There are assessment indicators attributes which are full local wisdom of economic, socio-cultural and environmental dimensions based on farmers and regions specific indicators in determining sustainability of paddy field natural farming system level holistically.Therefore, the novelty of these study is that the natural farming system is a world agricultural tradition that has been crushed by agricultural globalization but is still sustainable in Morotai Island Regency and has sustainability indicators which are full specific farmers and regions local wisdom.