<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><bold>Subject and purpose of work:</bold> Community Empowerment in Sustainable Agricultural Development and CSR (Study of spice farmers in Maluku Utara). One of the duties of the nation is to facilitate prosperity for its citizens through development. Such development is pursued by the government to reach economic growth by utilizing all agriculture potentials and by organizing community development.<bold>Materials and methods:</bold> In this study, the goals are to identify, describe and analyze the empowerment of the spice farmers’ community in Maluku Utara in sustainable agricultural development and CSR. This study is descriptive in nature and uses the qualitative approach, while data analysis relies on the Creswell’s model. Maluku Utara has a resource potential that is needed for sustainable agriculture development and CSR for community welfare.<bold>Results:</bold> Through empowerment, which involves several stages, such as enlightenment, capacity building, and enforcement, it is possible to improve awareness, capacity, skill and strength of the community to exploit all potentials. The support given to the spice farmers’ community in sustainable agriculture development and CSR is not at the maximum. Despite this support, there are factors constraining community empowerment in sustainable agriculture development and CSR.<bold>Conclusions:</bold> These constraints may come from community, a very low number of agriculture counselors, natural resource inadequacy, and also weather factors at Maluku Utara, all of which hamper the empowerment process.</abstract>

Subject and purpose of work: Community Empowerment in Sustainable Agricultural Development and CSR (Study of spice farmers in Maluku Utara). One of the duties of the nation is to facilitate prosperity for its citizens through development. Such development is pursued by the government to reach economic growth by utilizing all agriculture potentials and by organizing community development.Materials and methods: In this study, the goals are to identify, describe and analyze the empowerment of the spice farmers’ community in Maluku Utara in sustainable agricultural development and CSR. This study is descriptive in nature and uses the qualitative approach, while data analysis relies on the Creswell’s model. Maluku Utara has a resource potential that is needed for sustainable agriculture development and CSR for community welfare.Results: Through empowerment, which involves several stages, such as enlightenment, capacity building, and enforcement, it is possible to improve awareness, capacity, skill and strength of the community to exploit all potentials. The support given to the spice farmers’ community in sustainable agriculture development and CSR is not at the maximum. Despite this support, there are factors constraining community empowerment in sustainable agriculture development and CSR.Conclusions: These constraints may come from community, a very low number of agriculture counselors, natural resource inadequacy, and also weather factors at Maluku Utara, all of which hamper the empowerment process.

Empowerment of Spice Farmers Community in Maluku Utara for Sustainable Agricultural Development

Economic and Regional Studies / Studia Ekonomiczne i Regionalne

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Subject and purpose of work: Community Empowerment in Sustainable Agricultural Development and CSR (Study of spice farmers in Maluku Utara). One of the duties...

Empowerment of Spice Farmers Community in Maluku Utara for Sustainable Agricultural Development

Online veröffentlicht: 30. Juni 2020

Seitenbereich: 245 - 249

Eingereicht: 01. Feb. 2020

Akzeptiert: 01. Juni 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ers-2020-0017

Schlüsselwörter
spice farmers, development, sustainable agriculture

© 2020 Nurdewi Nurdewi et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Empowerment of Spice Farmers Community in Maluku Utara for Sustainable Agricultural Development

Online veröffentlicht: 30. Juni 2020

Seitenbereich: 245 - 249

Eingereicht: 01. Feb. 2020

Akzeptiert: 01. Juni 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ers-2020-0017

Schlüsselwörterspice farmers, development, sustainable agriculture

© 2020 Nurdewi Nurdewi et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Schlüsselwörter
spice farmers, development, sustainable agriculture